I would like to join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his briefing this morning and in extending thanks to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2004/669), which provides a most useful update on progress towards the completion of the mandate of the United Nations Mission o…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting, and to the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) for his briefing.
Like others, we would like to take this opportunity to offer our best wishes to the new Chairman of the CTC, Ambassador Konuzin of Russia, and to t…
Through you, Sir, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the
German presidency for its work last month. Like others, we offer you best wishes for this month.
We are grateful for today’s debate and for Mr. Türk’s briefing. The United Kingdom congratulates all those in-country, from the reg…
I should like to begin by complimenting you, Sir, on the early months of your chairmanship of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). We are grateful for what you have done. We endorse the work programme that you have set out for the next 90 days and the principles that guide this. I will associate m…
We are grateful for the reports before the Council and for today’s briefing. We share the revulsion of others at the abuses we have heard described and at the lack of respect for human life that they represent. We have heard about rape and mutilation being used as weapons of war, and about pillage b…
The United Kingdom associates itself with the European Union statement to be given shortly by the Italian Ambassador. We welcome this opportunity to reiterate our support for Council resolution 1244 (1999) as the basis for the international community’s policy on Kosovo.
Kosovo has come a long way s…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report and to David Stephen and Ambassador Kumalo for their very helpful introductory remarks today.
The situation in Guinea-Bissau is very worrying. The political process appears to be stuck. We are disappointed at the lack of progress on the promul…
We are grateful for today’s briefing.
The United Kingdom fully associates itself with the statement that will be made later by the representative of Greece on behalf of the European Union and its acceding and associated countries.
If I may, I just want to take this opportunity to take up three poi…