My delegation is honoured to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over this open meeting of the Security Council. This confirms once again Bangladesh’s unswerving commitment to peace and prevention of armed conflict. We would also like to thank the Secretary-General for the high-quality report he has pr…
I would like to start by thanking Mr. Jacques-Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his brilliant briefing on the United Nations Mission on Bosnia and Herzegovina. This briefing is a timely complement to the Secretary-General’s report on recent developments in Bosnia and H…
Allow me to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for introducing the eighth report of the Secretary-General. I would also like to thank Mr. Olara Otunnu for his presentation on his recent visit to the Congo. My delegation hopes that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Kamel Morjane, wi…
I should like first of all to thank Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, our colleague and the Chairman of the Security Council sanctions Committee on Afghanistan, and, through him, Ambassador Haile Menkerios, the Chairman of the Committee of Experts, as well as all of his colleagues, for the report that …
My delegation wishes to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his exhaustive briefing. We are all aware of the excellent work and efforts undertaken by UNTAET in carrying out its mandate in East Timor, especially at this crucial stage.
I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report. My delegation is…
I join in thanking Mr. Guéhenno, Mr. Fall and Ms. McAskie for their important briefings.
The situation in West Africa, as described in this morning’s briefings and in the excellent report of the Inter-Agency Mission to West Africa (S/2001/434), is most alarming. It threatens to grow beyond control …
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to Ms.
Safiatou Ba-N’Daw and the other members of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the significant amount of work they have done pursuant t…
Three years ago, the Security Council decided to attach greater importance to the question of the protection of civilians in armed conflict with a view to the maintenance of international and regional peace and security. One presidential statement and two resolutions bear witness to that.
On the gr…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his very important briefing to us and, above all, for the good news he has just announced, in particular regarding the signing by the two parties yesterday of the agreement establishing the Temporary Security Zone.
We believe that, as the two parties hav…
Allow me to add Tunisia’s voice to those that have spoken earlier to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his excellent and instructive briefing on developments in Kosovo. My delegation pays tribute to him and to his team for their efforts to keep …
I join my colleagues in thanking Mr. Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing on developments and progress in East Timor.
Today’s meeting looks to the future of East Timor. The announcement of the date of East Timor’s first democratic elections — 30 Aug…
I wish to thank you for this welcome, Mr. President, that you have extended to me and for having introduced me to the members of the Council. I am grateful to you and to the members of the Council.
As the new Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations I am speaking for the first time…
I wish to express my most sincere thanks to you, Mr. President, for the very kind words you have addressed to me as my mission in the Security Council is coming to an end.
I also wish to thank your delegation and all my colleagues — current members of the Security Council and those who left the Cou…
May I first of all thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this urgent meeting of the Council in an immediate response to the request made by the Palestinian side, supported by the Arab Group and the Non-Aligned Movement, to consider the dangerous situation in the occupied Palestinian territor…
I wish to inform the Assembly that the Tunisian Government has decided to withdraw the candidacy of Mr. Abderraouf Mahbouli. I take this opportunity to thank all the delegations that voted in favour of the Tunisian candidate. Our best wishes, and those of the Tunisian Government, go to all candidate…
I would like to welcome Mr. Kerim, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. His presence among us demonstrates the importance of the question under consideration today. Indeed, the violence on the border of Kosovo is threatening the
stability and ethnic balance…
I shall now make a statement in my capacity as representative of Tunisia.
I wish to welcome once again Mr. João Bernardo de Miranda, Minister for External Relations of Angola, and express our happiness at having him among us, especially since I met him several times before in the context of the exc…
I should like first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting, which will, I am sure, enable us to have a constructive exchange of views on the important issue under consideration today. I should also like to express my great appreciation to Ambassador Chowdhury for his c…
Allow me at the outset to welcome to New York Minister Agba Otikpo Mezode and to thank our guests from the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organization of la Francophonie for their presence and for their exhaustive statements.
The Tunisian delegation has r…
First, I would like to express my delegation’s gratitude to you, Mr. President, for having convened this important meeting. I would also like to express my thanks to Mr. Guéhenno, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, and to Mr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nati…