May I first thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his briefing and his analysis. We thank the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) and Mr. Sharma for the excellent work accomplished. I also want to welcome the presence of Mr. Ramos-Horta, Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is one of t…
I thank Mr. Kalomoh for his excellent introduction of the progress report of the Secretary-General on Central Africa (S/2004/52). When we considered the report of the Secretary-General on West Africa (see S/PV.4899), I could not help drawing a parallel with Central Africa and noting the striking sim…
I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to express our gratitude to
Ambassador Muñoz and his delegation for conducting our work efficiently last month. I would also like to express my deepest condolences to the Russian delegation after…
Allow me at the outset to thank the delegation of Chile for taking the initiative of organizing this debate on a question
which is clearly central to the mission of our Organization. I also thank Ambassador Muñoz for enabling our discussion of this question with the non- governmental organizations …
I should like first of all, Mr. President, to thank you for having convened this open debate on the follow-up to the report of the Security Council mission to West Africa.
I should like also to convey to the Secretary- General our deepest appreciation for his report on the implementation of the obs…
Allow me first of all, Madam, very sincerely to thank you for having convened and for presiding over the fifth debate on this extremely important topic. Algeria is gratified that the United Nations system has taken a holistic approach to combat illegality and silence and that it has mobilized to saf…
Algeria welcomes the attention that the Security Council continues to devote to the issue of small arms, whose importance for the maintenance of international peace and security is now self-evident. I thank the Secretary- General for his report (S/2003/1217) and Mr. Abe for his excellent introductio…
First, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and on the praiseworthy manner in which you are leading the Council’s work. I also thank you and all members of the Council for the welcome and assistance that the Algerian delegation has received …
Document A/58/35, which is before us today — the report of the Palestinian Rights Committee — draws up an exhaustive and well-documented list of the exactions and brutalities committed by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian people and thereby places our review of the question of Pal…
I have the honour to speak on behalf the Non-Aligned Movement Working Group on the revitalization of the General Assembly and the reform of the United Nations.
Mr. President, the main point that the Non- Aligned Movement Working Group wishes to convey today is its strong support for your continued …
There is no doubt that, without peace there can be no
development. In many African countries facing conflict, development efforts — even when still possible — have inevitably been eroded. Notwithstanding the important progress that has been made in peace-building and development in recent years, th…
I would like to thank Ambassador John Negroponte, the Permanent Representative of the United States and current president of the Security Council for the month
of October, for his comprehensive introduction of the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly.
An analysis of the Ch…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for having agreed so promptly to the request of the Arab Group to hold this open meeting to consider an event of extreme gravity that has imperiled international peace and security just a few days after many world leaders came to the United Nations to …
It has taken so much loss of human life; such unspeakable horror and terrible destruction; the bloodcurdling terror of millions of innocent people subjected to a horrible campaign of shock and fright, coldly conceived and planned; and hundreds of millions of people crying tears of blood before the f…
Tension is now at its height and the international community is holding its breath as the Security Council prepares to take a painful and wrenching decision, fraught with consequences both for international peace and security — since the issue at hand is nothing less than the authorization of the us…
My country joined the consensus on the important draft resolution that we are about to adopt because we believe that, despite its shortcomings and ambiguities, this text is generally satisfactory and is geared towards the necessary reform and essential strengthening of the Organization that we all d…
The item that we are considering today, on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations, gives us an overview of the interaction that can exist between the United Nations and those organizations and of the potential for synergy in such cooperation, which, engaged in wi…
My delegation is grateful to the Secretary-General for his exhaustive reports on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (A/57/172) and on the impleme…
First of all, I would like to express my pleasure and confidence at seeing you, Mr. President, presiding over the work of the Council at this very delicate moment in international relations. I know that your experience, abilities and fine human qualities will be severely tested during the next two w…
I should like to begin by thanking the President of the Security Council for October, Ambassador Belinga-Eboutou of Cameroon, for his detailed introduction of the Council’s report, submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with the relevant provisions of the United Nations Charter.
On behalf …
