Since 1993 we have been following with real hope the great progress in the Middle East peace process. For example, a few months ago the elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip seemed to be a good omen for peace in the region. This progress raised the hopes of the international community that there…
Mr. President, allow me first of all to express my delegation’s satisfaction at seeing you preside this afternoon over the Council’s deliberations; I should also like to thank the delegation and the Permanent Representative of Botswana for the work they carried out during the month of March and for …
The delegation of Argentina was a sponsor — and a deeply committed one, to be sure — of the important resolution we have just adopted. God willing, it represents the last chapter of the tragedy that until recently engulfed the Balkans.
This chapter is doubtless one of reconciliation, but it is also…
Just very briefly, as we close this debate, I would like to offer a few thoughts prompted by the statements to which we have been listening.
Subsidiary organs are an option which is explicitly provided for in the Charter. It could thus hardly be suggested that the proposal to set up a subsidiary or…
More than a year ago, New Zealand and Argentina sent a letter to the President of the Security Council, supported by a considerable number of Member States that shared our ideas related to the issue of consultations between members of the Security Council and troop-contributing countries.
As a resu…
I once again have the honour of introducing to the General Assembly a draft resolution — draft resolution A/50/L.23, co-sponsored by 64 countries — Finland, India and Suriname having added their names to the list of co- sponsors. The draft resolution is designed to promote the participation of “Whit…
My delegation is particularly pleased to speak on this agenda item, concerning the support by the United Nations system for the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies.
As the Heads of State or Government declared at the latest Ibero-American Summit held in my …
Almost two years have gone by since resolution 48/26 established the Open-ended Working Group to consider all aspects of the functioning of the Security Council. That Group, presided over by the President of the General Assembly and wisely guided by Ambassadors Wilhelm Breitenstein of Finland and Ni…
The Argentine Republic will vote in favour of the draft resolution now before the Council, since we believe that the international community must actively support the opportunities for peace now emerging in Liberia and redouble its efforts to contribute to the consolidation of the peace agreements r…
At the outset, as is customary, I should like to welcome you, Sir, to the presidency of the Council. I wish also to thank the Mission of Nigeria, led by Ambassador Gambari, for the outstanding work it did last month.
This is obviously not the first time that the Security Council is meeting to addre…
In previous years, the delegation of Argentina abstained in votes on draft resolutions similar to that just adopted by the Assembly because it understood that the content created problems of a bilateral nature, between two Member States with which we have deep relations of friendship.
We would like…
The actions of the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs against, in general, the safe areas established by this Council and, in particular, against the civilian population of Sarajevo, had exceeded all the limits of humanitarian law and taken the unacceptable road of uncommon cruelty. My delegation therefor…
I should like, first of all, to welcome you, Sir, and to say how pleased our delegation is to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council for the month of September, and to express our esteem for you. At the same time, I should like to express my thanks to the delegation of Indonesia for…
The resolution the Security Council has just adopted includes a necessary and justified measure: the lifting of the embargo on arms and related matériel that had been imposed on the Government of Rwanda. Members will recall that by its resolution 918 (1994) the Council imposed the embargo on the for…
Once again we find ourselves, in the crisis affecting the Balkans, demanding the immediate halting of armed action on the part of a State — action which is clearly a violation of resolutions adopted by this Council. We are doing so — as so often in such instances — for, among other reasons, the purp…
The conflict in the Balkans has continued to grow qualitatively worse in a whirlwind that has swept away the resolutions of this Council and breached all the limits established by civilization. Meanwhile, as on other occasions, we in the Security Council are striving, given the circumstances, to pre…
We have just renewed the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) for a further period of seven months, which we hope will be the last period. This is legitimate grounds for satisfaction because of the sense of confidence we feel when taking a decision on a process which seems to be su…
On behalf of the group of countries Friends of the Secretary-General for Haiti, of Haiti itself and of Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Italy, Irelan…
I should like first to convey to you, Sir, our great thanks for your excellent work as President of the Security Council and as Germany’s representative to the Council.
As a result of the current state of affairs the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, and violations of human rights pe…
The Security Council is once again considering the situation in the occupied Arab territories at the request of the League of Arab States and more particularly of Palestine, this time as the result of a decision taken by the Israeli authorities to confiscate or expropriate lands in East Jerusalem.
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