I wish to congratulate you, Madam President, on presiding over this meeting of the Security Council. Your country’s neutrality and your presidency provide this body with the serene atmosphere and more human feeling that it often needs. Thank you for that.
The Rwanda delegation is joining the commun…
My delegation would like to wish His Excellency Ambassador Mérimée every success in his new post in Rome. Through various contacts, we have been able to see and appreciate his outstanding human qualities and his diplomatic abilities. My delegation wishes him Godspeed.
My delegation would also like …
On behalf of my delegation, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of September. My delegation is confident that your wisdom and experience, as well as your spirit of impartiality, will guide the Council’s work in an exemplary manner. You…
My delegation does not wish to engage in polemics. It simply wants the Council to be prudent and logical when it takes its decisions. There is no logic, I believe, in establishing a commission to highlight elements of impunity in the region while some members of the Council or even countries in the …
Allow me first, Mr. President, to congratulate through you, Ambassador Terence on his appointment as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Burundi to the United Nations. My delegation offers him its fullest possible cooperation.
My delegation recognizes, above all, that Burundi is part of a ne…
My delegation would like at the outset to express its condolences to the representative of Italy on the death of Italian citizens who became victims in Zaire of people they had gone to help and their hosts. My delegation has always denounced the mixing of refugees with armed groups; it has always de…
My delegation takes this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August. We are convinced that the work of the Council, in working for peace and security throughout the world, will benefit from your wisdom and your wealth of…
My delegation is more than pleased with the positive ongoing operations of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH), especially at a time when we are all thirsty for United Nations success stories.
My delegation attributes the present success of UNMIH in part to the transparency exercised by UNM…
At the outset, I should like to express to you, Mr. President, our profound gratitude and appreciation for the exemplary and dynamic manner in which you have conducted the business of the Security Council this month. Allow me also to bid you farewell, as you are about to retire from the diplomatic s…
Mr. President, my delegation would like to extend its congratulations to you and your delegation on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council
I should also like to take advantage of this opportunity to congratulate Ambassador Jean-Bernard Mérimée on his effectiveness and the competen…
My delegation decided to co-sponsor this draft resolution for one specific reason: to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people.
Indeed, the machinery provided for in this document is in full accordance with that principle. It is painful for my delegation to sit down and cross its arms while grea…
Mr. President, my delegation would like, through you, to pay a tribute to Ambassador Li Zhaoxing for the excellent
My delegation would also like to thank his predecessor, the Ambassador of Botswana, for his dynamic and competent manner of conducting the Council's work last month.
The Security Coun…
My delegation would like to thank the delegation of the United States, which prepared this resolution — and the other members of the Council that worked on it — on the detention of persons found guilty of crimes against humanity, both within and outside Rwanda.
The resolution is of great importance…
My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of paragraph 5 of Security Council resolution 955 (1994). As members know, the establishment of an international tribunal was at the explicit request of the Rwandan Government, and in the interest of establishing justice…
The delegation of Rwanda wishes to pay a warm tribute to the Secretary-General for his fine report on the situation in Haiti.
Having read the various reports and recommendations, we are very pleased to learn that a secure and stable climate prevails in that Republic, the victim of so many years of …
It is a great honour and a great pleasure for me to warmly welcome His Excellency Foreign Minister Leonardo Simão of Mozambique. The delegation of Rwanda wishes to convey its deep gratitude to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique for all the very useful information he has ju…
Since this is the first time that I have personally spoken in the Council, permit me to congratulate you, Sir, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council for this month. Rwanda is confident that with your experience and competence you will lead the work of the Council successfully. …
We would like to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this important meeting of the General Assembly to discuss the reports of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (A/61/265) and the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (A/61/271).
My delegat…
My delegation appreciates this opportunity to address the States Members of the United Nations on the important issue
of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Let me reiterate Rwanda’s appreciation for the support given by the international community through the ICTR to arrest and …