It is exactly a week since I last had the honour to address this Council. During that week we have all been watching hour by hour, on our television screens, the terrifying impact of modern weaponry on Iraq and its people.
We not only mourn the dead. We must also feel anguish for the living, and es…
Needless to say, I fully share the regrets expressed by many members of the Council at the fact that it has not been possible to reach a common position. Whatever our differing views on this complex issue, we must all feel that this is a sad day for the United Nations and the international community…
I would like to thank the Security Council for focusing its attention, even at this critical moment when all our minds are on Iraq, on a subject which is of great importance to the welfare and well-being of millions of people in another region of the world, namely West Africa.
The uncontrolled prol…
Today’s meeting of the Security Council shows the steady determination of the international community to address the scourge of terrorism. Your presence here at the ministerial level is a sign of the importance that the world places on dealing effectively with this global threat.
Terrorism is a men…
Let me also begin by wishing a happy and successful new year to all. This year promises to be a tough one, but I trust that we shall be up to the challenge.
I am grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the other members of the Council for holding this meeting to discuss my report on children and arm…
It is a great pleasure to be here at this Security Council meeting on the conclusion of the United Nations missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Prevlaka. Both these missions have successfully completed their mandates.
My report on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) d…
It is a pleasure to see you in New York, Madame President. I am very grateful to you for chairing this important meeting on how to strengthen the protection of civilians in armed conflict. This question is among the most urgent and most important for this Council and for the United Nations as a whol…
We have come together today to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Convention was a milestone for the rule of law and for the United Nations. Ambitious in scope and comprehensive in purpose, the Convention was designed to allocate amon…
The Security Council resolution adopted today has strengthened the cause of peace and given renewed impetus to the search for security in an increasingly dangerous world. The resolution sets out in clear terms Iraq’s obligation to cooperate with the United Nations in ensuring the full and final disa…
I am grateful for this opportunity to present my report, “Strengthening of the United Nations: an agenda for further change”.
As this Assembly well knows, one of my chief aims ever since I became Secretary-General has been to make the United Nations more useful to its Member States and to the peopl…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for your initiative in holding this meeting on women, peace and security.
Two years ago, the Security Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000), a landmark step in raising awareness of the impact of armed conflict on women and girls, and of the vital role w…
Today’s Security Council meeting reflects the Council’s determination to confront reality rather than escape from it; to recognize an evil rather than excuse it. The Council’s decision a year ago to establish the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was a swift and concrete reaction to the terrorist at…
Let met begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to present to the Assembly the first of my annual reports on progress achieved by the United Nations system and Member States towards implementing the Millennium Declaration. I shall do so briefly, because I believe the rep…
Less than a week ago, the Quartet met in this building and agreed on the need for a road map to achieve a permanent settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We agreed that it was essential and urgent for the Palestinians to take all possible steps to improve security by bringing an immediate …
I am delighted to join the Assembly for this important meeting dedicated to exploring ways in which the international community can support the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), so as to bring the maximum benefit to the people of Africa.
This partnership is first and foremost a part…
We cannot begin today without reflecting on yesterday’s anniversary and on the criminal challenge so brutally thrown in our faces on 11 September 2001.
The terrorist attacks of that day were not an isolated event. They were an extreme example of a global scourge, which requires a broad, sustained a…
I am happy that you are here, Mr. President, and that so many Foreign Ministers are also here in this Chamber to mark this solemn occasion with us.
September eleventh is one of those cataclysmic events — like the assassination of John F. Kennedy — that will stay forever fresh and vivid in our memor…
I shall be brief this morning. Let me say how happy I am to see the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda here this morning, as well as, of course, Minister Dlamini Zuma, representing South Africa, which co-facilitated this agreement.
I believe that the signing of the p…
Madam President, let me begin by welcoming you to United Nations Headquarters. I am very glad that you are with us today as we review the situation in Africa and in the Mano River subregion, and the lessons to be learned from our experiences in Sierra Leone. Indeed, if the prospects for Sierra Leone…
Today, the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) comes to an abrupt end for reasons that are unrelated to the vitally important work that it is performing to implement the Dayton Peace Agreement. The United Nations Mission has made a universally recognized contribu…
