I should, of course, like to thank Mr. Pascoe for his briefing and to welcome Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki as well as the Permanent Representative of Israel. We thank them for their significant contributions to our deliberations.
The situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palest…
Mr. President, I would like, on behalf of the delegation of Burkina Faso, to congratulate you warmly on assuming the presidency of the Council and to assure your delegation of our full support. We also take this opportunity to congratulate the delegation of the United States of America on its very f…
Burkina Faso wishes to echo the words of the President and the other Security Council members in conveying our gratitude to Ms. Norma Chan. Our delegation has benefited from her availability and professionalism, and together we are profoundly grateful to her. We wish her a peaceful retirement — in a…
We thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s debate on such an important issue. We also thank the Secretary-General for introducing his first report (S/2009/362) pursuant to resolution 1820 (2008), and welcome the relevant analyses and recommendations it contains.
Sexual violence is among the most hei…
Allow me, on behalf of the delegation of Burkina Faso, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month, and to pay a well-deserved tribute to the delegation of Uganda for the effectiveness with which it steered the work of the Council in July.
I would al…
The delegation of Burkina Faso voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted to us because we wanted, at this stage, for the United Nations to be able to maintain a presence in the region without the mission finding itself in legal limbo. The parties would then have had an opportunity to pursue …
Burkina Faso, which is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and actively advocates the timely entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, voted in favour of resolution 1874 (2009), which we have just adopted, because it firmly believes in the need for …
Burkina Faso welcomes the adoption by this Council of resolution 1871 (2009), a resolution that extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), whose actions we unreservedly support. When on 22 April the Council considered the issue of Western Sahara…
I would like to thank you personally, Madame President, and the Mexican delegation — the new Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict — for having organized this open debate on such an important issue as the protection of children in armed conflict.
We note the presence this mornin…
I should like to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for having presented the report of the Secretary-General on enhancing mediation and its support activities (S/2009/189). We are grateful to the Secretary-General for having submitted the report, whose main recommendations we support.
My delegation, which assoc…
I should like to join preceding speakers in
thanking Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his presentation on the situation in the Middle East. I am particularly grateful for the important information with which he provided us.
As the Security Council meets once again to consider the situation in the Middle East, …
My delegation would like to join others in welcoming the presence at this debate of President José Ramos-Horta. I would like in particular to thank him for his important and encouraging statement. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his decision to personally introduce his report (S/2009/…
We should like to join you, Mr. President, in paying tribute to Ambassador Khalilzad and in expressing our good wishes for his future endeavours.
With respect to the resolution that we have just adopted, we would like to thank the delegation of the United States of America for its leadership in the…
I wish at the outset to thank Mr. António Guterres for his very instructive briefing. We are grateful to him and to the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for their dedication and their leadership in protecting and assisting refugees.
The ongoing scourg…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Serry for his briefing. My delegation is also grateful to the representatives of Palestine and Israel for their contributions.
Only two days ago, the Security Council adopted resolution 1850 (2008) on the situation in the Middle East. That important resolution invite…
Allow me first of all to thank Under- Secretary-General Holmes for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in the Sudan and Chad. We are especially grateful to him for visiting the region, which of course has enabled him to have first-hand information. We would also like to thank the Permanent Re…
I thank Mr. Menkerios, Mr. Zenenga and Mr. Mitropoulos for their illuminating briefings. Our thanks go also to the Permanent Representative of Somalia and to the Permanent Observer of the African Union for their statements this morning.
Let me begin by reaffirming my delegation’s firm condemnation …
I too wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, and to thank you, along with Ambassador Grauls and Ambassador Jurica, in your respective capacities as Chairmen of the three Security Council Committees in the field of counter-terrorism, both for your briefings this morning and for the cooperation that…
We should like to express our gratitude to your delegation, Mr. President, for having organized this debate on the full-fledged and equal participation of women in peacekeeping, peacebuilding and security efforts. I should also like to thank the Secretary- General for his report (S/2008/622) and Ms.…
Burkina Faso is deeply concerned at the escalation of violence in South Ossetia, which has already claimed numerous victims. We urgently appeal to the parties to observe an immediate cessation of hostilities. We urge them to favour dialogue in order to reach a negotiated settlement of their dispute,…
