I would like to thank Ambassador César Mayoral, Ambassador Ellen Løj and Ambassador Mihnea Motoc for their excellent briefings, and to commend them for their efforts as Chairs of their respective Committees. And I would say that my delegation fully subscribes to the objectives of the three Committee…
At the outset, I should like to express our deep condolences to the Observer of the Holy See on the passing of His Holiness the Pope John Paul II, a lifelong man of peace and proponent of dialogue. I should like also to express to the Permanent Representative of Monaco our most sincere condolences o…
Algeria reaffirms its firm condemnation of the grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed in Darfur. It also expresses its sympathy for and solidarity with the victims of that tragedy. From the outbreak of the crisis, Algeria has been involved in the international …
At the outset I would like to commend you, Mr. President, on your initiative in devoting this wrap-up meeting of the Security Council’s work for March 2005 to African issues.
It is an established fact that for several years African issues have occupied the lion’s share of the Council’s monthly deli…
Algeria fully shares the legitimate concern of the international community in the face of the tragedy in Darfur. We are profoundly outraged and upset by the heavy price that the civilian population has paid, and continues to pay, as a result of that fratricidal conflict. It is therefore quite normal…
I should like first of all to welcome the presence among us of the Secretary-General. I wish also to welcome Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa, and to thank him very warmly for his outstanding presentation on the results of President Mbeki’s mediation, on behalf of …
I, too, should like to thank Mr. Colak, Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his statement. I should also like to thank the High Representative, Lord Paddy Ashdown, for his report and for his efforts to follow up the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It…
Allow me first to thank you, Mr. Minister, for having organized this very important public debate on the progress report of the Secretary-General on ways to combat subregional and cross-border problems in West Africa (S/2005/86).
It hardly needs to be said that those problems exacerbate the region’…
I should like to thank Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen for the excellent introduction he gave us to the report of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and to pay tribute through him to members of the United Nations mission for the outstanding job they have accomplished in th…
Algeria joined other members of the Security Council in voting in favour of the draft resolution on renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). It did so once the concerns it had expressed had largely been taken into account by the country that prepared the original…
Allow me, Mr. Minister, to welcome you to the Security Council, and I warmly congratulate you on Argentina’s assumption of the presidency of the Council. Finally, I thank you for convening this important debate on the situation in Haiti. I would also like to welcome the presence at this important de…
The report before the General Assembly today very clearly recounts the tragic situation in which the Palestinian people find themselves as a result of the actions of Israel, the occupying Power, and places the question of Palestine in a particularly distressing context.
It is clear from the report …
At the outset, I thank Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen for his excellent presentation to the Security Council and commend him for the work he has accomplished on the ground since his appointment to head the United
Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. I would also like to thank Mr. Nebojsa Co…
The Algerian delegation would like, first of all, to associate
itself with the statement made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Today’s debate on follow-up to the Millennium Declaration and the implementation and integrated and coordinated follow-up of the outc…
I would like first of all to thank the ministers of Djibouti and Kenya, the facilitator from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the representative of the current Chair of the African Union for the statements they have made this afternoon. However, I would also like to express …
My delegation is particularly pleased that the Security Council has decided to return to Africa after so many years and that it decided to meet in this hospitable city of Nairobi, thereby showing the great importance it attaches to our continent and the respect and esteem it has for Kenya, which pla…
At the outset, I welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, and thank him and his team for the remarkable work they have accomplished at the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET). As well, I thank Mr. Hasegawa for his presentation of the p…
Mr. President, I would like to thank you for taking the initiative of organizing this discussion on women and peace and security shortly before the fourth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000).
The adoption of that resolution was a particularly welcome recognition of the special sit…
I would like very sincerely to thank Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry for his excellent presentation of the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly (A/59/2). We have always believed that the Assembly’s consideration of the Security Council’s report should not be a mere formality and th…
Algeria welcomes the Security Council’s unanimous adoption of a resolution vigorously condemning all acts of terrorism in all their forms, thus significantly enhancing our campaign against a phenomenon that constitutes one of the greatest threats to international peace and security today.
We welcom…
