I take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December and to pledge to you my delegation’s fullest support. I would further like to express our delegation’s appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Natalegawa, for…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election and to wish you all the best for this session of the General Assembly.
Timor-Leste supports the adoption of the recommendation of the General Committee not to include Taiwan’s application for membership in the United Natio…
I shall begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. I wish to express my gratitude to you for convening this meeting on the question of Timor-Leste. I should also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his comprehensive report (S/2007/513), as well…
First, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to thank you for giving me an opportunity to address the Council today. I would like to commend the Secretary-General for the report before the Council (S/2007/50), and for the s…
On behalf of President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta and on behalf of the people of Timor-Leste, allow me to congratulate you, Madam, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. Your experience and diplomatic ability will ensure the succ…
It is a great honour to see you, my dear friend Ambassador Nana Effah- Apenteng, presiding over the Security Council for this month. I wish you and your country, Ghana, every success during these very challenging times.
Today I would like to share with the Council my Government’s views on the role …
Madam President, it is a great honour for us to see you presiding over this meeting. It is also a great honour to see the Secretary- General in this meeting, and we thank him for the efforts that he has undertaken to support East Timor. It is a great honour too to see Special Envoy Ian Martin again,…
I am here again before the Council to argue for a modest yet robust United Nations presence in Timor-Leste from May 2006 to May 2007. I am doing so against the background of the most recent developments in my country.
I will be candid in offering a sober analysis of the problems we are facing, the …
Mr. President, Timor-Leste commends the extraordinary and tireless efforts made by you, by Member States and by the two co-Chairmen – Ambassador Kumalo of South Africa and Ambassador Arias of Panama.
However, Timor-Leste would have preferred that negotiations continue for a few more weeks so as to …
Because of the constraints on our time, I shall omit several paragraphs of my statement, the full text of which has been distributed to delegations.
The President, the Prime Minister and the people of Timor-Leste have conveyed to the people and the Government of the United States our profound sympa…
At the outset, I would like to express the solidarity of the Timorese people with the victims of Hurricane Katrina and with the people and the Government of the United States.
It is my great pleasure to be here today to share with the Assembly the progress and the steps taken so far in Timor-Leste …
Allow me to congratulate you, Madam, and your country on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, as well as to wish you every success. We would like to thank you and the other members of the Council for the opportunity to share our thoughts on an issue of great importance to my co…
Before I deliver my written remarks, I should like to express my sincere condolences to the people and the Government of Bangladesh and to the United Nations family for the brutal murder of Bangladeshi peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We particularly feel the peacekeepers’ tragi…
We welcome the convening of this meeting at the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly to discuss issues related to the tsunami disaster that occurred in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004.
We felt shock when television screens showed the images of the tragic deaths, the destruction and the …
Allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, and your country on the assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month and to thank you and the members of the Council for the opportunity to address the Council.
At the outset, let me thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his…
We welcome the report of the Security Council (A/59/2), introduced by this month’s Council President, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Sir Emyr Jones Parry. The report highlights the challenges and successes of various United Nations peacekeep…
In view of time constraints, I shall share an abbreviated version of my speech. The full text is being distributed in the Hall. Please forgive me for skipping the usual formal greetings to all the deserving dignitaries.
I first walked into this building in December 1975, in the midst of a North Ame…
Thank you. As this is the first time that I have addressed the Council since your assumption of the presidency, allow me to congratulate you and wish you success in the conduct of the work of this august body. I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report which outlines the activities o…
Mr. President, this is the first time that I appear before such an august body that has contributed so much to my country’s freedom and well-being. Hence, my first words are necessarily of gratitude for the Council’s unrelenting interest and support, without which the progress we have made so far wo…
I thank you, Sir, and all the other members of the Council for inviting me to speak here today. I am particularly pleased that it is during your presidency that the Council is once again considering the situation in Timor-Leste. In view of your long involvement in and experience with the issue of Ti…
