Following the general debate of the last two weeks, today’s meeting, on the consideration of the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/59/1), provides a further opportunity to debate issues of great importance and concern to the international community, as well as an opp…
The draft resolution on the situation in northern Gaza, which got much more than the required majority, has been defeated by the veto. We regret that such a balanced and credible text, which merely called upon Israel to put an end to its military operation, which causes so many human losses and so m…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Working Group on Reform of the United Nations and Revitalization of the General Assembly. I shall limit my intervention to the question of the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
NAM would like to express once ag…
At a time when the General Assembly has barely concluded its general debate — during which a wide consensus was generated around the need for action in the Middle East before the region finally plunges into violence, and on the margins of which the Quartet attempted to breathe life into a peace proc…
Permit me at the outset to bid a warm welcome to President Obasanjo and to thank him very much for having kindly shared with us his vision and his message of hope concerning developments on the African continent and for having given us the opportunity to
listen to his valuable briefing on the negot…
Algeria has been following attentively, and with profound concern, developments in the situation in Darfur and in its impact on the civilian population, which faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. We have followed those developments all the more attentively and with all the more concern becaus…
I would like to thank Ambassador Muñoz for his excellent presentation of the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999), and of the Monitoring Team established pursuant to resolution 1526 (2004).
My delegation attaches particular attention to the work of t…
Algeria which is resolutely committed to strict respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity and independence of Lebanon, as well as for the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of Lebanon and in its political and economic choices, decided to abstain on the draft resolu…
Like my colleagues, I wish to convey to you, Sir, our sincere condolences and profound sympathy in connection with the two aviation catastrophes that have left behind so many bereaved families in Russia.
I welcome Mr. Jean Arnault and thank him for his excellent presentation of the report of the Se…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the three countries representing Africa on the Council — Angola, Benin and my own country, Algeria. I would like, at the outset, to express our satisfaction at the adoption of the resolution on the situation in Darfur — a very important and sensitive issue tha…
Allow me to express our pleasure at seeing you, Sir, preside over this most important meeting of the Council. The debate you have organized gives us an opportunity to explore together the vast resources of Chapter VIII of the Charter and I hope to exploit it for the greater good of cooperation betwe…
I thank Ambassador Alexander Konuzin for his excellent presentation of the 90-day work programme of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and for his efforts to enable the Committee to fulfil its mandate at a time of transition, when the Executive Directorate is being put into place. I take this opp…
I shall try to be as brief as my colleague from Benin. First of all, I should like to congratulate the mission’s members and, at their head, Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry on the quality of the work accomplished in a relatively short period of time.
As a result of their visit to the West African subre…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement Working Group on United Nations Reform and Revitalization of the General Assembly.
The Movement welcomes the adoption by consensus of the resolution on further measures for the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, conta…
I should like to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for their excellent briefings and for the highly commendable service they render daily to international justice and to our common cause of combating impunity.
Alger…
I should like at the outset to say to you, Madam Minister, how pleased I am to see you presiding over the work of our Council. I should like to thank you for having chosen this subject, which is very topical and relevant, as its consideration coincides with yesterday’s publication of the long-awaite…
My delegation welcomes the recent conclusion in Naivasha, Kenya, of the three protocols to agreements that, along with those reached over the past two years, now pave the way to a peaceful settlement of the conflict that has gone on too long in the southern Sudan.
While we welcome the efforts under…
My delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution on the question of Cyprus because it is a response to the request made by the Government of Cyprus that the United Nations Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) be maintained on the island beyond 15 June 2004.
My delegation would have preferred that, as was…
I will start my statement by paying a special and well-deserved tribute to my countryman Lakhdar Brahimi, without whom no resolution on Iraq would have been contemplated, let alone adopted.
The adoption of the resolution on Iraq constitutes an historic moment for the proud Iraqi people, who after t…
I would like first of all to associate myself with those who have expressed their appreciation and admiration to Ambassador Munir Akram and his able team for the remarkable manner in which Pakistan conducted our work last month. I would like also to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the p…
