The Syrian Arab Republic will vote against the draft resolution before us because the sponsor of the draft resolution insists on using language that deviates from the main purpose of the draft resolution, which is to condemn the act of international terrorism carried out in Kikambala, Kenya, which l…
Allow me at the outset to express to you, Madame Foreign Minister, how delighted my delegation is to see you presiding over this important session, whose item under consideration is of utmost concern to the peoples of the world. Allow me also to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his r…
The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic is pleased to welcome very warmly Mr. Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa. We should like to thank him for the sincere message of peace that he brought to the Council. We should also like to express our great appreciation for his su…
We congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We should also like to thank the Permanent Representative of China and his team for their excellent work last month. In addition, we welcome Mr. James Morris, Executive Director of the World Food P…
This year, the General Assembly is debating the two items on the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine amid very telling and critical regional and international reports that the region is enduring a horrific escalation of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the…
At the outset, allow me to express our appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on the situation in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. I would also like to express our gratitude to Sir Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, for his briefing t…
Allow me at the outset to extend my profound thanks to Ambassador Kamalesh Sharma, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Timor- Leste, for his comprehensive and useful briefing this morning and for the efforts he is exerting along with all the workers of the United Nations Mission of Su…
Syria voted in favour of the resolution based on its concern to achieve international unanimity in commitment to the principles of the United Nations Charter and the resolutions of international legitimacy, be they with respect to Iraq, the Palestinian cause or the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Syria vote…
Mr. President, my delegation thanks you for your initiative of convening this meeting on Kosovo. We also express our thanks to Mr. Guéhenno for his detailed and comprehensive briefing on the most recent developments in Kosovo, in particular, with respect to the local elections recently held there.
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My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for submitting the report entitled “Strengthening of the United Nations: an agenda for further change”. We appreciate his interest in strengthening the work of the Organization in response to the priorities enshrined in the Millennium Declaration.
We share…
I should like at the outset to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President, for having convened this open debate of the Security Council to deliberate on the issue of women and peace and security — an issue that occupies an important place on the international agenda.
I should like to welcome the…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would like to express our thanks and appreciation to His Excellency Lord Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to Mr. Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nat…
Enhancing international cooperation to resolve problems of an economic and social nature constitutes one of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations. For that reason, the international community must fully assume its responsibilities in dealing with unilateral extraterritorial…
It seems that I am not lucky. As the first speaker on the list this morning, I will be talking to myself and to the handful of colleagues in the General Assembly Hall.
My delegation would like to extend its thanks to Ambassador Martin Belinga-Eboutou, President of the Security Council for this mont…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. We should also like to express our thanks to Ambassador Valdivieso, Permanent Representative of Colombia, for the important preparatory efforts that were undertaken for this meeting. In addition, m…
Allow me to express our appreciation to you, Sir, for convening this meeting. Allow me also to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I should like to express our thanks to Ambassador Tafrov for his efforts during his presidency of the Security Council l…
Mr. President, we wish to thank you for convening this meeting, which shows that the Council
is giving additional importance to its annual report to the General Assembly. We are pleased that the efforts by Council members to improve the format of the report and to make it more valuable will be met …
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to thank you for convening this meeting of the Security Council, although it was somewhat delayed, since we had requested it on Friday. We do not understand the delay, in view of the fact that the situation in the region is boiling.
All of us have stated our v…
Let me begin, Sir, by congratulating you warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September. We are pleased to see you, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, presiding over this important meeting. At the same time our thanks go to Ambassador Tafrov…
My delegation wishes to welcome Mr. Nebojsa Čović, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Head of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Serbia Coordinating Centre for Kosovo and Metohija. We thank him for the detailed information he has provided on the situation in Kosovo and the state of cooperation with…
