Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting on Kosovo and for your continued interest in the Council’s work. I should also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his very informative and useful briefing on the progress made by the United Nations …
I would like first of all to welcome the presence here of His Excellency Mr. Goran Svilanovic, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. We listened with interest to his statement, and we believe it important to continue to make every effort to implement the relevant resolu…
I would also like to welcome Senator Biden here among us, and I want to welcome Mr. Jacques Paul Klein, the Special Representative and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to thank him for his detailed and enlightening presentation. We are gratified that the re…
I wish first of all, Mr. President, to thank you and your delegation for the initiative to include the question of international terrorism on the December agenda of the Security Council. I wish also to thank Mr. Hans Corell for his comprehensive briefing on the roles of United Nations organs in the …
We are considering the question of Palestine once again. This is a tradition we follow every year, but the discussion today is held in a new climate — a negative one compared to that of last year’s discussion in the General Assembly and that since the Middle East peace process began.
The situation …
On behalf of the Tunisian delegation, I would like to start by thanking you, Mr. President, for having convened this important meeting and for giving us an opportunity to hear the presentation by Ms. Carolyn McAskie on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I should also…
I also wish to thank Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello for his visit to New York and for the briefing he just gave us on the progress made and on his future plans. I also wish to thank Ambassador Andjaba, the leader of our mission, for the manner in which he managed the Security Council mission and led dis…
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to you, Mr. President, for having responded so promptly to the request to convene this urgent public meeting to discuss the grave and deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Security Council is meeting formally for the thir…
Allow me to join other delegations in thanking Judge Jorda, Judge Pillay and Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte for their detailed overview of and update on the work done by the two Tribunals.
My delegation shares the various positions expressed earlier by several delegations with regard to the impor…
First of all, Mr. President, allow me to pay tribute to your predecessor, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, Chairman of the Working Group on Security Council reform, and to the two Vice-Chairmen, for their sustained efforts to advance our work on this issue during the last session. The crucial importance of Sec…
I would like first of all to welcome Mr. Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, to the Council and to thank him for his informative briefing on the evolution of the situation in Kosovo.
In recent weeks Kosovo has been engaged in intense activities that the …
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having proposed the theme “No exit without strategy” for discussion today. The participation of States non-members of the Council is likely to enhance this debate.
The consideration of this issue comes in the context of a major debate unfo…
First, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on having organized this briefing on the general elections that were held on 11 November in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would also like to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his clear and usefu…
I should like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on the Brahimi Report on United Nations peacekeeping operations.
My delegation would like to pay tribute to Mr. Brahimi and to the members of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations for the important docu…
I would like to welcome Mrs. Ogata, the High Commissioner for Refugees, and thank her for her exhaustive and instructive statement on the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). I hope that the presence here of Mrs. Ogata, who has admirably served the r…
Allow me at the outset to express to the Secretary-General, on behalf of the Tunisian delegation, our gratitude and appreciation for his valuable report on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and for his efforts to promote this cooperation.
Ever since…
Allow me at the outset to express to the delegations of Singapore and Angola our deep sorrow and condolences for the two airplane crashes in which many people lost their lives.
My delegation would also like to thank and commend the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on the Causes of Conflict and the P…
Assessment and monitoring of the results and recommendations of the World Summit for Social Development and the results of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly offer an opportunity to affirm the Declaration and the Programme of Action accepted by the international community, ass…
I should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to consider the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I should also like to thank Mr. Wolfgang Petritsch for his detailed and enlightening briefing on the development of situation in that country.
The report before us today…
I would first of all like to express our appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to Ambassador Andjaba, for turning the attention of the Security Council to such an important subject as the one before us today.
I would also like to take this opportunity to declare my country’s interest in any excha…
