I join other Council members in thanking the Secretary-General for his report (S/2009/135) and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Kai Eide, for his important updated briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. I also welcome Ambassador Tanin to the Council.
More than seven years…
Mr. President, at the outset, I would like to extend to you my most heartfelt congratulations on your appointment as the new head of the Libyan delegation. I thank the Libyan presidency for convening this important debate of the Security Council. I welcome the participation of Secretary-General Ban …
On behalf of the Vietnamese delegation, I would like to thank the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Iraq and the work of the United Nations in that country (S/2009/102). I wel…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this debate of the Council on Timor- Leste. I welcome President José Ramos Horta of Timor-Leste to the Council and thank him for his very important statement. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his presence and for his report (S/2009/72), which cover…
As this is the first open meeting of the Council in February, I join others in extending to you, Sir, and the Japanese delegation our congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month.
I would also like to extend to Ambassador Ripert and the French delegation our si…
We too wish to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate. We also thank Under-Secretaries-General Alain Le Roy and Susana Malcorra and Special Representative Hédi Annabi for their respective statements. We also join previous speakers in expressing the best of wishes to Ambassador Buta…
I join other speakers in thanking you, Sir, for convening this important meeting. I also thank Under-Secretary- General John Holmes for his informative briefing and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for its efforts in preparing the updated aide- memoire on the protection…
My delegation would like to have seen a resolution with more clear- cut language, providing for an immediate ceasefire and an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, which we consider essential for putting an early end to the current crisis and relieving the innocent Palestinian people of …
I, too, thank the French presidency for convening this meeting, which, we believe, serves as a good preparatory step to contribute to the open debate of the Security Council planned for next week on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. I welcome High Commissioner Guterres to the Council a…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important and timely meeting of the Security Council and for personally presiding over it. I also wish to thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his statement, as well as President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority and the foreign mi…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this urgent meeting. We also thank the Secretary-General for his presence and for his statement.
My delegation is following with grave concern and great regret the current dire situation in the Gaza Strip, where unjustifiable violence and attacks against b…
I join previous speakers in thanking Mr. Robert Serry for his informative and detailed briefing.
As the Council is reviewing a month that saw a wide array of developments across the region, my delegation recognizes the commitment of Palestine and Israel to carrying forward bilateral negotiations in…
At the outset, Sir, on behalf of the Vietnamese delegation, I would like to thank you for chairing this important meeting. We acknowledge the presence of the high-ranking officials around the table and in the Chamber. My delegation wishes to welcome in particular the Foreign Minister of the Transiti…
On behalf of the Vietnamese delegation, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on the situation in the Middle East. This meeting once again demonstrates our joint commitment to addressing a very important issue of international peace and security, namely the q…
We too have the honour to give an explanation of our vote. We have voted in favour of the resolution on the basis of the request made to the Security Council by Somalia with respect to support for the countries of the region in efforts to suppress piracy in the waters off the coast of Somalia.
We w…
My delegation wishes to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the two International Criminal Tribunals, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), for their briefings before the Council on the activities that the …
Let me first express our appreciation of Croatia’s initiative in organizing this thematic debate. We welcome in particular your presence in New York, Mr. President, to preside over this meeting. It demonstrates your country’s strong dedication to the work of the Security
Council, as well as to the …
My delegation thanks Mr. Lajčák, the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the thirty-fourth report submitted to the Secretary-General and for his briefing on the situation on the ground. We also welcome to the Council Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairma…
As it has clearly stated on many occasions, Viet Nam is deeply concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, where more than 1.5 million Palestinians continue to suffer from a lack of food and medicine, the suspension of electricity and fuel supplies, the halting of services in h…
We wish to thank Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his comprehensive briefing. We are also very grateful to the Permanent Representative of Chad for his statement.
My delegation shares the concerns expressed about the grave situa…
