I thank you, Sir, for convening this important debate on peacekeeping operations. I thank Under-Secretary-General Mr. Le Roy for his briefing and the respective Force Commanders of the United Nations Mission in Liberia, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic…
I thank you, Madam, for organizing this open debate. I thank the Secretary- General for his statement and Under-Secretary-General Holmes and High Commissioner Pillay for their briefings. We further thank Mr. Holmes for his dedicated service and wish him the very best in his future endeavours.
Ugand…
I wish to start by congratulating you, Madam, on having assumed the presidency of the Council for the month of July. I also thank Ambassador Heller and the delegation of Mexico for having ably presided over the Council during the month of June.
I welcome His Excellency Mr. Boris Tadić, President of…
We welcome and thank the Foreign Minister of Turkey for his informative statement. We also welcome the presence of the Deputy Secretary-General and thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing.
It was with shock that we received the reports of the Israeli attack on the human…
I would like to start by welcoming the participation of Deputy Secretary- General Asha-Rose Migiro, and to thank her for her statement. I also thank Mr. Antonio Maria Costa and Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma for their statements.
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons has had a devastating impac…
I would like to start by thanking Mr. Le Roy for his comprehensive briefing and Ambassador Tanin for his remarks.
The report of the Secretary-General (S/2010/127) highlights some important areas of progress in international and Afghan efforts over the past three
months, but it also recognizes that…
I wish to start by welcoming His Excellency Mr. Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia, and to thank him for his statement. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Lamberto Zannier, for…
We thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his comprehensive briefing. We also welcome His Excellency Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thank him for his statement.
Uganda commends the High Representative for…
We welcome the participation in today’s debate of the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, President Bill Clinton. We also welcome and thank the Prime Minister of Haiti, Mrs. Pierre-Louis, for her briefing. We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United N…
I wish to thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for organizing today’s debate on this very important subject. I wish also to welcome the Secretary-General and to thank him for the comprehensive report (S/2009/362) he has submitted on the implementation of resolution 1820 (2008).
At the outset,…
Uganda congratulates you, Mr. President, and the United Kingdom delegation on your assumption of the office of the President of the Security Council for the month of August. We also thank you for organizing this important debate and welcome the participation of United Nations force commanders. The t…
We too welcome Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and thank him for his briefing. We also thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, and Mr. Skender Hyseni for their briefings.
We welcome the new developments in the region regarding the recon…
From the outset, we have called for a unanimous decision of the Council on this important matter and have encouraged all parties concerned to resolve any differences in order to ensure that there is a United Nations presence on the ground. Uganda remains convinced that an international monitoring pr…
We, too, would like to start by welcoming Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone, to the Council and to thank her for her briefing. We also thank the Executive Representative of the Secretary- General and head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in S…
My delegation congratulates you, Sir, and Turkey on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of June, and I assure you of our delegation’s full cooperation and support. I also wish to thank Ambassador Churkin and the Russian delegation for ably steering the work of the Council during the…
My delegation voted in favour of renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for another year. But my delegation remains concerned about a number of issues in the human rights dimension raised in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2009/200 an…
We thank the Foreign Minister of Mexico for coming to New York to preside over this important meeting. We welcome the
Secretary-General’s comprehensive report (S/2009/158), which covers compliance and progress towards ending the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict and other grave viol…
I wish to start by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate on the mediation and settlement of disputes. It is an important follow-up to the high-level meeting on mediation and settlement of disputes in September last year (see S/PV.5979) during the presidency of Burkina Faso, wh…
I wish to start by thanking Mr. Hédi Annabi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), for his briefing.
Members may recall that the Security Council visited Haiti from 11 to 14 March, following the Secretary-General’s …
