At the outset, I would like to thank Ambassador Ranko Vilović, Ambassador Jorge Urbina and you, Mr. President, for the very comprehensive briefings on the work of the Security Council Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1373 (2001), 1540 (2004) and 1267 (1999), respectively, during the si…
First of all, I would like to thank Ambassador Thomas Mayr- Harting, Permanent Representative of Austria and President of the Security Council for the month of November, for presenting the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly (A/64/2).
The Vietnamese delegation wishes to al…
I thank the Austrian presidency for taking the initiative of convening this open debate of the Council on the important issue of protection of civilians in armed conflict. I thank the Secretary-General, the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the Deputy High Commissioner for Human …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, on behalf of the Vietnamese delegation, for convening this meeting to discuss the report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, also known as the Goldstone report (A/HRC/12/48).
My delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by…
I thank you, Madam, and Ambassador Susan Rice personally, as well as the United States delegation for your efforts to strengthen the Council’s commitment to combating sexual violence in armed conflict. The implementation of resolution 1820 (2008) since its adoption last year has achieved meaningful …
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting, and I thank Mr. Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), whose work we commend and continue to support, for his updated briefing on the situation in Af…
At this first open meeting of the Council during the month of September, I would like to extend to you, Madam, and to the rest of the United States delegation our warmest congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month.
I would like also to convey to Ambassador Jo…
Mr. President, at the outset, on behalf of the Vietnamese delegation, I would like to congratulate you on your election as President of this sixty-third session of the General Assembly and pledge to you our fullest cooperation with a view to contributing to its success.
I thank the Secretary-Genera…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on the first report of the Secretary-General (S/2009/362) on the implementation of resolution 1820 (2008). I am also thankful to the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report and his highly focused briefing today.
More than a year ago,…
At the outset, I would like to extend to you, Mr. President, and the United Kingdom delegation our congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would like to thank Ambassador Rugunda and the Ugandan delegation for their effective leadership of the wo…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Ould Abdallah for his briefing. I welcome the participation in the Council’s meeting today of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Somalia and the Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union, and I thank them for their presentations.
My delegation is plea…
I would like to thank Mr. Angelo for his briefing. My delegation is deeply concerned about the tense security situation in eastern Chad, especially after the military operations by rebel groups against Government forces last May. We are also troubled by the deteriorating security situation in the ar…
At the outset, I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco for his detailed and comprehensive briefing, his first before the Council.
Over the past six months the situation in the Middle East has remained worrisome. Almost no progress has been made on the implementation of S…
I would like to start by thanking the President of the General Assembly for his persistent efforts to solicit views from a broad range of sectors in preparation for this series of plenary meetings. I thank the Secretary- General for his report on the responsibility to protect (R2P) (A/63/677), which…
At the outset, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Le Roy for his comprehensive briefing. I welcome the presence and participation of Mr. Mikhail Margelov, Special Representative of the Russian President, in the Council’s meeting today.
More than a year and a half have elapsed since the i…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the convening of this important thematic debate. I should also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for introducing his report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2009/304).
Since the inception of the A…
My delegation wishes to sincerely thank Justice Renate Winter, President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Prosecutor Stephen Rapp for their briefings to the Council on the activities of the Special Court, in particular the implementation of its completion
strategy. The Vietnamese delegati…
I wish to join other Council members in thanking the Secretary- General for his descriptive briefing on his Myanmar visit 10 days ago. We are particularly appreciative of and grateful for the Secretary-General’s personal efforts and commitment in making this visit, given his very tight schedule. I a…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ms. Susana Malcorra, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, for their insightful briefings. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Somalia for his statement. My delegatio…
I thank you very much, Sir, for convening this meeting. While there are only several hours remaining before the official conclusion of your presidency for the month, I wish to join other colleagues in congratulating you and your team on the excellence with which you have lead and conducted the work …
