I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this very important meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We
are grateful to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his briefing. Like others, I wish to thank Mr. Ngongi for his presence here and for his briefing. I take this opportunity to e…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Russian presidency for holding this timely and very opportune public meeting on the eve of the Security Council mission to the West African subregion, which will have Guinea-Bissau as its destination. I would like to thank Ambassador Aguilar Zinser for agreei…
I would like to express my delegation’s gratitude to you, Sir, for having organized this consideration of the draft resolution contained in document S/2003/630 at this public meeting.
I would also like to welcome the statement which was made this morning to the Council by the Secretary-
General. W…
I should like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for his briefing and his timely reminder that today is the fourth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1244 (1999). However, the situation inside Kosovo today still gives us cause for concern.
As others have done, I should like to …
I should like to express our gratitude to Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for introducing the Secretary-General’s report (S/2003/421) and for his comprehensive briefing on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Pakistan attaches great importance to the work of t…
I would like to add Pakistan’s voice to those of the Ambassador of Morocco, as the Chairman of the Group of 77, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, as the Chairman of the Asian Group.
I would like to welcome the reappointment of Mark Malloch Brown as Administrator of the United Nations Dev…
Let me at the outset, Sir, perform the pleasant duty of welcoming you back to New York and to the Security Council. We are honoured to participate in this meeting under your presidency.
This is an important meeting on an important topic which your country has chosen for our discussion. I welcome th…
My delegation would like to join others in expressing our appreciation to Mr. James Morris for his excellent and comprehensive briefing. We are aware of the outstanding work that the World Food Programme has performed in so many crises — including in a neighbouring country, Afghanistan — and we have…
May I take this opportunity to extend Pakistan’s felicitations to Mexico and to you, Sir, and your delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Council at this crucial moment in global affairs. Your task will be challenging, but we have no doubt that you will live up to the high expectatio…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Danilo Türk for introducing the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB). We would like to put on record our appreciation for the work of the United Nations, UNPOB and all the parties who have worked t…
At the outset, I should like to express the appreciation of the delegation of Pakistan to Ambassador Gunter Pleuger and to the German delegation for the heroic efforts that they have made in the past several days to evolve this unanimous adoption of a resolution to provide humanitarian relief to the…
We are meeting today at a momentous and perhaps tragic point in world history. We are meeting as hopes for a peaceful solution of the Iraqi issue are about to end. There is no doubt that this is a sad moment for the Security Council and for the United Nations, whose primary vocation is peace.
War, …
This is the first time that my delegation is speaking in the Council on the subject of Timor-Leste since the independence of that country last May. At that time, the Secretary-General summed up the sentiments of the entire United Nations membership when he said to the people of Timor- Leste:
“You s…
It is a pleasure to see the distinguished Foreign Minister of fraternal Guinea presiding over the deliberations of this historic and perhaps faithful meeting of the Security Council on Iraq. I would also wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Germany, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and my f…
At the outset, I should like to express the condolences of the Pakistan delegation to the Permanent Representative of China and his delegation with regard to the tragic loss of lives
and property as a result of the recent earthquake that afflicted the Chinese people.
I should also like to thank th…
Everyone acknowledges that this is a decisive moment for the Security Council and for international peace and security. The importance of this meeting is evident, Sir, from your presence here to preside over the proceedings of the Security Council and from the participation of nine other Foreign Min…
Allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Michael Steiner, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Kosovo, for his briefing.
Pakistan attaches great importance to the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We support UNMIK’s five pillars, as well as the eigh…
Let me, in this open meeting, formally congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this inaugural month of 2003. I wish also to express our admiration for Ambassador Valdivieso’s skilful leadership of the Council last month.
The Council’s consideration of thematic issues ha…
Today we are not only considering the latest report of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan but also commemorating the first anniversary of the Bonn Agreement. Pakistan attaches special importance to this historic Agreement, which set in motion a process for the rebuilding of political institutions …
We thank the Secretary- General and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for their reports on the situation in the Middle East and on the question of Palestine.
For two years now, the Middle East has been in the grip of escalating and often brutal violen…
