Allow me at the outset to thank the Secretary- General most sincerely for having submitted his report on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET).
We welcome Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of UNMISET. We thank him for having in…
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his frank and comprehensive briefing to the Council this morning on the latest developments in Kosovo. We also welcome the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2003/421).
My delegation…
We wish to welcome you personally among us once again in the Council, Mr. President, and to thank you and your Mission for holding this very important meeting. It is being held within the framework of the importance that your friendly country, Mexico, has given it. It has an historical importance, f…
I would like to join preceding speakers in welcoming Mr. Morris and to express my satisfaction at his very informative briefing. This is one of the most urgent and important of issues and is one to which the Security Council has not devoted enough time. As Ambassador Greenstock mentioned, there are …
We wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption to the presidency of the Security Council for the current month, and we wish you success. We pledge our full cooperation, and we thank you for convening this meeting. We express our
appreciation for the efforts made by your predecessor,…
Allow me at the outset to express our wholehearted thanks to the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB) and to thank Mr. Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for this morning’s briefing on recent developments on the …
In accordance with the position of the Syrian Arab Republic — which is committed to the resolutions of international legitimacy — and with the role of the United Nations and the need to revitalize that role in response to the humanitarian needs of the brotherly Iraqi people by restarting the oil for…
I should like at the outset most particularly to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor. We also wish to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing on the report and on the latest de…
I should like at the outset to welcome His Excellency Mr. Hans Dahlgren, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Sweden. We are familiar with his great contributions to the work of this Organization. I would also like to thank him for presenting the final report on the Stockholm Process on the Implem…
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to express my heartfelt condolences to the Governments of Afghanistan and of Pakistan with respect to the air crash that killed the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industry as well as several Pakistani officials.
We would like to welcome among us Mr. Guéhenno, Ambassador …
It is difficult for anybody to take the floor after Ambassador Greenstock’ s valuable remarks. However, the statement by the representative of Israel makes it hard for me not to say a few words.
Syria has always been proud of having been among the first countries to combat terrorism, and of having …
The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the convening of this meeting to discuss the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is our pleasure to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his comprehensive and exhaustive briefing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the C…
My delegation would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on the situation in Kosovo. My delegation would also like wholeheartedly to thank Mr. Steiner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his complete and detailed briefing on …
Allow me at the outset to extend our sincere condolences to the Government and the people of the United States of America following the tragic disaster that befell the space shuttle Columbia.
It is my privilege to read out the text of a statement by Mr. Farouk Al-Shara’, Deputy Prime Minister and M…
I wish to convey to you, Sir, to the Ministers,
to the Secretary-General and to the representatives of member States the best wishes of Mr. Farouk Al-Shara, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic. As he could not be present today, he has asked me to deliv…
At the outset, Mr. President, allow me to thank you for convening this important meeting. We especially appreciate the considerable efforts made by France and its leadership in this regard. We would also like to express our thanks to Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his continuing follow-up on this …
The Syrian Arab Republic delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 1454 (2002), just adopted by the Council. Here, we would like to make a number of points. First, when voting in favour of resolution 1447 (2002) calling for the extension of the oil-for-food programme, Syria took into account …
When the Syrian Arab Republic introduced, on behalf of the Group of Arab States, the draft resolution now contained in document S/2002/1385, we understood that it dealt with issues that enjoyed unanimous support — issues of concern to the international community and the various bodies of the United …
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this wrap-up meeting to discuss the work of the Council. We have listened attentively, particularly to the statements of the representatives of delegations whose Council tenure will conclude at the end of this year. We reiterate our…
My delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe” because we believe that such cooperation is important and that we should strengthen the means and scope of cooperation between the two organizations, in a similar approac…
