It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you, Madam, on your election as President of the General Assembly. The Romanian delegation looks forward to a presidency which brings to the world Organization excellent diplomatic skills, while increasing our confidence in the prospects for more balanced g…
I wish to express my deep appreciation to President Eliasson for his inspired and persistent efforts to schedule this plenary debate before the summer break. He was right to do so, as Security Council reform is part and parcel of the comprehensive vision for change set out by our leaders at the Unit…
I should like to make only a few nationally specific comments, since the Federal Minister of Austria, speaking on behalf of the European Union, also spoke for Romania.
First, I have the sad duty to pay tribute to the memory of someone who could have continued to contribute immensely to the common s…
Let me thank you, Sir, and the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Daudi Mwakawago, for his eloquent presentation a few minutes ago.
Of course, I wish to commend the United Nations mission teams in Sierra Leone for their dedication and resilience over the past six years in advanci…
We are grateful for your initiative, Mr. President, to convene this timely briefing. I would like to join other members of the Council in thanking Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland for his comprehensive presentation.
The humanitarian challenges facing the African continent have once again called …
It is not without a certain sense of sorrow that I proceed with the presentation of the discharge reports as outgoing Chairman of the 1518 and 1540 Committees of the Security Council, all the more so since for once, this afternoon, the action does not really seem to be in this Council.
Both Committ…
I am pleased to begin by welcoming to this Chamber the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), as well as their Chief Prosecutors, and by thanking them for their very thorough presentations on the e…
I should like to start by commending your presidency, Sir, for convening this open debate and for its unflagging dedication to the topic at hand.
Allow me to point out that Romania associates itself with the statement soon to be made by you on behalf of the European Union.
In my turn, I would cert…
First of all, I wish to associate myself fully with the statement made by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in his capacity as President of the European Union (EU). I also wish to thank Lord Ashdown for his very interesting briefing, which serves to supplement a very instructive and comprehensive…
In joining our Multinational Force (MNF) partners in sponsoring the resolution, Romania had in view, first of all, the letter received by the President of the Security Council from the Iraqi Government, requesting the extension of the mandates of the MNF, the International Advisory and Monitoring Bo…
Romania joins and fully supports the statement to be delivered by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
I wish to take the floor in my national capacity, as Romania experienced the Holocaust directly and has recently taken a series of steps to assume and come to …
I would like to add Romania’s voice to those who have warmly congratulated His Excellency Mr. Jan Eliasson on his election to the important position of President of the General Assembly. We wish him every success and assure him of our full support.
For Romania, the political debates at the sixtieth…
My delegation is gratified by your presence, Sir, in the chair of the Security Council. I must say that the Council summit held recently under the Philippines presidency made a powerful impression on us. I wish to congratulate you on arranging a timely — and, I trust, rewarding — discussion on the p…
My delegation, too, commends Chairman Volcker and his team for the impressive work carried out in record time to review the management of the oil-for-food programme, the most complex humanitarian programme ever entrusted to and managed by the United Nations.
In April 2004, the Council proceeded to …
I wish first to welcome Japan’s initiative to convene this timely debate on the situation in Afghanistan. More generally, Japan is to be congratulated on its significant contribution to the overall international efforts aimed at establishing lasting peace in Afghanistan, and in particular on its not…
On behalf of the Romanian delegation to the Security Council, I am particularly honoured to warmly welcome the new Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, Ambassador John Bolton. It is our determination to continue our close cooperation with the United States …
Allow me to say first that, as an acceding country to the European Union, Romania aligns itself with the statement to be made shortly on behalf of the Union by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom. My remarks will therefore be brief.
Before anything else, I wish to join other speakers…
I should like now to address the Council in my national capacity.
First, Romania fully supports the European Union statement, to be delivered later by our colleague, Sir Emyr Jones Parry. In addition, I wish to make the following specific brief comments.
Romania welcomes the emerging practice wher…
I would like to begin by commending you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1308 (2000). I also wish to express our thanks to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-
Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and to Dr. Peter Piot, Executiv…
Mr. Minister, my delegation feels honoured by your presence at the helm of the Security Council. I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on arranging a discussion on a theme that will allow for the productive consideration of ways to improve the role of the Security Council in humanitarian crises. It…
