After 11 years if paralysis, reforming the composition of the Security Council took on unprecedented momentum in the first half of 2005. Even the Secretary-General became involved. In his report entitled “In larger freedom” (A/59/2005), he proposed that a decision regarding the composition of the Co…
Peru strongly deplores the escalation of violence and the loss of innocent human life in the
Middle East. It is essential that the parties involved immediately cease all belligerent actions so that a climate of peace can be restored in the region and dialogue and negotiation can be pursued. That wi…
Peru abstained in the voting because it believes that the draft resolution does not adequately reflect what is happening in the Middle East.
First, the draft resolution does not take account of the fact that elements of Hizbollah, considered a terrorist organization, have kidnapped two Israeli sold…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Angela Kane for the valuable information she shared with us.
My delegation regrets the escalation of armed violence between Israel and the Hamas-led Government of the Palestinian Authority. We condemn the unnecessary and provocative military operati…
At the outset, I should like to thank the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Jan Egeland, for his frank and comprehensive briefing. Mr. Egeland has told us that a peacekeeping operation will be judged according to its ability to protect, and we fully agree with that view.
One of the m…
We welcome your presence here today, Sir, to guide our debate, and we commend Denmark for the excellent job that it has been doing in presiding over the work of the Security Council. We also welcome your initiative to convene this open debate on the rule of law and the maintenance of international p…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jessen-Petersen, for his presentation of the report on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) during the first months of the year. With the announcement of his upcoming retirement from tha…
We would like at the outset to welcome Mr. Ian Martin, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and to thank him for his briefing. We would like also to thank Ambassador Guterres for his briefing on behalf of Minister Ramos-Horta.
Peru regrets the violent incidents that have taken place in recen…
I wish to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the two Tribunals for the detailed and comprehensive reports presented on the work carried out over the past six months.
Peru holds a firm position of respect for international law, defence of human rights and opposition to impunity. Those are t…
Allow me, first of all, to say that Peru associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Guyana on behalf of the Rio Group.
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for the documents he has presented to us, which have served as the basis for the various deliberations we have …
My delegation wishes to thank Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj, Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), Ambassador César Mayoral, Chairman of the 1267 Committee, and Ambassador Peter Burian, Chairman of the 1540 Committee, for their briefings. We would like to commend them for the work they ar…
Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on the effective manner in which your country is guiding the work of the Security Council this month.
According to information provided by the United Nations and humanitarian organizations, more than 180,000 persons have died in Darfur since October 2003 …
My delegation welcomes Mr. José Ramos-Horta, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Timor-Leste, and thanks him for his comprehensive and frank briefing on the situation in his country. I also wish to thank Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Timor-Leste, for the imp…
My delegation would like to join in the expressions of gratitude to the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, for his detailed briefing on the situation in that country. Peru congratulates him on his appointment…
My delegation could not have imagined that, after the last few days of last week, we would be discussing the Middle East and that we could accept such an open discussion in the Security Council. We could not have expected that we would be confronting an act of terrorism, and yet that is the case.
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I wish to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for his briefing on developments in the Middle East last month.
Regarding the statement to be made in this meeting by the Non-Aligned group, we wish to note that that statement does not reflect Peru’s position, which is the position of the Quartet con…
For me, it is a pleasure to thank you, Mr. Minister, for the brilliant leadership shown by the Argentine Republic in the presidency of the Security Council. The initiative to convene this open debate on the situation in Haiti reaffirms the priority that we accord to the resolution of this crisis. I …
I should like to convey the greetings of the Government of Peru and to congratulate you, Sir, and the Argentine delegation on the efficient manner in which you have presided over the Security Council this month. I should also like to thank you for your initiative of convening an open debate on small…
Peru welcomes Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, and congratulates her on having restored democracy in her country and on her election as the first woman President of an African country.
Her election as President of Liberia is a demonstration of the progress that can be achieved when…
Peru voted in favour of draft resolution A/60/L.48 because human rights are a decisive factor in our foreign policy. Without respect for and protection of human rights, there is no human civilization, for they are at the epicentre.
Peru has participated in the Commission on Human Rights as a member…
