I would like first of all to thank the Secretary-General and his associates for their timely report on the work of the Organization. They have presented us with a document that vividly depicts the complex and difficult problems that confronted the Organization over the past 12 months.
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It is my pleasure and honour to introduce a draft resolution on the Agreement on Cooperation and Relationship between the United Nations and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the General Assembly today. Thirty-eight countries are listed as sponsors on the draft resolution. In addi…
My delegation welcomes the fact that the item on the reform of the Security Council is again on the General Assembly’s agenda, both earlier today in the meeting of the Working Group dealing with this matter and now in plenary. The item remains of the utmost importance to the Organization. It is, in …
As a member of the group of Friends of the Secretary-General on Georgia, Germany fully supports and welcomes the draft resolution before the Council today. This is particularly so because this draft resolution contains several important messages addressed directly to the parties, reflecting our grav…
Allow me first to congratulate you, Sir, on your reassumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I am sure that the work of the Council will greatly benefit from your experience.
Germany fully subscribes to the statement made by the Presidency of the European Union. My Government welcomes t…
The report of the Secretary- General on the work of the Organization stands out for many reasons: it is short and concise; it is comprehensive, analytical and thought-provoking. It should be presented to a wide readership. It lays out the threads which we, the Member States, must pick up in order to…
Allow me to convey through you, Sir, my deep appreciation of the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and of its presentation by the Tribunal’s President, Judge Antonio Cassese. I associate myself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Luxembour…
We welcomed the World Television Forum, which was attended, along with other people, by high-level representatives of German television. It was a useful event. However, we have problems with the draft resolution before us for three reasons.
First, there are already three United Nations days encompa…
Germany welcomes the recent progress made by the parties to the Angolan peace process in implementing the relevant provisions of the Lusaka Protocol. The international community has invested significant resources in the Angolan peace process during the last couple of years and has a strong vested in…
Allow me to convey through you, Mr. President, my deep appreciation of the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and its presentation by the Tribunal’s President.
Germany is highly conscious of the pivotal function of the Tribunal’s work. In our view, the successful work of the T…
Allow me to convey my deep appreciation of the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and its presentation by the Tribunal’s President. Given my Government’s deep respect for the independence of the International Criminal Tribunal, I shall of course refrain from comm…
The constantly deteriorating situation, the great human suffering and the fate of more than one million refugees in the Great Lakes region have for quite some time been a matter of deep concern to my Government.
My Government fully supports the decision the Security Council is about to take to auth…
Allow me first to join other delegations in expressing our condolences to the delegation of India on the loss of so many lives in the recent cyclone.
The German delegation of course fully associates itself with the statement of the Permanent Representative of Ireland on behalf of the European Union…
Since the Security Council met on 9 April this year to have a discussion on Afghanistan, the situation in this war-torn country has further deteriorated. Instead of committing themselves to all-inclusive political negotiations, the Afghan parties have continued to prefer war to peace, to the detrime…
Let me start by thanking the Secretary-General and his collaborators for the report on the work of the Organization. This is the fifth report of its kind. My delegation welcomes it. The thorough and detailed report gives a true picture of the difficult work done over the past year. It accurately ref…
Let me begin by saying that Germany fully supports the statement made by the representative of Ireland on behalf of the European Union.
It is evident that the contacts between the parties, assisted by the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy and by the Russian Federation as facilitator, have so far ha…
Allow me at the beginning of my statement to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to wish you every success in your work. Naturally, you can count on our close cooperation with you. It is in a feeble effort to express our feelings of great friendshi…
Let me begin my remarks by stating the obvious: we fully associate ourselves with the statement made by Italy on behalf of the European Union.
Since its first days, we have consistently supported the United Nations peace-keeping mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. We were and we a…
The present situation in Liberia is a matter of deep concern to all of us. We welcome this open debate, which gives members of the Council, as well as other Member States of the United Nations, an opportunity to express their views on a conflict which affects many countries. We wish to offer our vie…
Like other delegations, we would like to express our pleasure at seeing you in the chair of the President of the Security Council, Sir, the Council needs good Presidents, if it wants to do its work properly. You have already demonstrated that we are in good hands, and I pledge full cooperation.
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