Mr. President, allow me at the outset to thank you for having convened this meeting. I wish also to thank Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland for his comprehensive briefing today, which is indeed the third one this year on the humanitarian situation in Africa.
As observed during earlier meetings, m…
I would like to congratulate Judge Fausto Pocar on his election to the presidency of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) last November. I thank Judge Pocar and Judge Erik Møse, as well as Prosecutors Carla Del Ponte and Hassan Bubacar
Jallow, for their thorough repo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for promoting this open and timely debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, which is one of the most challenging issues the international community confronts. I would like to express my delegation’s appreciation to Under- Secretary-General Jan Egeland for …
I would like to extend to you, Sir, and the delegation of the United Kingdom our congratulations and best wishes for success during your presidency of the Security Council. We also wish to thank Ambassador Andrey Denisov and the delegation of the Russian Federation for their excellent work in the pr…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the delegations of Argentina and Brazil on agenda item 14, “The situation in the Middle East”.
In the year that has elapsed since the last debate of the General Assembly on that issue, several positive developments have taken place in the Middle East. Notewor…
Once again this year, under sub-item (a) of agenda item 75, Brazil has had the honour to coordinate informal consultations on oceans and the law of the sea. On behalf of its sponsors, I have the pleasure today to introduce draft resolution A/60/L.22, entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”.
I wish…
At the outset, on behalf of Brazil, I wish to express our heartfelt condolences to the people and to the Government of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, who were victimized by the recent dastardly and abhorrent act of terrorism. We must continue to combat that scourge through all means.
I would like to …
The Jewish Holocaust is the paradigmatic case of genocide, a crime that until that time lacked a definition and did not allow for legal recourse. None of the Hague Conventions mentioned genocide, nor could the massacres that had taken place be properly judged or their perpetrators punished owing to …
The delegation of Brazil is grateful to Ambassador César Mayoral, Ellen Løj and Mihnea Motoc for their valuable briefings on the activities of the Committees they chair.
Concerning the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and …
I would like to express our appreciation to His Excellency Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, and to the delegation of Romania under his able leadership, for convening this meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, which affords the Security Council the opportunity …
The discussion of the Secretary-General’s report on the work of the Organization (A/60/1) provides us, on a yearly basis, with a highly valuable opportunity to take stock of developments affecting the international situation and of United Nations actions to deal with them. The Secretary-General’s re…
I wish to thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his statement this morning. My delegation also wishes to thank Mr. Paul Volcker for the report and for his briefing on the main findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee on the oil-for-food programme. In view of the comprehensive nature of the doc…
I wish to thank Special Representative Jean Arnault for his invaluable briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and on the preparations for the upcoming elections.
In January 2004, when Brazil was starting its present term in the Security Council, Afghanistan was completing an important initial ste…
At the outset, I wish to join other delegations in extending our welcome to Ambassador John Bolton.
The Brazilian delegation condemns, in the strongest terms, the terrorist acts taking place throughout Iraq. No motivation can justify the deadly toll of civilians on a daily basis. We express our dee…
I wish to thank Alvaro de Soto for his comprehensive briefing and insightful comments. My delegation — myself in particular, because of my longstanding friendship with Mr. De Soto — was very pleased at his appointment as Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, which was a clear recogn…
This is our first public meeting on terrorism after the tragic events in London reminded us once again of that scourge, as well as of the urgency and necessity of redoubling efforts to combat it.
Within the framework of the reform of the United Nations, we now have the opportunity to reach an agree…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on the very important issue of HIV/AIDS in the context of
peacekeeping. I wish also to thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Marie Guéhenno and the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Peter…
I would like to express the special satisfaction of the delegation of Brazil at seeing you, Mr. Minister, presiding over the work of the Security Council on this timely and important item. I am also grateful to the delegation of Greece for the very useful background paper that it has provided as a b…
I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/59/L.64 on behalf of the following sponsors: Afghanistan, Belgium, Bhutan, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Japan, Kiribati, Latvia, the Maldives, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Poland, Po…
Three years after our heads of State or Government adopted the Monterrey Consensus, we are gathering again to examine how far we have come in the process of accomplishing our commitments. The new sense of partnership created in Monterrey involves the international community as a whole in the search …
