The United Nations International Year of Older Persons has led to increasing international awareness of the needs and capacities of older people. From statements we have heard today it is obvious that the Year has stimulated activities throughout the world.
The increasing number of elderly people i…
The past year has been a difficult one for the United Nations. Its principles have been challenged. Its relevance has been questioned. Still, at the end of the millennium, we have proved ourselves unable to prevent war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and unable to prevent genocide in Rwanda or ethnic c…
Allow me also to thank all my colleagues around the table for their kind words addressed to me.
I would like to comment on the two questions that were posed by the representatives of Japan and the United States on the proposal for joint border surveillance between Sierra Leone and Liberia and possi…
I am grateful for this opportunity to brief the Security Council about my visit last week to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
I undertook that visit in my capacity as Chairman of the Sierra Leone sanctions Committee, and the Council will recall that, in its follow-up to the Secretary-General’s report on A…
My delegation, too, very much welcomes your initiative, Mr. President, for an open debate in the Security Council on the maintenance of peace and security and post-conflict peace-building. The title of
We know that the absence of war is not the same as a lasting peace. We know that a ceasefire is s…
It is not difficult to say who is to blame for the crisis between Iraq and the United Nations, a crisis which has been such a large part of the entire workload of the Security Council during the two years that we have sat at this table.
It is the Government of Iraq that again and again has refused …
The draft resolution before us testifies to the continued concern of the Security Council about the situation in Afghanistan. It sends an unequivocal message to the Taliban and the other parties, as well as to Afghanistan’s neighbours and other States concerned, calling for an end to the suffering o…
I have the honour to introduce on behalf of the sponsors the draft resolution on the strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations contained in document A/53/L.59.
The first draft was discussed in informal consultations on 24 November. In those consult…
We welcome this briefing as part of a regular exchange of views between the Security Council and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). My delegation also welcomes the format of this briefing and I want to thank you, Sir, for arranging it. We hope that this can also…
A month ago the Security Council adopted resolution 1199 (1998) on the situation in Kosovo. The resolution spelled out a number of specific demands, particularly on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but also on the Kosovo Albanian leadership. The purpose of the resolution was, and remains, clear: …
First of all, I wish to thank the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock, for his presentation of this year’s report to the General Assembly.
This annual debate is a welcome opportunity for the full membership of the United Nations to take stock of the work of the Security …
I have the honour to take the floor on behalf of the Nordic countries — Denmark,
We welcome the new format of both the report itself and the debate which has focused to a greater extent on the core areas of the United Nations. This was the role envisaged by the Open-ended High-level Working Group o…
Let me first of all, through you, Sir, congratulate the President of the fifty- third session of the General Assembly upon his election. I am confident that our important work will be guided in a most productive way. I would also like to thank the former President, Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, for his rel…
International terrorism constitutes a threat not only to individual lives, but also to international peace and security. This was true 10 years ago and is still true today, as we unfortunately have just recently experienced.
The search for clarity and justice in the cases of Pan Am flight 103 and U…
The people of Angola deserve a lasting peace. No one, least of all the civilian population, which has suffered so much already, can afford a continued deadlock in the peace process. The Angolan people deserve better than the current military tension and the armed attacks which have affected civilian…
The threat of war in the Balkans is far from over. In spite of years of suffering and lost opportunities there is still a belief prevailing in the region that political goals can be achieved through the use of force. In the United Nations, we talk a lot about preventive action. In the Balkans, such …
Today’s decision to establish the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL) is an important contribution of the international community to the process of peace and reconciliation in Sierra Leone. My country gives special importance to the fact that, in addition to monitoring the mili…
Let me first state that Sweden fully associates itself with the statement made earlier today by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
The Government of Sweden deplores the recent decision by the Israeli Government to extend the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem munic…
Let me first say that I associate myself fully with the statement made by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
It is, indeed, appalling to learn how children of all ages are affected by armed conflict. They are recruited into armed combat — often by force, and s…
Let me first state that my delegation associates itself fully with the statement made earlier today by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
Less than three years ago, Bosnia and Herzegovina was a country in flames. In the summer of 1995, intense fighting was goi…
