Since we are meeting in this smaller room, rather than in the big Hall of the General Assembly, I hope this means that there will be a greater meeting of minds on this issue.
Conflict prevention is like motherhood. Everybody worships it; nobody opposes it. But unfortunately, conflict prevention doe…
At the outset, may I also express our delegation’s words of congratulations to the Secretary-General and assure him of our continued wholehearted support.
Mr. President, we welcome your initiative to conduct a wrap-up session of the work of the Security Council in this chamber. As you yourself note…
Today’s debate is timely. It has been 15 months since the Council last reviewed the developments in the situation between Iraq and Kuwait in this Chamber. The Security Council is also presently engaged in discussions on new arrangements to facilitate the flow of goods and commodities into Iraq and o…
First, Mr. President, we too would like to express our appreciation for your able leadership of the Council’s mission to Kosovo. We also express our thanks to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2001/565), which we found very useful as background to the mission. We further thank the Under-Secret…
Sir, the Singapore delegation joins our colleagues in expressing our pleasure at seeing you preside over the debate today. We would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her concise summary of the crucial points in the Secretary-General’s report.
A prodigious amount of work has been …
I shall be very brief. First, we thank Mr. Klein for his comprehensive briefing and the Secretary-General for his excellent report.
Let me also state at the outset that Singapore supports the sterling work of Special Representative of
the Secretary-General Klein and Commissioner Coeurderoy, as wel…
Let me begin with a brief word of apology and a brief word of thanks. I would like to apologize to my colleagues for not having been here earlier this morning. But like you, Mr. President, I was called to another room by a meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the
Question of Equitable Represe…
Our thanks go to Ambassador Valdivieso for his presentation. We look forward to the presentation to be made later on by Ambassador Menkerios.
My delegation would like to thank the Committee of Experts for having provided the Council with a comprehensive analysis of the subject and for having made c…
I will not hold up the proceedings any more, but there is a reason for my intervention. I think I owe an explanation to members of the Council for holding up the proceedings.
From time to time, several of us have met privately and have indeed expressed concern about the way these speakers’ lists ar…
My understanding is that, at the informal consultations, we reached an understanding that there would be no speakers’ list. I am curious to see who made the decision to change the Council’s decision.
I apologize for interrupting the proceedings, Sir, but you referred in your introduction to the point that we are meeting here on the basis of prior consultations.
We were present at the consultations yesterday. I just want to reconfirm that the proceedings this morning will proceed on the basis of…
We thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for introducing the interim report of the Secretary- General on the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which Singapore fully supports. His further updates on the situation in East Timor were also very helpful. We warmly welcome Mr. Xanana Gusm…
I, too, would like to begin by thanking Mr. Guéhenno, Ms. McAskie and Mr. Fall for their presentations. I would also like especially to thank Mr. Fall for the excellent report that he has submitted to us.
There is one main point that I would like to emphasize in my remarks today: that the Council h…
Canada should be commended for introducing this issue on the agenda of the Security Council and, in particular, for its contribution to the work on this issue during its presidency of the Security Council in April 2000. We would like to commend you, Mr. President, for organizing this follow-up meeti…
We would like to echo the eloquent opening remarks of the Permanent
Representative of Jamaica. She said that Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno’s briefing and, indeed, the comments made earlier by members, have dealt with this issue fairly comprehensively. Hence, we shall restrict our remarks to jus…
Like others, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Marie Guéhenno for the briefing he gave us, and I also want to add, Mr. President, that we are very happy with this format you have instituted of having an interactive
session to discuss issues like this. I think this allows us, hopef…
You have asked us to dispense with formalities, Sir, so we will not congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency. But we would like to say publicly what we have told you privately: that we strongly support your efforts to reform the working methods of the Council. The interactive meeting we…
Please allow me to begin with some brief words of welcome. First, I would like to welcome Mr. Wolfgang Petritsch. Secondly, I would like to welcome Ambassador Noureddine Mejdoub of Tunisia, my neighbour on my left, and to congratulate him on his maiden appearance and speech. And finally, I would als…
My delegation would like to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Haekkerup, to the Security Council, and to thank him for his very first briefing to the Council. It was both informative and useful. Mr. Haekkerup has taken on a very difficult undertaking. He must be c…
I would like to join you, Mr. President, and our colleagues in warmly welcoming the Foreign Minister. Given the lateness of the hour I will be brief, but I hope that our brevity will not be misunderstood as any lack of sympathy or lack of support for the concerns that are being expressed by the Fore…
