Allow me at the outset to welcome Minister Zebari to this important meeting of the Security Council. I thank him for responding to the Council’s invitation to engage in a dialogue with us today and to share his views and vision regarding the future of Iraq and what, on the eve of the restoration of …
As the Council holds its final public meeting of the month, I wish, Mr. President, to extend to you and to the other members of your delegation the appreciation of my delegation for the manner in which you have guided our work, which has been praiseworthy in every respect. I wish also to thank you f…
I thank Ambassador Muñoz for his informative briefing on the work of the 1267 Committee and the Monitoring Team and on his visit to several countries from 1 to 8 May. At the outset, we should note that the adoption of resolution 1526 (2004) was a further milestone in the conceptual framework of the …
My delegation welcomes the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution on the situation in the Palestinian territory, a resolution that unambiguously condemns the killing that openly occurred in Rafah, where dozens of unarmed civilians, including many children, have
fallen victim to the bullets and…
I would like to thank Mr. Holkeri for his excellent introduction of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2004/348) and for his briefing on the situation in Kosovo. I also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro and thank him for addressing the Council.
The clashes and ac…
I should like at the outset to express my sincere condolences and sympathy to the Russian delegation following the horrible terrorist attack that claimed the lives of the President of the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation, Mr. Akhmad Kadyrov, and others.
Next, I would like to thank Ambassa…
My delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution just adopted unanimously because it considers that, in the absence of binding international rules preventing the acquisition and use by non-State actors of weapons of mass destruction, it is the responsibility of the Security Council to act, on a…
I would like to thank the States who have called for a public debate on an issue that clearly concerns all Member States of the Organization, since it has to do with addressing the threat of the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by non-State players. It is, therefore, essential to fac…
My delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution, but we deeply regret that the Security Council was unable to preserve the unity that it has always shown on the question of Cyprus. This lack of unanimity is particularly regrettable because it is being demonstrated at such a crucial moment for …
Three weeks ago, when the Security Council failed to adopt a resolution that would have condemned the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and all terrorist acts against civilians, and would have called for the cessation of all acts of violence, including acts of terrorism, I warned the Council tha…
I should like to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his excellent briefing on the situation in Kosovo.
The briefing he just delivered described the grave inter-ethnic confrontation and violence that shook Kosovo in March and from which United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) …
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to tell you how pleased I am to see you presiding over the Security Council and to express our gratitude to Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sablière and his team, whose work deserves recognition by the Council. Let me also thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his clear
and comp…
I am pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over the Council today. I am also pleased at the presence and the very valuable contributions of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at this meeting.
My deleg…
Four days after the horrendous assassination of Sheikh Yassin and six other Palestinians, blown up by an Israeli missile as they were leaving a mosque, the Security Council has been unable to produce either a presidential statement or a resolution condemning that extrajudicial killing and calling fo…
Israel has committed a very grave crime. It has killed an elderly sheikh — a quadriplegic who was leaving a mosque in his wheelchair — and six other Palestinians. That crime, which cannot be justified and which was perpetrated in cold blood, in the middle of the day, was the result of a decision tak…
Mr. President, I would like to thank you for having organized this emergency meeting, following the serious deterioration of the security situation in Kosovo. I would also like to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro and to thank him for having come to New York to give u…
I would like to thank Ambassador Arias for his excellent briefing and for his efforts to enable the Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC) to fully carry out its mission. I would also like to thank him, as well as the other members of the CTC, for the reports of 14 November 2003 and 19 February 2004 (S/…
I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council and to convey our gratitude to Ambassador Wang and his delegation for their effective and competent guidance of our work last month.
I wish also to thank High Representative Lord Paddy Ashdown for his comprehensive…
Let me begin by thanking the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Jamaica and of the Bahamas for their statements. They shed sobering light on the tragic situation in Haiti, which is growing in scope and gravity with every passing hour. Indeed, in recent days the situation in Haiti has sharply worsened,…
My delegation listened very attentively and with a great deal of interest to the report on the situation in Iraq submitted under Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) by the Ambassadors of the United States and the United Kingdom, who represent the Coalition Provisional Authority. Their briefings,…
