Over the past month, Madam President, you have led us with wisdom, skill and determination. You have brought your prodigious qualities to your responsibilities, and they have also been reflected in your remarks today. You deserve high praise. We also pay tribute to Ambassador Ward and others in your…
Special thanks are owed to Mr. Hédi Annabi for updating us on the elections. We also appreciate his briefing us on the post-election scenario.
We are pleased that the long-awaited elections for forming a provisional self-government in Kosovo have taken place on schedule. We are also happy that this…
I also join other colleagues who have thanked Mr. Oshima for his briefing, and not just for his briefing, but also for the elaboration thereafter on the queries posed by the representatives of Norway, Singapore, Colombia, Ukraine and Ireland.
We are pleased with the way Mr. Oshima’s office has work…
We applaud the initiative in introducing the draft resolution on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. We accord it our fullest support. It is our view that reporting on the Summit annually and reviewing it
every five years will facilitate the achievement of our goals.
The advent …
As the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations draws to a close, there is need to take stock of where we stand and where we go from here in further promoting this concept and its practice. The Secretary-General’s report on the observance of the Year, contained in document A/56/523, is us…
We welcome very much the presence of the Secretary-General at this meeting, which records a significant success of the United Nations. We would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno for his useful briefing on
the various aspects of the election for the Constituent Assembly in East Timor.
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My delegation would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Guéhenno, for his useful briefing this morning. We particularly appreciated his in-depth analysis of the situation in Kosovo.
At the last Council meeting on this item, held on 26 July 2001, we reiterated …
We thank you, Mr. Foreign Minister, for your personal presence in the Security Council to preside over this meeting that is very relevant to the Council’s mandate. We thank you and the Colombian delegation, under the able guidance of Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, for taking the initiative to hold t…
Bangladesh thanks you, Mr. President, for holding this open debate on East Timor. This morning, we heard a very useful briefing by the Special Representative of Secretary- General, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello. His presentation was characteristically cogent and eloquent. We note the substantive progre…
First of all, Mr. President, let me thank you for organizing this open debate on Kosovo. We believe that the exchanges that have taken place so far have been very useful. Those exchanges were preceded by a very extensive and useful briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations,…
Bangladesh appreciates the presence, and the statement, of the Secretary-General at this important meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We believe that his contacts with the leaders of the region advance the cause of peace.
We also appreciate the briefing by Ambassador Kamel Morjane. Lo…
As a focus of its foreign policy and diplomatic efforts, Bangladesh has been stressing that conflict prevention is a political, humanitarian, economic and moral imperative. We therefore consider it a special occasion that the General Assembly of the United Nations, for the first time, is taking up p…
I have the pleasure of introducing the draft resolution on behalf of
the least developed countries, entitled “Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010”, the text of which is contained in document A/55/L.88.
This Programme of Action and the accompanying Declara…
On behalf of the Government of Bangladesh, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Member States of the United Nations for the condolences and sympathy they have extended at this special tribute of the General Assembly on the occasion of the sad demise of the honourable Speaker of the Bangl…
It is an honour and privilege for me, in my capacity as the President of the Security Council, to address the General Assembly in order to convey to it the recommendation of the Security Council for the appointment of the Secretary- General of the United Nations.
As the President indicated just now…
I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open meeting. We appreciate the presence earlier this morning of the Secretary-General and the statement that he made.
The Council mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo was very useful. It demonstrated the Council’s commitment …
First of all, I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting under this format, in which non-members of the Council can also participate and contribute their ideas to the Council’s consideration of this important issue.
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette for her ve…
We find Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno’s briefing very useful, as the President himself has mentioned, particularly in the context of his visit to the region. Following the practice that the President is trying to institute in these meetings, I will pick some of the points that Mr. Guéhenno has m…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting and for deciding to organize it in order to take action on the proposal submitted by the non-aligned caucus of the Security Council. It is my distinct honour to submit the draft resolution on this subject contained in document S/2001/270 on beha…
Bangladesh is highly appreciative of the role played by High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch in an exceedingly difficult and complex mission. We are grateful to him for his eighteenth report, sent to the Council in document S/2001/219. The report provides a detailed analysis and information on all…
