It is a pleasure to welcome Mr. Zebari back to the Council, this time in his capacity as the Foreign Minister of the Iraqi interim Government.
Iraq is poised to take a momentous step in its modern history. The new Government named earlier this week will assume full sovereignty this month, and in co…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on complex crises and the United Nations response. It presents an opportunity to tie together a number of the Council’s recent thematic debates and to step back and consider more broadly some of the interrelated issues and challenges of the Uni…
I thank Ambassador Muñoz for his very thorough briefing on the work of the 1267 Committee and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team. We also commend and thank him for his strong leadership of the Committee, and we congratulate him on his successful and productive trip earlier this mon…
I want to thank High Commissioner Lubbers for his briefing, and I would like to say a few words prior to asking a few questions.
Members may have seen Secretary of State Powell announce, on Tuesday of this week, that the United States was going to contribute an additional $88.3 million, to bring ou…
We deeply regret the loss of life among innocent
Palestinian civilians today in Gaza. While we believe that Israel has the right to act to defend itself and its citizens, we do not see that its operations in Gaza in the past few days serve the purposes of peace and security. They have worsened the …
One year after the unanimous adoption of resolution 1483 (2003), this will be the last joint quarterly report by the United States and the United Kingdom on its implementation.
On 30 June, the Coalition Provisional Authority and the framework of occupation recognized and established under resolutio…
I want to join others in thanking Special Representative Holkeri for joining us today and for providing us with an excellent briefing. I wish also to welcome Foreign Minister Draskovic and to thank him for his presentation this morning.
It was almost two months ago that a deplorable and unjustifiab…
We too would like to extend our condolences and our thoughts and prayers for the victims of the terrorist action in Grozny, which killed President Kadyrov and others. We look forward to working on a presidential statement on that matter.
I would like to welcome Senior Minister Ana Pessoa to New Yor…
I want to thank Mr. Passy for joining us today and for giving us that overview of the activities of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I want to commend him also for his effective and active chairmanship of that important, if not widely understood, organization, an organi…
The United States will vote against the draft resolution (A/58/L.61) being considered here today. The United States believes that the draft resolution before us is inappropriate and ill-timed, and that it would detract from, rather than enhance, ongoing efforts to bring about a just, comprehensive a…
Once again, Sir, I would like to offer you congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Türk for his briefing on the status of the political process and weapons disposal in Bougainville and on the work of the Un…
In his address to the General Assembly last September, President Bush said that, because proliferators would use any route or channel open to them, we need the broadest possible cooperation to stop them. He asked the Security Council to help by adopting a resolution to counter this growing threat. T…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this discussion today and for giving us an opportunity to address the entire membership on this vitally important subject and on the draft resolution before the Council.
In September of last year, President Bush came to the General Assembly and said that, be…
We, too, are disappointed that one member of the Security Council was not prepared to support the Secretary-General’s request to adopt this draft resolution before the referendums in order to provide assurances to Greek Cypriots that the security structures provided for in the settlement would be in…
We are at a moment when the possibility exists for advancing the road map to a two-State solution of the Middle East conflict, including through steps by the Government of Israel to withdraw from Gaza. This should be our focus, and actions by either party that move us away from this goal are not hel…
On behalf of the Member States contributing forces, I am pleased to report to the Security Council on the efforts and progress of the multinational force authorized under Security Council resolution 1511 (2003). Together with our multinational force partners, the United States remains committed to a…
Businesses are valuable development partners, providing crucial investment and employment opportunities. As the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development reaffirmed, the private sector is the engine of economic growth, which in turn reduces poverty and creates jobs. In our disc…
It is a great honour to have this opportunity to represent my country today as the General Assembly turns its attention to the critical issue of road traffic safety. This is an issue about which my country cares deeply and passionately. I would like to commend the Sultanate of Oman for its leadershi…
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor the draft resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict.
We have been pursuing a solution to the problem of conflict diamonds since their horrific, destructive effects became known in the late 1990s. We have worked hard with other Governments, th…
I too thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his briefing to the Council this morning. I want to join other Council members in saying that the recent violence in Kosovo was deplorable and should never be repeated. Such violence is a dead end for the people of Kosovo and for the people of the reg…
