We welcome The Honourable Justice Dennis Byron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and The Honourable Justice Patrick Robinson, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). We also welcome Mr. Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the ICTY, and …
I thank you, Madam Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, for organizing and presiding over this important debate on children and armed conflict. I also thank Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Deput…
I wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Darfur, for his briefing and for the Panel’s highly commendable work. I also thank Mr. Gambari, Joint Special Representative for Darfur and head of the African Union-United Nations Hyb…
Uganda voted in favour of resolution 1929 (2010) because we fully support the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The resolution has a mechanism for review, including the suspension and removal of the measures imposed, provided that Iran complies with its obligations and the NP…
I wish to welcome you, Your Excellency, Prime Minister Hariri, and to thank you for organizing and presiding over this important debate on intercultural dialogue for peace and security. We thank the Secretary-General for his statement. We also welcome the participation of The Honourable Alistair Bur…
We thank Mr. Inzko, High Representative and European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing. We welcome the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Mr. Silajdžić, and thank him for his statement.
We commend the Presidency of Bosnia and…
I welcome His Excellency President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti and thank him for his comprehensive and insightful statement on several issues pertaining to the Horn of Africa. His address has come at an opportune time, when the Council is seized with peace and security issues in the region, incl…
I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Lamberto Zannier, for his report. I welcome His Excellency Mr. Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, to this debate and …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ould Abdallah, for his briefing. I also welcome the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Somalia, Mr. Abdurahman Ibrahim, and thank him for updating the Council on the current developments in So…
We thank you, Madam President, for organizing this open debate, which gives an opportunity to States Members of the United Nations to participate in the deliberations on the work of the three counter-terrorism-related Committees.
I would like to thank the Chairman of the Committee established pursu…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Lebanon, for having assumed the presidency. We also commend Ambassador Takasu and the Japanese delegation for their excellent work last month.
I would also like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important briefi…
I would like to take this opportunity to explain Uganda’s vote before the voting on this important draft resolution on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) (S/2010/216).
Western Sahara has been a full-fledged member of the African Union since 1982. It is the onl…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for organizing this debate. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Mr. Edmond Mulet, for his elaborate briefing and outstanding leadership. I also thank Jean- Max Bellerive,…
I would like to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Wallström, to the Council and congratulate her on her appointment. My delegation would like to thank her for her briefing, and I wish to reiterate Uganda’s support for her mandate, as outl…
Uganda voted in favour of resolution 1918 (2010), on piracy in Somalia and welcomes its adoption by the Council. Piracy is an international problem that poses challenges to all countries. Therefore, combating piracy requires collective efforts and the contribution of all countries.
Uganda would lik…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate to assess the
implementation of the measures set out in the annex to the note by the President of the Security Council (S/2006/507) and recent Security Council practice.
At the outset, Uganda commends the Council’s Informal Working Group on Do…
Let me begin by thanking you, Foreign Minister Okada, and the delegation of Japan for organizing this high-level debate on the important issue of post-conflict peacebuilding. I also thank the Secretary-General, the honourable ministers of Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste and the Managing Di…
Uganda joins the other members of the Security Council in expressing condolences and sympathies to the Government and people of China following the deaths, injuries and destruction after the earthquake that occurred there today.
I thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary- General for Political Affair…
The peace process in the Middle East is at a delicate and critical juncture. There is an urgent need for practical steps to be taken on the ground towards the resumption of negotiations. Uganda voted in favour of resolution 64/254 because we are convinced that the international community should enco…
I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this important debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for his important statement and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, for his focused and helpful briefing.
The ho…
