The Charter of the United Nations, in its principles and purposes, reaffirms the right of States to exercise sovereignty over their territory and to non- interference in their internal affairs. All Members of the United Nations — particularly the great Powers — are obliged to respect the Charter, wh…
My delegation joins you, Mr. President, in welcoming Mr. Harri Holkeri, who is with us today. We congratulate him on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. We also wish to thank him for his comprehen…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Guéhenno, for his comprehensive briefing on the mandate and role of the gender advisers in peacekeeping operations in implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security. I also thank Ms. Amy S…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for the reports he has submitted and which are now being considered by the General Assembly. My delegation would also like to support the statement made by the representative of Algeria on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement …
I wish at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. We also wish to commend Ambassador Pleuger and the other members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 661 (1990) for their accurate and direct work. I wish to join other Council members in e…
The issue of the rights of children occupies a special place of interest and importance to the Syrian Government. This can be seen through carefully implemented national plans that have been followed up by the highest
political authority in Syria. The President of the Republic has personally given …
I, too, would like to welcome the presence at this meeting of the Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan. The Syrian Arab Republic joined the Security Council consensus and voted in favour of resolution 1511 (2003). We did so after consultations with the representatives of France, Russia, Germany and Chin…
My delegation thanks Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), for his comprehensive and detailed briefing. We also thank the Secretary-General for his report on UNMISET.
My delegation is pleased w…
At the beginning of the current Assembly session, the world’s leaders agreed with near unanimity that the challenges faced by the Organization are unprecedented. One of the greatest difficulties confronting our world today is the confusion in the system of basic values and concepts and others’ misus…
The Security Council is meeting for the third time in less than a month to discuss the illegal practices of the Israeli occupation. Today, we are discussing in particular the recent decision of the Israeli Government to begin work on the second phase of what it refers to as the separation fence.
We…
Let me begin by thanking you personally, Mr. President, for your interest in this discussion and for attending it consistently.
My thanks also go to Ambassador John Negroponte, President of the Security Council for October, for his introduction of the Council’s report covering the period from 1 Aug…
Mr. President, we thank you for organizing this important meeting. We also welcome Lord Ashdown, the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we thank him for the detailed and comprehensive briefing that he gave us regarding the situation in Bosnia…
We were planning to refrain from taking further part in this polemical exercise, but I am intrigued by the representative of Israel’s use of the expression, “The wolf has become the victim”. I do not know how many more thousands of Arabs need to die in our region in order for the representative of I…
We were not surprised by the manner in which the Israeli representative began his statement. He immediately condemned all those countries that have already denounced the wanton act of aggression that took place on 5 October against a peaceful Syrian village. That shows a mentality that supposes anyo…
Today, we are debating the reports of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/58/1) and on implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration (A/58/323) and — on the one hand looking back on the achievements of the Organization and the challenges it has faced and, on the ot…
I regret having to take the floor again. However, this afternoon the Council heard unfounded lies, through which the Israeli representative tried to divert our attention from the reason for which the Council met: the Israeli violation of the air space of Syria and Lebanon and the acts of aggression …
Allow me at the outset to express to you, Sir, our thanks for immediately convening this meeting at the request of the Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon and the Group of Arab States.
As this is the first open meeting of the month, we congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency and wish you ev…
My delegation thanks Mr. Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his detailed briefing on the latest developments in Guinea-Bissau. We also welcome the Foreign Minister of Timor-Leste, Special Envoy of the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries. We thank him for his deta…
By any standard, our meetings today are a momentous and special event. The fact that an entire day of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly has been devoted to following up on the outcome of the
twenty-sixth special session of the Assembly and to assessing the implementation of the Decla…
It is regrettable that, despite all of the efforts of the Arab Group in general and of the Syrian delegation in particular, and notwithstanding the flexibility and patience that we have shown in the past few days, we have not been able to achieve the desired result. We were not able to do so in spit…
