We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. We would also like to thank the
representatives of the League of Arab States, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Israel for their respective statements. We are pleased that we were able to accommodate the request for this meeting this …
We would first like to congratulate Burkina Faso on organizing this debate on mediation and settlement of disputes. Of course, we are pleased to see President Compaore presiding over this meeting. We also thank the Secretary-General and Mr. Brahimi for their informative remarks.
When the African Un…
My delegation wishes to associate itself with the statements made by the representative of Kenya on behalf of the African Group and by the representative of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Also, my delegation wishes to thank the Secretary-General for his three reports on…
Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to you and your facilitators for having guided us in the very difficult task of leading us to
where we are. I also wish to pay tribute to the more than 60 delegations that were very quick and willing to sign up in support of your report.
I think today is a wond…
It is an honour to participate in this review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, which was adopted under resolution 60/288. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Ambassador Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala for his facilitation of the informal consultations that preceded this…
South Africa has followed developments in Georgia over the past few months with concern, especially because of their implications for the stability of the Caucasus region as a whole and their impact on bilateral relations between Georgia and its neighbours, in particular the Russian Federation. On n…
We too welcome the participation of the Secretary-General in our debate today. My delegation also wishes to associate itself with the statement that Cuba will make on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, a statement that goes to great lengths to point out some of the working methods that need to be c…
South Africa is deeply concerned by the developments over the past few days, which have seen the breakdown of negotiations and an escalation of violence between Georgia and South Ossetia. Those developments have a destabilizing impact on the region and have contributed to the deterioration of relati…
We join others in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We also thank the delegation of Viet Nam for the good work done last month. In addition, we thank Mr. Pascoe, the representative of the United States and the Permanent Representative of Iraq for …
I would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Hisashi Owada, for his presentation of the Court’s report (A/64/4). I also extend our warmest congratulations to him on his assumption of the presidency of the Court. At the same time, we congratulate Judge Rosalyn Higg…
On behalf of South Africa, allow me to express our deep gratitude to the members of the General Assembly for unanimously approving the appointment of Judge Navanethem Pillay as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for a term of office of four years beginning 1 September 2008 and exp…
Once again, we welcome the participation of Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister of Serbia, to our Council deliberations. We
also welcome Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and thank him for his briefing. In addition, we welcome the participation of Mr. Skender Hyse…
We too wish to thank Mr. Pascoe, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his briefing on the developments in the region over the past month. My delegation also aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Let me…
We, too, thank Mr. Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal and head of the United Nations Mission in that country, for his comprehensive briefing and for introducing the latest report (S/2008/454) on the request of Nepal for United Nations assistance in support of its pe…
We too commend the delegation of Viet Nam for organizing this open thematic debate on children and armed conflict. We particularly wish to thank the Deputy Prime Minister for coming to New York to preside over our meeting today. We thank all those who have participated earlier on in this debate, but…
Earlier this morning, a joint media statement by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) facilitator, the representative of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was issued in Pretoria. The statement reads:
“The talks be…
We, too, thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Kai Eide, for presenting the special report of the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 1806 (2008) on the United Nati…
Allow me also to welcome the Prime Minister of Djibouti and thank him for visiting us in New York. We still have very fond memories of the hospitable and gracious way in which the Government of Djibouti treated us when we visited that country. We are very thankful for that. We also welcome the Minis…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting. Let me also welcome the Special Envoys, Mr. Jan Eliasson, whom I
choose to remember in his capacity as President of the General Assembly, and, of course, Mr. Salim Ahmed Salim, who will forever be associated with the Organization of African Uni…
We commend the United States for organizing this open thematic debate on sexual violence in conflict situations, and we thank Secretary Rice for presiding over the meeting today.
Since its creation, the United Nations has grappled with the issue of sexual violence committed against women and girls …
