Permit me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the Council presidency and to thank the Permanent Representative of France for his service as President during the month of June. I should also like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Danilo Türk for his detailed statement and for his contr…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, and also to thank Mr. Morris for his informative briefing on the correlation between hunger and peace and security in Africa. This is a highly appropriate topic for Security Council discussion.
The challenges in Africa represent a compelling call for internationa…
Today, three years after the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development, its outcome — the Monterrey Consensus — has become the definitive framework for successful development. Developing countries and donors alike have embraced its emphasis on good governance and domestic ownership of d…
The United States is a country of great ethnic diversity. As such, we support and fully appreciate multilingualism. Nearly 47 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. In fact, English is just one of nearly 180 languages spoken in the United States. Residents of Queens, across t…
We are obliged to you, Mr. President, for organizing this important debate, as we are to Under-Secretary- General Egeland for his detailed presentation this morning. That presentation, and that of the Secretary- General’s report of last year, paint a disturbing picture, but we are encouraged that th…
For yet another year, the Assembly is taking up a draft resolution designed to confuse and obscure. But let there be no confusion about this: the United States, like most Member States, reaffirms its strong commitment to supporting the right and the heartfelt desire of the Cuban people to freely det…
The United States of America, like most Member States, is firmly committed to supporting the desire of the Cuban people to freely determine their country’s future.
The United States of America, like all Member States, has the sovereign right to conduct its economic relationships with other countrie…
I want to thank the Minister of Justice of Burundi for his appearance here and for his words to us, and to congratulate him on his efforts to bring about a transition to a peaceful, stable society based on the rule of law. I also want to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for the Office of Legal…
Let me first thank President Meron, President Møse, Prosecutor Del Ponte and Prosecutor Jallow for their reports and presentations.
Like Judge Meron and Prosecutor Del Ponte, we also are conscious that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the genocidal massacre in Srebrenica. It also marks the …
In Security Council resolution 1546 (2004), Council members agreed to review the mandate of the multinational force either at the request of the Government of Iraq or by 8 June 2005. To facilitate that review, I am pleased to report to the Security Council on behalf of the multinational force, with …
I would like to welcome back Special Representative Jessen-Petersen to the Council and thank him for his excellent briefing. I would also like to thank Mr. Covic for joining us here today and for his statement.
We have reached an important milestone in Kosovo. After six years of working with the pe…
With today’s presidential statement, the members of the Security Council will demonstrate a renewed commitment to an improved post-conflict peacebuilding process. The United States welcomes this commitment with energy and enthusiasm. As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in February of this ye…
The United States welcomes the Secretary-General’s end of mandate report on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) (S/2005/310) and also thanks Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his presentation to the Council. I also wish to extend a particular welcome to Ambassador Gute…
I thank Ambassador Sardenberg for his leadership of the Security Council mission and his informative presentation. We, too, would like to salute the efforts of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti and the personnel that the United Nations has on the ground in Haiti for their hard work a…
I am pleased to represent the United States today at this special meeting of the General Assembly commemorating the victims of the Second World War and of the Holocaust. Our act of remembrance today must be repeated so that the scourge of war, hatred and intolerance is not repeated. The United Natio…
Following your guidance, Sir, I will submit a fuller statement to be circulated as a document of the Council. I would like to highlight a few key points.
First, I would like to thank all three Chairpersons for their presentations. Each Committee is engaged in important work to fight terrorism and t…
The United States welcomes the achievement of the General Assembly in concluding its work on the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism and adopting it by consensus. By its action today, the General Assembly has shown that, when it has the political will, it can pl…
Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1546 (2004), I am pleased, on behalf of the multinational force, to report to the Security Council on the efforts of the multinational force and on its progress in fulfilling its mandate.
The situation in Iraq today is very different from that on which we rep…
I should like to begin by expressing to our colleagues from the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See, our colleagues from the Permanent Mission of Poland and indeed to all those who looked to Pope John Paul II as a spiritual guide my country’s deepest sympathies on his passing. He was an inspi…
The American people have a special place in their hearts for His Holiness Pope John Paul II. He came to the United States seven times, visiting cities as far from each other as New York and Anchorage, as well as many points in between. During his travels he won the respect and admiration of American…
