Allow me at the outset to express to you, Sir, our thanks for immediately convening this meeting at the request of the Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon and the Group of Arab States.
As this is the first open meeting of the month, we congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency and wish you ev…
By any standard, our meetings today are a momentous and special event. The fact that an entire day of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly has been devoted to following up on the outcome of the
twenty-sixth special session of the Assembly and to assessing the implementation of the Decla…
It is regrettable that, despite all of the efforts of the Arab Group in general and of the Syrian delegation in particular, and notwithstanding the flexibility and patience that we have shown in the past few days, we have not been able to achieve the desired result. We were not able to do so in spit…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, for holding this meeting and for your positive response to our request to make it open to all Member States. We wish once again to welcome Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General in the Middle East.
Our meeting today is characteri…
My delegation welcomes the adoption by consensus of the draft resolution on the Western Sahara. Any lack of agreement between Arab parties is of great concern to Syria. Syria always makes every possible effort to resolve differences between Arab parties. We hope that the consensus resolution that we…
At the outset, allow me to warmly welcome Ambassador Jones Parry, the new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations. We wish him every success in his new post, and we assure him that we wish to continue the sincere
and productive cooperation enjoyed by our two delegations…
At the outset I must express my appreciation to my neighbour, Ambassador Greenstock. I wish to add my voice to the President’s observations at the start of this meeting on his role in strengthening the Security Council. Let me stress to him that we shall miss his constructive role and deep experienc…
The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the holding of this meeting. We would like to convey our gratitude to you personally, Mr. President, in your capacity as the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), for the great efforts you have made in the last three months. We fully a…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for
having convened this meeting to discuss the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We are pleased to express to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, our gratitude for his briefing, in which he contri…
I should like to thank you, Madam, for convening this meeting of the Council to consider the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno and Mr. Ramcharan, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, for their briefings on the human ri…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We express our full support for all your efforts for the maintenance of international peace and security. We thank Ambassador Lavrov and the friendly delegation of the Russian Federation fo…
My delegation would like to express its deep gratitude to you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We concur with what you said about how much we will regret the departure of Ambassador
Traoré, who has made earnest and unstinting eff…
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to express to you our appreciation for convening this meeting. Our particular appreciation goes also to the Deputy Secretary-General and to Mr. Malloch Brown, Mr. Morris, Mr. Nabarro, Mr. Kastberg and Mr. Kellenberger. We listened very attentively to their briefings, and…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Secretary- General most sincerely for having submitted his report on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET).
We welcome Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of UNMISET. We thank him for having in…
I would like to join preceding speakers in welcoming Mr. Morris and to express my satisfaction at his very informative briefing. This is one of the most urgent and important of issues and is one to which the Security Council has not devoted enough time. As Ambassador Greenstock mentioned, there are …
We wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption to the presidency of the Security Council for the current month, and we wish you success. We pledge our full cooperation, and we thank you for convening this meeting. We express our
appreciation for the efforts made by your predecessor,…
Allow me at the outset to express our wholehearted thanks to the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB) and to thank Mr. Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for this morning’s briefing on recent developments on the …
I should like at the outset most particularly to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor. We also wish to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing on the report and on the latest de…
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to express my heartfelt condolences to the Governments of Afghanistan and of Pakistan with respect to the air crash that killed the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industry as well as several Pakistani officials.
We would like to welcome among us Mr. Guéhenno, Ambassador …
It is difficult for anybody to take the floor after Ambassador Greenstock’ s valuable remarks. However, the statement by the representative of Israel makes it hard for me not to say a few words.
Syria has always been proud of having been among the first countries to combat terrorism, and of having …
