First, it is my pleasure to welcome you, Sir, and to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month. I also take this opportunity to thank Ambassador De La Sablière and his team for their outstanding performance in steering the proceedings of the …
I thank you, Mr. President, for arranging this most welcome exchange between members of the Security Council and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme. I would like to join other members of the Council in thanking the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Needs in Sout…
Romania associates itself with the statement delivered earlier on behalf of the European Union. I shall therefore make only a few additional comments while remaining within the proposed time limit.
The maintenance of world peace is, to a considerable extent, predicated upon solidarity and the rule …
I should like to begin by joining others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Jan
Egeland for his excellent and very to-the-point briefing on the topic at hand.
Romania associates itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Un…
I, too, wish to begin by extending a warm welcome to Mr. Didace Kiganahe, Minister of Justice of Burundi, and by thanking him for his very enlightening statement. His participation in today’s meeting gives us an opportunity to convey to him personally and to the
authorities and the people of Burund…
I would first like to join others in extending our gratitude to the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judge Meron and Judge Møse, as well as Chief Prosecutors Ms. Carla Del
Ponte and Mr. Hass…
My delegation is delighted, Mr. Minister, to see you personally chairing the second important meeting of the Council in a row. As I will point out further on, it seems that more that one connection can be established between these meetings.
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his carefu…
Madam President, I would like first to state our satisfaction at seeing the personal involvement of the Foreign Minister in steering this important meeting initiated by Denmark. My delegation welcomes the earlier participation of the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Louise Fréchette, and the statements…
I would like to start by joining previous speakers in expressing appreciation for the Secretary-General’s latest report on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET). I would also like to commend Mr. Annabi for his briefing, which once again illustrated UNMISET’s good performance …
I, too, should like to take this opportunity to reiterate publicly our congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. We wish also to express our gratitude to Ambassador Wang Guangya and his team for the exemplary way in which they conducted the bu…
Since the most recent public meeting of the Council on Côte d’Ivoire less than a month ago (see S/PV.5152), there has been significant progress in the situation in the country. We welcome this opportunity to meet again today to take note of those achievements.
In that context, we extend a warm welc…
Before all else, allow me, on behalf of Romania, to join in the expression of heartfelt condolences at the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the first pope ever to have visited a predominantly Orthodox country such as mine. We also share in the grief at the passing of His Serene Highness Pr…
I will be brief, not only because we are nearing exhaustion and the hour is late, but also because I feel there is little to add to a vote that speaks for itself in terms of the Council’s ability to come together and find solutions to the most intricate matters submitted for its consideration — solu…
As Romania aligns itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union, I would like here to make only a few specific comments.
We welcome the decision of the Brazilian presidency to convene a wrap-up meeting as a modality for as…
Permit me at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this important meeting today. We hope that it will be able to sound the alarm on the major risks posed by the political crisis persisting in Côte d’Ivoire. I would also like to thank Mr. Doss for having introduced the report of…
I will keep my comments short, since we fully associate ourselves with the statement that Ambassador Hoscheit of Luxembourg will make shortly on behalf of the European Union.
First, I would once again like to congratulate the High Representative for his inspiring and thorough work in Bosnia and Her…
Allow me, at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you very warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. I wish you every success in that capacity, and I am confident that you will indeed be successful. I pledge my delegation’s full cooperation in that regard.
I would like to voice a very…
Allow me first of all to convey my Government’s condolences to the Government and the people of Bangladesh on the tragic deaths of nine peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
I would like now to welcome Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta, and, through him, to congratulate the Timor-Le…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. My delegation is grateful to the Secretary-General for his solid progress report on ways to combat subregional and cross-border problems in West Africa (S/2005/86). We appreciate the presence and the valuable contributions of the Spec…
We too are grateful for the briefing by Mr. Jessen-Petersen, Special Representative of the Secretary-General. Mr. Jessen- Petersen has a firm grip on the job in Kosovo, as has already been demonstrated by the good results achieved. I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate Romania’s full su…
