Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would like to express our thanks and appreciation to His Excellency Lord Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to Mr. Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nat…
Enhancing international cooperation to resolve problems of an economic and social nature constitutes one of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations. For that reason, the international community must fully assume its responsibilities in dealing with unilateral extraterritorial…
It seems that I am not lucky. As the first speaker on the list this morning, I will be talking to myself and to the handful of colleagues in the General Assembly Hall.
My delegation would like to extend its thanks to Ambassador Martin Belinga-Eboutou, President of the Security Council for this mont…
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to thank you for convening this meeting of the Security Council, although it was somewhat delayed, since we had requested it on Friday. We do not understand the delay, in view of the fact that the situation in the region is boiling.
All of us have stated our v…
Let me begin, Sir, by congratulating you warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September. We are pleased to see you, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, presiding over this important meeting. At the same time our thanks go to Ambassador Tafrov…
My delegation wishes to welcome Mr. Nebojsa Čović, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Head of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Serbia Coordinating Centre for Kosovo and Metohija. We thank him for the detailed information he has provided on the situation in Kosovo and the state of cooperation with…
Never before has a serious development in the Palestinian situation demanded such international concern and such a response as the premeditated and meticulously planned Israeli act of aggression on a residential building in the crowded Al-Daraj quarter, in northern Gaza City, carried out at midnight…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on Afghanistan. I should also like to thank the Secretary- General for his report on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security. It is both comprehensive and detailed…
We welcome your presence in the Chair, Madam President, and we thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for convening this important meeting. Allow me also to welcome Mr. Momodu Koroma, Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, and my friend and colleague François Fall, Foreign Minister of Guinea. The For…
At the outset, I should like to thank Sir Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his useful and comprehensive briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and the developments taking place there. Those developments coincide with the approaching end of the term of the Afgh…
The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic, keen on improving the draft resolution contained in document S/2002/532 and dated 13 May 2002, had earlier submitted the following constructive proposals.
First, the objective of the proposals was to avoid the shortcomings in the performance of the Commit…
We would like to associate ourselves with the previous speakers in warmly congratulating the President-elect of East Timor, Mr. Xanana Gusmão, and Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri. We would also like to
thank the Secretary-General for his statement and the comprehensive and detailed report he has prese…
I should like to express my delegation’s support for the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and for the efforts made by Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock, Chairman of the Committee, his Vice-Chairmen and the members of the subcommittees and the experts to implement Security Council resolution …
Mr. President, I would like to start by thanking you for convening this urgent meeting of the Security Council at the request of the Arab Group.
For the third time in just a few days, we meet to try to confront the attempts by Israel to erode the authority and credibility of this Council.
Members …
It is indeed a pleasure for me to express our sincere thanks to Ms. Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), for her rich and valuable briefing, especially as it crowns her great achievements at the helm of that agency. At the same time, it is my pleasure to wish her a happy an…
We affirmed in our statement this afternoon that there was an Arab Summit that adopted a peace initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in accordance with the resolutions of international legality. We had great hope that the Council would start its re…
I regret the fact that I must take the floor today, on Good Friday. In Arabic, Good Friday is called “Sad Friday”, and it is a sad day for more than one reason: many Palestinians have been killed. The President of the Palestinian Authority has been attacked in his very headquarters; the compound has…
Your presidency this month, sir, has been characterized by open debates on very important issues. I should like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his very valuable statement on developments since 25 February. I would also like very warmly to welcome Mr. Nebojša Čović, Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal…
We are honoured and pleased to see you, Sir, presiding over this meeting to discuss issues relating to a great people and its country. This demonstrates your interest in and concern for Afghanistan, just as you have shown your interest in and concern for African affairs.
Allow me to express our tha…
It is a pleasure to congratulate you, Sir, on your initiative of resuming the Council’s discussion of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. This is undoubtedly one of the most important issues before us, as Ambassador Levitte said in his statement and as we see from the statistics he provid…
