At the outset, permit me to congratulate you, Sir, on your work as President of the Security Council for the month of August and to express the satisfaction of my delegation at the decision to hold a meeting on Timor-Leste. I would also like, through you, to welcome Foreign Minister Zacarias Albano …
I should like to join previous speakers in thanking High Representative Lord Ashdown for his thorough briefing on Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also thank him and the staff of his Office for the tireless efforts they have been making since 2002. Finally, we wish him and his team all the best in their f…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this timely briefing. I also express my appreciation to Mr. James Morris, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), for the information he has provided us.
As we observed in the recent debate on the protection of civilians in armed…
My delegation would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Didace Kiganahe, Minister of Justice of Burundi, and to thank him for taking the time to come to New York to state his Government’s views on the recommendations of the Kalomoh report (S/2005/158). I also wish to express our appreciation for the …
First, I wish to thank the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judge Theodor Meron and Judge Erik Møse, as well as Prosecutors Carla Del Ponte and Hassan Bubacar Jallow, for their thorough repor…
I wish to thank Special Representative Jessen-Petersen for providing us thorough information on the current situation in Kosovo. My delegation continues to appreciate and support his work and that of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We consider that his balanced t…
