I join previous speakers in welcoming Ambassador Menkerios and the other members of the Committee of Experts and in congratulating them on the quality of their report, which was submitted most promptly. I also echo their praise for the leadership of Ambassador Valdivieso as Chairman of the sanctions…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his statement, which contained some good news.
I shall confine myself to putting a question to him, echoing what Ambassador Kuchinsky has just said about the work of the Boundary Commission. In paragraph 6 of resolution 1344 (2001), which we adopted a mo…
Last February, in resolution 1291 (2000), our Council authorized the phase two deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). Nine months later the implementation of this peacekeeping operation remains blocked by the persistence of hostilities,…
My delegation would like to associate itself with the two preceding speakers in thanking Mr. Annabi and also in pointing out that we are quite aware of the magnitude and the difficulty of the tasks the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) is facing, as well as of the und…
The Security Council, in resolution 955 (1994), entrusted the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with the mission of prosecuting, trying and punishing the persons responsible for acts of genocide committed in 1994 in Rwanda. No one can underestimate the importance of this task, nor its diffi…
