I shall be very brief, because I fully agree with the report that Ambassador Sawers has just given. However, there is one issue that I want to highlight. In my humble opinion, the Council needs to pay much more attention to the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). I was …
I have the honour to report on the portion of Security Council trip that dealt with the issues of Somalia and Sudan. As you have already stated, Mr. President, I had the honour to co-lead that segment with my colleague, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom.
To start with my own conclu…
We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq to this meeting. We thank Mr. Warren Sach, representative from the United Nations to the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) and Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari for their briefings, and you, Mr. President, for the briefing on…
I stand before this gathering to represent President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa, who unfortunately could not attend this very important meeting because of prior commitments. He sends all of us good wishes for success in our deliberations. It is therefore a great honour and privilege…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica for his participation in this Council meeting today. We also wish to welcome the new Permanent Representative of Belgium to the Council.
Allow me to express the appreciation of my delegation to the Prosecutor of the Int…
My delegation wishes to thank Judge Fausto Pocar, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Judge Dennis Byron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), for their statements introducing the respective reports of their Tribunals. We are a…
We congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council, and we also congratulate the delegation of the United Kingdom on its excellent stewardship of the Council during the month of May.
We welcome the adoption of resolution 1816 (2008) today. In negotiating and agreeing to th…
My delegation wishes to thank the United Kingdom presidency for organizing this open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We also commend the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. John Holmes, for briefing the Council.
In armed co…
First of all, let me express my delegation’s appreciation to the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting. The call by the heads of State and Government in paragraph 143 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1) for States to commit themselves to the discussion on and de…
Allow me to begin by thanking the delegation of the United Kingdom for organizing today’s debate. South Africa aligns itself with the statement to be made later by the
representative of Jamaica on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
In December 2005, the General Assembly and the Security Cou…
We also welcome the High Representative to the Security Council, and we appreciate his comprehensive report updating the Council on the current environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also thank Mr. Špirić for his statement.
We wish to reconfirm our support for the High Representative and the pol…
We thank the United Kingdom for organizing this open briefing on security sector reform (SSR) and welcome the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Securing peace and development: the role of the United Nations in supporting security sector reform” (S/2008/39). My delegation wishes to welcome th…
Let me begin by thanking the Secretary-General for having come to this meeting earlier and Mr. Lynn Pascoe for briefing the Security Council on this very important subject.
My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be delivered later today by the Permanent Representative of Cuba on behalf o…
We, too, wish to thank Mr. Mike Smith, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), for his informative briefing on his organizational plan. It is absolutely crucial that CTED assess the manner in which it has been executing its mandate and address problem area…
We abstained on this resolution because South Africa supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group towards the settlement of the dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia, specifically the Basic Principles for the Peaceful Settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh Conflict.
As a member of the United Nations, …
We join others in congratulating Mr. Kai Eide of Norway on his appointment as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We are confident that under his leadership the United Nations will continue …
South Africa regrets that the sponsors of the draft resolution have persisted with the same substantive text that they had tabled before the latest report of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was even issued and hence, the draft resolution appears not to adequatel…
Let me thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate on the situation in Timor-Leste. We also thank His Excellency Ambassador Nelson Santos, Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste, for his informative statement on the situation in his country.
We had hoped to hear directly today from Pri…
We voted in favour of this draft resolution even though we would have preferred that the Council defer taking a decision on this matter until we have received the Secretary-General’s report, as requested in resolution 1772 (2007) and once again in a presidential statement later that same year, adopt…
My delegation wishes to welcome the President of the Republic of Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Tadić, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Jeremić, to the Council. We thank President Tadić for his briefing to this emergency session, which we fully support. My delegation also wishes to welcome the participatio…
