It is a great honour for me to address this forum on intercultural, interreligious and intercivilizational dialogue to achieve a culture of peace. On this occasion, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Joseph Deiss, for convening this meeting. We are convinced that our de…
I would like to start by thanking you, Mr. President, for your kind words about the Turkish presidency of the Council in September. I congratulate you on your presidency this month and wish you and the Ugandan mission all the best for the month of October.
I would like to commend your presidency fo…
The advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s declaration of independence (see A164/881), which was issued on 22 July, stated without any ambiguity that the declaration, made in February 2008, did not violate general international law. The advisory opinion, which was clear a…
I am taking the floor to briefly explain our position. Let me first emphasize that, regardless of our position on the issue at hand today, we believe that it is the right of any delegation to bring an issue to the attention of the General Assembly and, if it deems necessary, to present a draft resol…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this interactive meeting with the force commanders. They are doing an excellent job under truly difficult conditions, and we owe them our deepest gratitude. The insight they bring from the hot spots of operational theatres is very valuable, and we v…
Allow me to welcome Mr. Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Hyseni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, to the Council. We are pleased to see both of them. I would also like to welcome Mr. Zannier and to thank him for his briefing. We appreciate the work that he and the who…
My delegation wishes to explain its vote before the vote on draft resolution A/64/L.63/Rev.1*. On 28 March 2008 the Human Rights Council adopted by consensus its resolution 7/22, entitled “Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation”, in which the Council established the mandate of…
I should like to begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his comprehensive briefing. We fully appreciate and support the efforts of the Secretary-General and United Nations officials on the ground.
We are currently at the halfway point in terms of the anticipated duration of the proxim…
I should like to welcome you, Sir, and to thank you for presiding over the Council today. I should also like to thank the Nigerian presidency for its leadership in preparing the presidential statement we have just adopted. I should also like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro and the…
I thank the Secretary- General for his comprehensive statement. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Holmes and High Commissioner Pillay for their extensive briefings.
The majority of casualties in armed conflicts continue to be civilians. We strongly condemn all deliberate attacks on civilians and…
I would like to congratulate you, Madam, and the Nigerian Mission on assuming the presidency of the Council for July. I also thank the Mexican Mission for the excellent way in which it conducted the presidency last month.
I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2010/318) and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Staffan de Mistura for his comprehensive briefing. After having extensive talks with him in Kabul on the occasion of the Security Council mission to Afghanistan,…
First of all, I would like to welcome you, Mr. Deputy Minister, and I wish to commend Mexico’s presidency for organizing this meeting. I would like to thank to Ms. Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General, and Ms. Patricia O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel, for t…
My delegation wishes to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this meeting on transnational organized crime. The year 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. It is therefore very timely and pertinen…
I wish to begin by thanking the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for the comprehensive briefings they have just provided. The work carried out by both Tribunals since their very inception is of considerable importance for the fig…
I warmly welcome you, Madam President, as Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico presiding over the Council today. I also thank you for the comprehensive observations that you have made. Allow me to extend to the delegation of Mexico our most sincere congratulations on its work under the leadership …
Having voted against the draft resolution today, I would like to briefly share with the Council the reasons that compelled us to do so.
Turkey’s persistent objection has always been to the method through which these resolutions have been adopted and to the language they have contained. Since the ad…
I would like begin my remarks by welcoming all the esteemed dignitaries — President Mbeki, Mr. Gambari, Mr. Menkerios and Mr. Bassolé — who have briefed the Council today. We appreciate their hard work and thank them for sharing their valuable insights and recommendations with us.
The Sudan is at a…
Turkey is fully committed to its responsibilities in the field of non-proliferation, and as such is a party to all major international non-proliferation instruments and regimes. We do not want any country in our region to possess nuclear weapons. Such a development would make even more difficult the…
I appear before the Council today as a result of a very sad and tragic occasion on which one State Member of this house has committed a serious crime in total disregard of all the values we have vowed to uphold since the establishment of the United Nations system.
I am distraught by the fact that t…
