Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I also wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe and Mr. Boyd from the Department of Field Support, and express my appreciation for their briefings. We also appreciate the rep…
First and foremost, Mr. President, I thank you for this opportunity to participate in this discussion on Somalia. I also wish to take this occasion to pay tribute to the Secretary- General and my good friend Ambassador Ould Abdallah for all the efforts and energy he has brought to bear on the situat…
First of all, I thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to participate in and contribute to the consideration of the way forward for peacemaking and peacebuilding. The Secretary- General’s report (S/2009/304) reflects both our experience and our needs. We welcome and support its proposals and recommend…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to brief the Security Council. I very warmly congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and wish you success. I also wish to express my appreciation to last month’s Council President, His Exce…
Allow me to take this opportunity to thank, first and foremost, the Security Council, the Secretary-General and the United Nations as a whole for organizing the donors’ conference in Brussels on 23 April, and the international community and the donor organizations for the pledges and commitments tha…
I wish first, on behalf of my Government and my people, to express our gratitude for the deep sympathy and appreciation that all participants have shown for the Somali people in the circumstances that currently prevail. I think that the international community and the Somali people are in partnershi…
I am pleased to have this opportunity to report recent developments and the significant progress made by the Government of President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. First, however, I wish to thank the Council, the Member States, the Governments, the Secre…
Let me first and foremost congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of
the presidency and to congratulate you on resolution 1863 (2009), which has been adopted unanimously under your presidency. I also express our gratitude to all the members of the Security Council for having voted unani…
I take this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President, the Secretary-General and all those who have in one way or another urged the Security Council to take urgent, relevant and bold action to end the 18-year agony of the Somali people.
Once again, the situation in Somalia is under discussion by the …
Mr. President, I would like to seize this opportunity to thank you for allowing me to brief the Security Council on recent developments in Somalia. Some of this briefing has already been done.
I would also express our profound appreciation to the Secretary-General and his Special Representative for…
I take this opportunity to add my voice to those of numerous speakers who extended their warmest congratulations to Mr. d’Escoto Brockmann on his assumption of his responsibilities as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. I am confident that this world body will benefit from …
It is my pleasure to participate in this Security Council discussion on the situation in Somalia. In that connection, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting. We would like also to thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative for their dedication and tirel…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for taking the initiative to organize this public debate in the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. We also thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative for their dedication to and tireless efforts for peace and stability in Somalia. …
We thank you, Mr. President, for giving us this opportunity to participate in today’s meeting of the Security Council. I also wish to endorse, with thanks, the statement just made by the Permanent Observer of the African Union, with which we fully agree. In addition, on behalf of my Government, I am…
On behalf of the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United
Nations, who is not currently in New York, and in my capacity as officer-in-charge of the Mission, on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, and, indeed, on behalf of all the suffering people of Somalia, I would l…
It is indeed an honour for me to extend to Mr. Kerim the sincere congratulations of the Government of Somalia upon his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. His tenure comes at a crucial period for the international community as tensions and instability have surfaced and the United
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I take this opportunity warmly to congratulate Mr. Srgjan Kerim on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. We wholeheartedly support his presidency. We also thank his immediate predecessor, the President of the Assembly at its sixty-first session, Her Excellenc…
It gives me great pleasure to know that a sister from fraternal Bahrain is presiding over this important session of the General Assembly. Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa’s leadership will certainly contribute to promoting dialogue and harmony in the midst of the spread of conflicts throughout the differe…
Since this is the first time that my delegation takes the floor, let me first congratulate you, Madam President, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. My delegation supports the recommendation by the General Committee and associates itself with the stateme…
It gives me great pleasure to address this assembly of world leaders and to present our sincere congratulations to the Co- Chairpersons on their well-deserved election. We are confident that they will guide our deliberations to a successful conclusion. Let me also commend Mr. Jean Ping for the able …
