Let me thank the delegation of Panama for convening this open debate on children and armed conflict. My delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for coming to New York to preside over this meeting as an indication of how your delegation takes this matter in all its seriousness. Allow me also to extend …
Mr. President, we thank you for conducting this meeting today. Let me welcome Mr. Jan Eliasson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Darfur, whom some of us prefer to remember fondly as President of the General Assembly. I also welcome Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peace…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening an open session today, and we also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Lynn Pascoe, for his briefing.
My Government was represented at the Annapolis meeting last November. We had welcomed the initiative of the United Sates for conv…
My delegation commends you, Mr. President, for convening this urgent Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, based on the letter dated 21 January 2008 from the Chargé d’affaires of the Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations a…
We, too, wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Iraq, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing on the report before us, as well as Ambassador Khalilzad of the United States for his briefing on the activities of the Multinational Force in Iraq (MNF-I).
While we welcom…
We welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ould Abdallah, and thank him for the sobering briefing. We also welcome the statement made by the representative of Somalia.
Clearly, the situation in Somalia is not getting any better. It is still characterized by a grave humanita…
South Africa was honoured that Ambassador Kumalo was afforded the opportunity to lead the Security Council mission that visited Timor-Leste from 24 November to 30 November 2007. As was explained last week during our briefing (see S/PV.5791), the purpose of the visit
was to address three issues: fir…
My delegation wishes to thank Mr. Fausto Pocar, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Mr. Dennis Byron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), for their statements introducing the work of the International Tribunals. We al…
South Africa was honoured to lead the Security Council mission to Timor-Leste, comprising six delegations, namely, China, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa and the United States of America. The mission left New York on 24 November and returned on 1 December 2007.
The purpose…
Let me thank Ambassador Holmes for briefing us this morning. I must say that the Under-Secretary-General has been very courageous in shining light on areas of the world that are facing great difficulty and we truly appreciate that.
The region that Mr. Holmes visited is the one that poses the bigges…
Let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency for the month of December, and assure you of my delegation’s support. Allow me also to thank the Ambassador of Indonesia for his sterling work in presiding over the Council during the month of November. I also wish to express my dele…
On a daily basis, Palestinians in the occupied territories continue to face an Israeli policy that violates the basic principles of international humanitarian law and international human
rights law. The reality is that Palestinians continue to live under an occupation that they have endured for dec…
We too join in welcoming the Facilitator for the Burundi Peace Process, His Excellency Mr. Charles Nqakula, and we thank him for his briefing to the Council.
South Africa notes with appreciation the important role the countries of the region, through the Regional Peace Initiative under the leadersh…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. We would like to welcome Mr. Jan Eliasson to New York and thank him for the briefing here today. We also thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for the presentation of the Secretary-General’s report.
The situation in Darfur has preoccupied t…
My delegation wishes to thank the Indonesian presidency for organizing this open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We also thank the Secretary General for having taken time from his busy schedule to join us in this debate. We wish also to commend Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secreta…
First of all, let me, like other representatives, express South Africa’s deepest sympathy to Bangladesh, which was subject to serious humanitarian disasters recently.
My delegation would like to express its appreciation for the reports of the Secretary-General provided under item 71, which offer a …
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to the Chairs of the three subsidiary bodies for their joint statement, as well as for the individual briefings relating to their mandates.
This is the second briefing of this nature to the Council this year on the important subject of anti-terrorism…
We too thank Mr. Gambari for his comprehensive briefing on his recent visit to Myanmar. His efforts on behalf of the good offices of the Secretary-General bear witness to the international community’s commitment to, and unwavering support for, peace and stability in Myanmar. South Africa fully suppo…
We would like first to express our appreciation to you, Sir, for participating and presiding over this meeting today. We also welcome the presence of the Secretary-General at this meeting.
We welcome this opportunity to once again deliberate the role of regional and subregional organizations in the…
Allow me to express the appreciation of my delegation to the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), His Excellency Judge Philippe Kirsch, for his statement in introducing the report of the International Criminal Court (see A/62/314) this morning.
The South African Government is a comm…
