I should like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his report, as well as Ambassador Sharma, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing.
The general situation in East Timor is encouraging. Under the leadership of the Government of Timor-Leste, and with the act…
The Chinese delegation is in favour of adjustments to the Goods Review List and the relevant procedures with a view to improving the humanitarian situation in Iraq. In this spirit, we took part in the consultations on the draft resolution and proposed a number of amendments. We note that China’s ame…
At the outset, I would like to welcome you, Mr. President, as you chair this public meeting today.
Recently, the Security Council mission successfully visited Ethiopia and Eritrea and presented a report, thereby demonstrating the Council’s firm support of and commitment to the peace process in Ethi…
I will be very brief. First of all, like other colleagues, I would like to thank Mr. Oshima for his briefing. We would also like to thank Mr. Georges Chikoti, Vice-Minister for External Relations of Angola, for his important statement.
The humanitarian situation in Angola is a source of great conce…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting. Like other delegations, we would like to thank Mr. Lubbers for his detailed briefing, in particular his overview of the situation in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Bal…
First, we wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report. We also thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Guéhenno, for his briefing today.
The smooth holding of Assembly elections throughout Kosovo was an important step in the Kosovo peace process. We express our appreciation to the United Nati…
As far as the Security Council is concerned, December is usually regarded as a relatively easy month. However,
this month we carried out a great deal of substantive work. Although we are almost 10 days away from the end of the month, we can now say with great conviction that the work of the Council…
We should like to thank Under-Secretary-General Gambari for his briefing on the situation in Angola. We appreciate his efforts to promote peace in that country. The peace process in Angola is currently in the process of changing and Mr. Gambari has said that there is now
a window of hope. The situa…
Several things about our work in November were unique. For one, great changes have taken place in the situation in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that the Council’s
schedule was very tight this month, the presidency still made timely arrangements for briefings and discussions. That illustrates the i…
We also welcome the presence of the Secretary-General at this very important meeting. We thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno for his important briefing, as do the other members of the Council, concerning the successful holding of elections for the Constituent Assembly. We wish to express our gra…
Like other delegations, we wish to thank Under-Secretary- General Guéhenno for his briefing this morning.
The Chinese delegation is very pleased with the positive developments, in particular the establishment of the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ).
As Mr. Legwaila has said, the establishment of the …
At the outset we would like to thank the Secretary-General for
his report as well the briefing by the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Annabi. We welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Goran Svilanovic, and welcome his statement.
After local elections in Kosovo, the situatio…
The Chinese delegation will vote in favour of the draft resolution, because while Iraq is still under comprehensive sanctions extending the oil-for-food programme is the only effective means to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the Iraqi people.
It must be pointed out that in certain areas th…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. McAskie of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for her presentation.
We are now in the third year since the outbreak of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has left millions of people displaced and homeless.…
First, I would like to thank you, Mr President, for presiding over this meeting. We would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report and the statement he just made. We appreciate the efforts made by the Netherlands to promote the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Since the Ag…
First of all, we would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his very extensive briefing.
We welcome the successful holding of elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina and appreciate the large amount of work done by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the part…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his briefing. We would like to make the following observations regarding the situation in Kosovo.
First, the situation in Kosovo, and in particular the personal safety and security of Serbs and other ethnic minorities, ha…
We wish first of all to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Miyet, for his briefing. The Chinese delegation notes that there have been some improvements in the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the last time the Security Council met on this item. The United Nat…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank the Secretary- General for submitting to us his report on the question of Ethiopia and Eritrea. We would also like to thank Mr. Miyet for the briefing he has just given us. We also wish to thank the President and the Malaysian delegation for arranging this …
I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Annabi for his briefing. We have taken note of the progress achieved by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) under very difficult circumstances, especially in the areas of infrastructure reconstruction, institution-building, the …
