We join other members of the Security Council in thanking Mr. Vieira de Mello for his comprehensive and clear statement on the development of the situation in East Timor since his last visit, on 2 February. We are pleased to note that, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Vieira de Mello and his team, the s…
I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on having convened this meeting to consider the situation in the Balkan region. I also wish to address thanks to Mr. Carl Bildt, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Balkans, for his full and informative briefing. I wish to express to Mr. Solana m…
I wish first to thank the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Claude Jorda, for his clear briefing and for the useful information he provided to members of the Security Council on the important subject of the International Criminal Tribunal for th…
Mr. President, I am very grateful to you for having given me the honour of making a short statement during this meeting. Permit me to take this opportunity to reiterate the deep appreciation of our delegation for your having organized this series of meetings between the Security Council and the Poli…
First, I wish to express sincere condolences on the passing of President Hafez Al-Assad of Syria. This was an immense loss not only for Syria, but also for the Arab world as a whole because Mr. Al-Assad had great personal qualities and did so much for the cause of the Middle East and the Arab cause.…
I should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting to examine the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I also wish to thank Mr. Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, fo…
I wish at the outset to thank the delegations of France and of the United Kingdom for having prepared the draft resolution on which we have just noted. We also thank you, Mr. President, for your own personal efforts towards its unanimous adoption by the Security Council.
Tunisia voted in favour of …
We join other members of the Council in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his comprehensive statement.
Despite the efforts made by the Indonesian authorities in cooperation with the United Nations to resolve all of the problems related to the return of the refugees, this issue remains…
First of all I would like to thank the head of our mission, Ambassador Holbrooke, for his briefing on the Security Council mission’s visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and I would like to take this opportunity to express to him our appreciation for the leadership, wisdom and dynamism he …
The exhaustive report which has just been presented to us by Mr. Petrov, Special Representative of the Secretary- General — whom we wish to thank, along with all the members of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT), for their efforts — marks the last of a series devoted to th…
Mr. President, I wish at the outset to thank you for convening this emergency meeting and for your speedy response to the request from the African group that the
We are sincerely grateful to the Secretary-General for his intensive efforts and for the important statement he made here this evening.
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I am delighted to congratulate you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to consider the situation in Kosovo. It is an opportunity for us to express our satisfaction for the results achieved by the Council mission. In fact, we find that the mission, thanks to the skill of Ambassador Chowdhury, …
The delegation of Tunisia takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General and of the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We thank them for their efforts and for the excellent quality of the documents before us. The reports refer to signific…
We are pleased to see you with us once again, Sir, presiding over this important meeting of the Security Council. I wish also to welcome the presence of Ms. Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Likewise, we wish to thank Mr. Kellenberger, President of the International Committe…
I would first of all like to welcome you once again, Mr. President, and to thank you for having organized this meeting to consider a question that is at the heart of the work of the United Nations and that of the Security Council in particular, namely, the issue of sanctions imposed by the Organizat…
I too wish to thank you, Mr. President, and the entire delegation of Canada for having organized this open briefing. I wish at the same time to thank Mr. Ingvar Carlsson for his useful statement on the report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide …
Allow me once again to express our sincere thanks to you personally, Sir, the Foreign Minister of Canada, and to all the members of the Security Council, for the condolences that they have expressed to the Government and the people of Tunisia on the passing of Habib Bourguiba, the first President of…
I thank you, Mr. President, and the other members of the Security Council for your expression of sympathy with the Government and the people of Tunisia in connection with the death of our leader, President Habib Bourguiba, the father of independent Tunisia. History will never forget the great work h…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on the situation in Guinea-Bissau. I also wish to thank Mr. Prendergast, Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, for his introduction to the report of the Secretary-General on developments in that country.
Th…
I would like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his illuminating report and for the statement he made this morning, as well as for the recommendations he has made to improve the implementation of the humanitarian programme in Iraq.
I would like also to thank Mr. Sevan, the Executive D…
