I would not have wanted to intervene at this point in the meeting, but since this will be the last Council meeting I shall attend, I would like, Sir, at this very first meeting of your presidency to begin by congratulating you. I am confident that you will lead the Council’s deliberations this month…
We are delighted to see you, Madam, presiding over this meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Iraq. I should like to thank the delegation of Spain for its efforts to facilitate the convening of this important meeting. We are also pleased to welcome the Secretary-General, as well as his…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, for holding this open meeting on Guinea-Bissau. It is a contribution to strengthening the efforts of that country and its Government for reform, reconstruction and rehabilitation and for building peace and stability in Guinea-Bissau.
We also wish to thank Mr. Da…
At the outset, permit me to thank Mr. Jean- Marie Guéhenno and Mr. Antonio Costa for their very detailed introductory briefings. I would like to say how pleased I am to see them here with us today.
There is no doubt that the subject of this meeting is an extremely important and complex component of…
My delegation abstained in the vote on the draft resolution for the following reasons.
The Syrian Arab Republic does not see any necessary justification for renewing resolution 1422 (2002) this year. Last year we voted for the resolution, and the Council adopted it unanimously. Our vote this year i…
We should like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this very important meeting. My delegation also thanks Mr. Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his comprehensive briefing on the most recent developments in the situation in Kosovo.
My delegation strongl…
My delegation would like at the outset to express its satisfaction at seeing you, Sir, presiding over this meeting of the Council. We welcome you once again to New York. We extend our thanks to your friendly country, Pakistan, and to your delegation for having included this important item on the age…
It is an honour for me to welcome His Excellency Mr. José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain, to the Security Council. I would like to assure him that his presence represents the bright side of Spain’s commitment to the centrality of the role of the Security Council in combating the threats to pea…
At the outset, I am pleased to welcome your decision, Sir, to convene this wrap-up meeting on a matter of primary importance, following a long interruption of such meetings. Indeed, we believe that this meeting offers a great opportunity to assess the work of the Security Council for this month.
I …
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his frank and comprehensive briefing to the Council this morning on the latest developments in Kosovo. We also welcome the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2003/421).
My delegation…
We wish to welcome you personally among us once again in the Council, Mr. President, and to thank you and your Mission for holding this very important meeting. It is being held within the framework of the importance that your friendly country, Mexico, has given it. It has an historical importance, f…
In accordance with the position of the Syrian Arab Republic — which is committed to the resolutions of international legitimacy — and with the role of the United Nations and the need to revitalize that role in response to the humanitarian needs of the brotherly Iraqi people by restarting the oil for…
I should like at the outset to welcome His Excellency Mr. Hans Dahlgren, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Sweden. We are familiar with his great contributions to the work of this Organization. I would also like to thank him for presenting the final report on the Stockholm Process on the Implem…
Allow me at the outset to extend our sincere condolences to the Government and the people of the United States of America following the tragic disaster that befell the space shuttle Columbia.
It is my privilege to read out the text of a statement by Mr. Farouk Al-Shara’, Deputy Prime Minister and M…
I wish to convey to you, Sir, to the Ministers,
to the Secretary-General and to the representatives of member States the best wishes of Mr. Farouk Al-Shara, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic. As he could not be present today, he has asked me to deliv…
The Syrian Arab Republic delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 1454 (2002), just adopted by the Council. Here, we would like to make a number of points. First, when voting in favour of resolution 1447 (2002) calling for the extension of the oil-for-food programme, Syria took into account …
When the Syrian Arab Republic introduced, on behalf of the Group of Arab States, the draft resolution now contained in document S/2002/1385, we understood that it dealt with issues that enjoyed unanimous support — issues of concern to the international community and the various bodies of the United …
The Syrian Arab Republic will vote against the draft resolution before us because the sponsor of the draft resolution insists on using language that deviates from the main purpose of the draft resolution, which is to condemn the act of international terrorism carried out in Kikambala, Kenya, which l…
This year, the General Assembly is debating the two items on the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine amid very telling and critical regional and international reports that the region is enduring a horrific escalation of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the…
I should like at the outset to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President, for having convened this open debate of the Security Council to deliberate on the issue of women and peace and security — an issue that occupies an important place on the international agenda.
I should like to welcome the…
