I am grateful to you for convening this meeting, Mr. President, and would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing on the outbreak of hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
In our meeting on Wednesday, 21 January
(see S/PV. 7365), the Angolan delegation expressed its
position on t…
We are grateful to the Algerian delegation for organizing this meeting. We welcome your presiding over this important debate, Sir, on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and we thank Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland for his valuable introduction to this debate.
We endorse the platform…
I would like to join previous speakers in expressing our gratitude to Ambassador Mihnea Motoc, Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), for his first report on the activities of, and results achieved by, the Committee since its inception.
By adopting resolution 1540…
I would like to start by thanking the President for convening this debate. Likewise, I wish to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda for their assessments and reports presented to the Security Council pursuant to resolut…
I would like to welcome and to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Timor-Leste, Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, for his comprehensive presentation of the report of the Secretary-General. We express our heartfelt appreciation for the progress achieved by the Timorese people, as portra…
Like previous speakers, the Angolan delegation regrets with great sadness the death of President Yasser Arafat, historic leader of the Palestinian people. We express our condolences and solidarity to the Palestinian people in this hour of pain and grief, in the expectation that they will overcome th…
Today, the Security Council is meeting four years after the adoption of its important resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. It is an occasion on which to assess the progress achieved and the gaps and challenges remaining in the implementation of the resolution. The presence of dis…
I would like at the outset to express my satisfaction at seeing you, Sir, presiding over the Security Council. We would also like to convey our congratulations to the Ambassador of Spain and the Spanish delegation for their excellent work during the month of September.
We would like to thank you, M…
At the outset we would like to express our regrets for the air accidents yesterday in the Russian Federation. Please convey to your Government and to the relatives of the victims the condolences of the Angolan delegation.
We thank you, Sir, for convening this public meeting to consider the report o…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the situation in Timor-Leste. We also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hédi Annabi, for his comprehensive presentation of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2004/669), and we thank the Special Representat…
At the outset, we congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the Presidency of the Security Council. We extend our delegation’s full cooperation to the presidency. We also take this occasion to congratulate Ambassador Mihnea Motoc and the Romanian delegation for the excellent work accomp…
Madam President, I wish at the outset to welcome you and to express my delegation’s appreciation to the Philippine delegation for convening this important meeting on the role of civil society in post-conflict peace-building. My delegation welcomes the participation of the Secretary- General and the …
We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, Mr. Vuk Drascovic, and his participation in the current meeting of the Security Council. We thank Mr. Harri Holkeri for his briefing introducing the report of the Secretary- General (S/2004/348), and we commend the United Nations …
At the outset, I want to convey the condolences of the Angolan delegation to the Russian Government and to the families of the victims of yesterday’s terrorist bomb attack in Grozny, Chechnya.
We are grateful for the convening of this meeting on the situation in Timor-Leste. We welcome and thank Mr…
The people of Cyprus and its constituent communities will, on 24 April, experience a moment of challenge and faith. They are called to decide on the foundation of a new State, the end of a decades-long conflict, the establishment of new relations between the two communities and the international pos…
The Security Council is again holding an emergency session, for the second time in less than a month, to consider the critical situation in Palestine.
Again, we meet in circumstances of pain and sorrow, with blind terror and violence taking the upper hand and the attempts to move forward with a mea…
Please accept our congratulations, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. You can be assured of our full cooperation. We take this opportunity to congratulate the Chilean delegation on its successful stewardship of the Council during the month of January.
We join previou…
Mr. President, we thank you for convening this meeting on the situation in Bougainville. We extend our thanks to Assistant Secretary-General Danilo Türk for his briefing on the recent developments on the island. We share his analysis and conclusions.
We cannot but express satisfaction for the progr…
We welcome the important debate that the Security Council is holding today. We thank Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland for his comprehensive briefing on an issue of the utmost importance in contemporary life, characterized by the increasing number of asymmetrical wars, in which civilians are the m…
We welcome the presence among us of the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. Jacob Zuma. We thank him for his briefing on the current situation in Burundi, prospects for peace in that country and the efforts deployed by the African countries with a view to bringing peace to Burundi.…
