Mr. President, let me congratulate you and your delegation for Ireland’s outstanding leadership of the Council during this presidency. It is good to see you here. I want to thank Mr. Vieira de Mello also for his briefing and for his tireless and admirable efforts and those of his team in East Timor.…
On behalf of the United States, in sympathetic solidarity with our friends and colleagues in the United Nations community, I come before the Assembly to honour the memory of the late Assistant Secretary-General, Ismat Kittani, the thirty-sixth President of the General Assembly.
Mr. Kittani was a re…
The United States is committed to the effort to strengthen the Security Council. Enlarging the Council is a means to that end, not the end in itself. A reformed Council, with Japan and Germany assuming permanent seats, and with an expanded number of rotating seats, would better enable the Council to…
I, too, want to welcome Special Representative Ngongi’s introduction of the Secretary-General’s report, which we also commend. We also welcome the presentation by Foreign Minister She Okitundu and we are glad to see him back here. We hope that we will be able to meet with the Minister’s colleagues f…
We are meeting today just blocks from the ashes of the World Trade Center towers. The appalling acts of terrorism on 11 September underscore the fact that terrorists will use any lethal means accessible to kill innocent civilians. The countrymen of many of the States represented here were murdered o…
We would like to welcome our Somali friends, Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galaydh and other members of the transitional Government back to the Security Council, and express to them our desire to work with all Somalis of goodwill on the difficult but necessary task of rebuilding their country. We thank …
I am most grateful for the opportunity to address the General Assembly for the first time on this historic day. On behalf of the host nation, I want to express heartiest congratulations on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and to the United Nations. That aw…
I want to thank Special Representative Haekkerup for that not just comprehensive, but even eloquent explanation of where we are in this process, where we need to go and, more importantly, where the people Kosovo need to go in the future.
The upcoming elections are a watershed event and my Governmen…
This session of the General Assembly, as members all know, was meant to implement the Millennium Declaration, issued one year ago this month. In it, we declared certain fundamental values to be essential to international relations in the twenty-first century: freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance…
The United States Government believes that the Government of Sudan has taken substantial steps to meet the specific demands of Security Council resolution 1054 (1996). We note with concern, however, that the suspects wanted in connection with the 1995 assassination attempt on President Mubarak in Ad…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report. He has underscored the importance of the United Nations agenda and the work that the United Nations is committed to; and that the entire membership has a new and overarching challenge after 11 September.
My delegation would like to extend …
We, too, are very grateful for the briefings that we have received. We are encouraged that there is at least some information in the report that indicates that there are elements of the situation that have been improving — particularly the decrease in political violence and in human rights abuses.
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Given the lateness of the hour, I will be brief.
I would like to thank our two visitors for the briefings they gave us today. I think they have given us a great deal to think about as we look at how to go ahead with the international community’s continuing responsibility to support the implementati…
I would like to start by saluting the efforts of all parties engaged in the realization of this important high-level dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership. I would like to thank the United Nations organizations, the donors, the various Gover…
I want to thank the Secretary-General, the members of the Council and you, Mr. President, for their kind words, their support and resolve and their condolences to the American people on this dark day. We appreciate the many expressions of concern and support that we have received from around the wor…
First, on behalf of the United States, I, too, would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session and to pledge my Government’s support for the success of this session.
Obviously, the hearts of all Americans are heavy today. …
I think the presence of the Secretary-General with us today signifies the import of the event that we are here discussing and commemorating. This is truly a rare
example of good news and encouraging news, a cause for quite a bit of satisfaction. We now have democracy serving solidly as a base for m…
First, I would like to assure you, Sir, that I take every opportunity I can, here or outside the United Nations, to enjoy Colombian coffee. We are very grateful and pleased at your presence here and at the leadership of the Colombian delegation during this month. Here, we associate ourselves fully w…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting, which we see as a prelude to an important set of Security Council deliberations on the crisis in the Great Lakes region. We are glad to see that your delegation has been working with those of the next two Presidents in order to e…
I too would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his detailed briefing on the progress of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in implementing resolution 1244 (1999). We commend the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Hans Haekkerup, for addr…
