We too are grateful to Mr. Atul Khare, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste, for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) (S/2009/504) and for his analysis of the situation in the country. We al…
The world financial and economic crisis has jeopardized the steady socio-economic development of the African continent. Today, as never before, it is important to implement political agreements in support of Africa achieved both at the United Nations and in other multilateral forums, including the G…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zannier, for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2009/497) on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign…
We are grateful to the Under-Secretary- General Mr. Pascoe for his comprehensive briefing on the situation and peace process in the Middle East. We welcome the participation in the present meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, Mr. Riyad Al-Malki.
The question of a solution in th…
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) linked fully, for the first time, the dynamics of population with questions of sustainable development. The Cairo Programme of Action, which was the outcome of the Conference, has served as a powerful incentive for countries of the in…
First, I express my gratitude to the Presidents of the Tribunals for their reports.
The Tribunals set up by the Security Council more than 15 years ago, as temporary courts, undoubtedly have done considerable work in order to bring to justice those persons guilty of international crimes on the terr…
We, too, are grateful to Under-Secretary- General Pascoe and Mr. Boyd for their briefings.
We are seriously concerned by the acuteness of the armed confrontation in Somalia and the general security situation. The death on 17 September of 21 peacekeepers of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMIS…
Mr. President, at the outset, allow me to welcome you as the President of the Security Council and to extend my gratitude to the delegation of Viet Nam for today’s initiative of convening an open debate of the Council to discuss the status of implementation
of resolution 1325 (2000). We would like …
I thank you, Madam, welcome you to the
Security Council. Because this is the last meeting of the September presidency of the United States, I should like to express appreciation to the Permanent Representative of the United States, Ambassador Susan Rice, and the entire American delegation for their…
Clearly, we share all the feelings so eloquently expressed to Ms. Norma Chan by colleagues who spoke earlier. We wish her every success in her future endeavours.
We thank Mr. Kai Eide for his comprehensive and candid analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, as well as for his introduction of the S…
It is difficult to overstate the significance of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) held in Vienna in March. The proceedings have become the main anti-narcotics event not only of this year but perhaps of the entire decade, since within its framework stock was taken of t…
I wish to draw attention to the fact that at least two delegations that were indicated on the board as having voted in favour had in fact abstained in the voting. Therefore, the results declared at the outcome of the voting are not fully valid.
The outcome of the vote that has just been held again reaffirms the fact that a specific group of countries continues to employ double standards with regard to this issue and to adopt a politicized approach, to the detriment of practical steps to bring about a settlement to existing humanitarian pro…
The draft resolution before the General Assembly in document A/63/L.79 has nothing in common with the lofty humanitarian goals and concerns referred to by its authors. Moreover, this initiative is motivated exclusively by political concerns and based on the expedient calculations of the Georgian sid…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the assumption of the important role of President of the Security Council. I would also like to thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for their effective work in presiding over the Council last month.
We welcome the participat…
We wish to caution the Assembly against taking a hasty decision on the inclusion of an additional item on the agenda of the sixty-second session of the Assembly, on extension of the terms of the ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Under rule 15 of…
The Russian delegation is grateful to the delegation of the United Kingdom for the timely initiative of convening this Security Council meeting on such an important issue. Our thanks go to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2009/362) on the implementation of resolution 1820 (2008) and for his b…
The Russian delegation is grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the delegation of the United Kingdom for convening today’s Security Council meeting on the critical issue of United Nations peacekeeping. We listened very closely to the briefings by Under-Secretaries-General Le Roy and Malcorra, who i…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, for his briefing on the situation in Somalia. While we understand his hopes for positive developments in that situation, the overall picture is extremely alarming. We listened closely to the statements made by A…
I am obliged to state that Russia, acting on the basis of Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations in exercise of its right to self-defence against Georgian troops firing directly on its peacekeepers, never sought to position its actions within the framework of the inchoate concept of the res…
