It gives me great pleasure to welcome Ambassador Klein back to the Council. He has done an outstanding job of reinvigorating the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) with a vibrant, results-
oriented concept of operations, and we are grateful for his dedication and work.
We fu…
I want to begin by expressing my high admiration for Bernard Kouchner and for the extraordinary service he has performed in Kosovo for the United Nations and for the world over the last year. I hope you manage to stay forever, Bernard, because nobody could do better than you. But I know you do not i…
I simply wanted to say that our work on, and support for, this unanimous resolution results from my delegation's concern for the difficult circumstances that the people of Iraq find themselves in while the Iraqi Government fails to comply with Security Council resolutions.
I would like to associate…
It is a great pleasure to see you, Sir, at the helm of this meeting, my old colleague from other days, now in your first presidency. I wish also to pay tribute to the extraordinarily strong leadership of Ambassador Wang Yingfan and the Chinese delegation during the tumultuous month of May, in which,…
We support the Secretary-General in his efforts, as embodied in the observations and recommendations in his report, to find a peaceful, sustainable solution to the long-standing dispute in Western Sahara, and urge other members of the Council to do the same.
We support the Secretary-General’s propo…
We support the draft resolution before us today, which, among other things, welcomes and endorses the report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. We note the valuable role of the Special Committee in identifying practical measures to enhance the capacity of the United Nations to cond…
I want once again to commend Assistant Secretary- General Annabi and his team, particularly the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello, for a historic job that they are performing under very difficult circumstances in East Timor. This has been one of the very difficult ch…
Allow me to apologize for my tardiness; as I was arriving here, the Secretary-General contacted me regarding the fast-moving developments in Sierra Leone concerning Mr. Foday Sankoh, who as we all know is at the airport area in Freetown. He is wounded; I believe he is receiving medical treatment fro…
The United States concurs with the Secretary-General’s assessment that the process which the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT) was created to support is now over. With the recent violence-free parliamentary elections, the transition set forth in the peace accords has been com…
We, too, want to join in thanking Ambassador Chowdhury, not only for his report, but also for his excellent service in guiding this important mission. We commend him and all of the members of the mission on a job well done and for
I also want to thank Ambassadors Levitte and Eldon for reminding us …
I also want to thank High Representative Petritsch for his briefing to us today and to welcome him back here. We applaud the fact that he has been aggressive and effective in addressing some of Dayton’s most difficult issues.
We note in particular Bosnia’s recent municipal elections, which were con…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his second valuable and comprehensive report in the past month on this issue. We are very grateful to him and to you, Mr. President, for your efforts and for your leadership, Sir, in calling for this meeting today.
Before I comment on East Timor, with …
To the Deputy Secretary-General and Foreign Minister Axworthy, we are delighted that you are here. I also understand we have some Model United Nations students in the gallery, so welcome — I hope you are inspired today to follow us all.
This morning we are here to discuss a very difficult, but a ve…
I thank you once again, Mr. President, for coming from far-away Canada to chair this important meeting. I am delighted to see that you have some members of the Canadian legislature here with you today. We have been lucky enough to have had many members of the United States Congress here with us in t…
My Government heartily welcomes this discussion of sanctions policy. Our shared objective should be the design and implementation of effective sanctions regimes that promote desired results. It is our hope that the informal working group on sanctions, which we are establishing today, will help us go…
I would like to thank you again, Mr. Minister, for coming back from Canada to chair this important meeting. I accept the mandate of the Security Council to lead this mission and am delighted that the membership of it is shaping up. I think it would be useful to note that a prior mission to Kosovo wi…
It is my pleasure to address the General Assembly today on what many of us recognize to be a critical issue before the membership, something that, if properly structured, will ensure the future viability of this institution: the assessment scale. Over the past several months, our delegation has had …
I am particularly honoured to be here today, under your presidency, Sir, at this important meeting, and I am delighted that you intend to spend so much of the month of Canada’s presidency of the Security Council with us here in New York. We greatly look forward to working under your leadership. I al…
I thank Mr. Prendergast for his briefing at a very important time in the development of democratic institutions in Guinea-Bissau. We welcome today’s Secretariat briefing and the recent release of the Secretary-General’s latest report on Guinea- Bissau. They indeed highlight a situation where timely …
The Council has three goals today: to review the sanctions on Iraq, to examine the state of Iraq’s oil production capacity and look to allocations in that field, and to assess progress on the humanitarian sections of resolution 1284 (1999). Taking a comprehensive look at the humanitarian situation t…
