I regret that my first intervention before this body is in exercise of the right of reply. However, I must express my delegation’s surprise at the statement made at the 15th meeting this morning by His Excellency Mr. Gábor Bródi, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary, in which he voiced his…
Allow me at the outset to convey the greetings and best wishes of the people of my country to Member States and their people, and to the Secretary-General.
War, oppression, crime, hatred and suffering plague hundreds of millions of men and women all over the world today. In pursuit of the ideals of…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August. I would also like to
thank Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi for his in-depth presentation of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2004/613).
I would also l…
I should like to underline two issues in particular.
The first issue is that of final status, which was mentioned by many members. For the Government of Serbia and the Government of Serbia and Montenegro, the final status of the province of Kosovo entails very specific models for local autonomy and…
Allow me at the outset to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to the members of the Council for giving me the opportunity to address the Council on this very important issue concerning my country and the province of Kosovo and Metohija.
I would also like to thank the Secretary-Genera…
Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April and to thank you for convening this meeting on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999). I would also like to sincerely thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno …
On behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, I would like to extend to the citizens and the Government of Macedonia our deepest and most sincere condolences in the wake of the tragic death of President Boris Trajkovski on 26 February 2004.
President Trajkovski will be remembered as a statesma…
On behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to commemorate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The Group of Eastern European States pays tribute to the victims of the genocide and expresses deepest sympathies to the people of Rwanda in…
Mr. President. I greatly appreciate the opportunity you are giving me to speak. I would like to brief the Council on several issues.
First, unfortunately the violence is continuing today. Attacks by Albanians have been continuing, and that is why we hope that our joint efforts today will bring us t…
I wish to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President — and, through you, to all other members of the Security Council — for responding so quickly to my Government’s request urgently to convene this meeting. Indeed, yesterday’s extremely grave developments in Kosovo and Metohija warrant immediate …
Allow me to begin by joining previous speakers in expressing my Government’s deepest condemnation of the terrorist attack in Moscow.
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month and to thank you for convening this important me…
At the outset, I should like to congratulate Bulgaria on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I should also like to take this opportunity to say that we highly appreciate the fact that you, Sir, are personally presiding over the Council’s deliberations today, whic…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. I also thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2003/996) on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), which is before the Council.
Allow me to join Council members in thankin…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the comprehensive and informative reports submitted under the agenda item under consideration.
The reports clearly indicate that humanitarian operations are becoming more complex and larger, both in scale and number. At the same time, t…
I wish first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency for this month and to thank you for having convened this very important meeting. I wish also to express our appreciation to Judge Møse and Prosecutor Jallow of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
M…
Allow me to extend the appreciation of my delegation to the President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Theodor Meron, for the comprehensive report on the Tribunal’s work in the past year and his introductory analysis, which we have just heard. We have studied the…
My delegation has studied the report of the Secretary- General on the work of the Organization with great interest. We fully concur with the Secretary-General’s assessment that the past year has been an extremely trying one, particularly in the field of peace and security. Indeed, developments durin…
I should like to thank the British presidency for having convened a ministerial meeting on the very important topic of justice and the rule of law, as well as for this opportunity for the wider United Nations membership to contribute to the debate.
My delegation has listened with great interest to …
Allow me to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the progress towards implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and for his personal commitment to combating this pandemic, which is already considered to be the worst in the history of humankind.
At the Millennium Summit, o…
At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of September, as well as to thank you for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank Mr. Annabi for his briefing.
In recent months the Security Council has held a seri…
