First of all, Mr. President, we wish to express appreciation for your initiative to hold a debate on the protection of civilians in situations of conflict. This topic undoubtedly represents the fundamental challenge facing the international community and in particular the Security Council.
May I al…
Allow me to congratulate you wholeheartedly, Sir, on the very professional and effective manner in which you are presiding over the work of the Security Council in this extremely busy month of January. I should also like to extend these sentiments to Ambassador Jassim Buallay of Bahrain on his brill…
Unlike one year ago, today we can say that there has been a change of expectations with respect to the peace process in the Middle East, and there is now reason to be moderately optimistic.
The parties seem to have come together again and — not without effort and certainly thanks to the required re…
I would first like to refer to the error contained in the corrigendum to operative paragraph 10 of draft resolution A/53/L.41. The corrigendum should have corrected the last line of operative paragraph 10 to read: “continued progress being made in the observance of human rights in the country”. The …
I apologize to delegations for perhaps having read out the proposed revision too quickly.
Paragraph 17 should read:
“Calls upon the member States to continue their efforts towards the achievement of appropriate regulation of maritime transport of radioactive and toxic wastes, taking into account t…
Before the vote, I would like to refer briefly to a minor technical correction to draft resolution A/53/L.41, which we have before us. The technical correction has to do with operative paragraph 17. If you would allow me, Sir, I will read this in Spanish at dictation speed.
Paragraph 17 should read…
Permit me first to convey to you, Mr. President, my respectful greetings and the most sincere congratulations of my delegation on the manner in which you are conducting the work of the Security Council during November.
Once again the situation in Haiti requires us to extend the mandate of the Unite…
My delegation is extremely pleased to introduce, on behalf of the members of the zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic, the draft resolution contained in document A/53/L.41 and Corr.1.
Since its creation in 1985, the zone, which is composed of three Latin America countries and 21 Afri…
The debate that we have every year in this Hall is, in our opinion, of great importance in promoting adherence to the Convention on the Law of the Sea and other, related treaties, and in encouraging the effective work of ocean institutes and cooperation among States.
My delegation wishes to express…
May I begin by expressing my delegation’s appreciation for the efforts and activities of the former Chairman of the Working Group, Mr. Udovenko of Ukraine, and by the Vice-Chairmen, Ambassadors Breitenstein of Finland and Jayanama of Thailand. All of us who have participated in the discussion of thi…
The delegation of Argentina wishes to express its concern over the persistent economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, which affects the legitimate interests of persons and entities and undermines freedom and the flows of trade and investments.
Lifting the embargo is the best instr…
It is an honour for Argentina and for me personally to speak so early in this important debate, and while you, Sir, the representative of an African country, are in the Chair.
I wish to thank the Secretary-General for his pragmatic and objective report on the causes of conflict in Africa. With its …
I wish to thank the Secretary-General for the thoughts set out in his report on the work of the Organization during the period of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly. We share his vision of the role of the United Nations for the twenty-first century. Ours will be a globalized and interd…
I should like first of all to congratulate the delegation of Slovenia on its dedicated and outstanding work while presiding over the Security Council during the month of August.
I should next like to thank you, Sir, for the initiative, taken under your presidency, to take up again the question of p…
Allow me to thank you, Sir, for the efforts you have made to ensure that today’s item be taken up during your term of office and for your manifest commitment to participation and transparency in the work of this Council.
I should also like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for having …
Allow me to convey to you, Sir, the Republic of Argentina’s pleasure at seeing you preside over this meeting. In addition, I wish to express my country’s gratitude at the exemplary and dedicated manner in which your predecessor, Ambassador Mahugu of Kenya, conducted the work of the Council during th…
May I congratulate the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Gambia for serving as President of the Council in this month of March. We would like also to extend our warmest thanks to Ambassador Dangue Réwaka of Gabon for having contributed, during his term in the month of February, to creating an atmosphe…
I have the honour to speak on the item “Assistance in mine clearance” just a few days after Argentina, along with many other countries, signed in Ottawa the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.
We also wish …
With respect to the item entitled “The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti”, I am pleased to inform the Assembly that the following countries should be added to the list of sponsors of draft resolution A/52/L.65: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic,…
On behalf of the group of Friends of the Secretary-General for Haiti, consisting of Canada, Chile, France, the United States of America, Venezuela and Argentina, I have the honour to introduce the draft resolution contained in document A/52/L.65, on the situation of democracy and human rights in Hai…
