Allow me to thank you, Sir, for the opportunity accorded to my delegation to participate in this important debate.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for his report and to assure him and his collaborators of my …
On behalf of the African Group, which we are honoured to chair for the month of October, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Ruud Lubbers on the extension of his mandate by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the next two years to head the Office of the United Natio…
This session of the General Assembly is being held at a time when the world is confronted with the most serious challenges of its history in all areas.
The Assembly has chosen Mr. Julian Hunte to preside over our work and for my delegation it is a sign of recognition of his qualities and competence…
Like previous speakers, I should like to welcome the presence here this morning of the Secretary-General. This is a sign of the determination of the United Nations to help to resolve conflict in the Great Lakes region and to achieve peace there.
I should like also to thank Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Ngon…
On behalf of my delegation and my Government, Sir, I should like to commend your Government, yourself
and your delegation for the competence with which you are guiding the work of the Council this month. At the same time, I should like to pay a tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador Munir Akram of…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting to consider the situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Government of the Republic of Rwanda fully supports the return of peace and security to the Great Lakes region as a whole and, in particular, to the Democratic…
The Government of the Republic of Rwanda does not accept paragraphs 6 and 12 of draft resolution A/57/L.23/Rev.1 entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe”, because genocide and terrorism are the worst crimes against humanity and development. It is unconstitutional i…
My Government warmly congratulates you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council during the month of November 2002, and also for the acumen that you have always shown in guiding the
work of the Council whenever you have presided over it. We wish also to congratulate your pr…
Allow me at the outset, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf to congratulate you wholeheartedly on your election as President of this session of the General
Assembly. As testimony to the esteem enjoyed by you and your country, Sir, you may rest assured of the support of the Rwanda delega…
It is my honour to congratulate you, Sir, as others who have spoken before me have done, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August. In addition, allow me, through you, to extend our recognition to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of the United…
My country congratulates you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. We should also like to congratulate your predecessor, who served in April, the month when the Council decided to make a trip to visit the Great Lakes Region.
My country appreciated that initi…
Allow me first of all, on behalf of my Government and of my delegation, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December, and on a job well done thus far, half way through the month. We also recognize the distinguished work of the previ…
It is my honour to address the Security Council today on behalf of my country, Rwanda. Following the terrible hardships that Rwanda endured in 1994 — genocide and massacre that took the lives of more than a million innocent people — my country, with the support of the international community, took t…
Allow me at the outset to thank the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for her report. I also wish to thank the Prosecutor, as well as the Registrar, who are both present, for their work.
Following the terrible events experienced in Rwanda in 1994 — genocide and mass…
It is a great honour for me, on behalf of the Rwandan delegation, to join previous speakers in extending from this rostrum of the United Nations our sincere and warm congratulations to Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election as President of the General Assembly at the fifty-sixth session. I should also li…
Rwanda would like to congratulate you, our colleague and friend, Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, the representative of that friendly country Colombia, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August. We welcome the outstanding quality of the work of this body, the result o…
Rwanda warmly welcomes the presidency of China for this month. We express our sincere satisfaction at seeing you, Sir, preside over the Council and at the outstanding manner in which you have guided its debates.
We followed with great attention and interest the briefing on the situation in the Grea…
It was with deep sadness and great emotion that the members of the Group of African States learned of the death of the President of the National Assembly of Bangladesh, the late Mr. Humayun Rasheed Choudhury.
It is not only Bangladesh that has just lost a man of courage and talent; it is all of us,…
The Government of Rwanda would like to congratulate the Security Council on its important initiative, under the auspices and with the support of the Secretary-General, to visit the Great Lakes region of Africa. For us, that visit was a success not only for the Council, which conducted the visit, but…
My delegation would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of May. Our congratulations also go to your predecessor, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, for a job well done last month. I wish to thank you and, through you, the Security Council for convenin…
