At the outset, may I also express our delegation’s words of congratulations to the Secretary-General and assure him of our continued wholehearted support.
Mr. President, we welcome your initiative to conduct a wrap-up session of the work of the Security Council in this chamber. As you yourself note…
Today’s debate is timely. It has been 15 months since the Council last reviewed the developments in the situation between Iraq and Kuwait in this Chamber. The Security Council is also presently engaged in discussions on new arrangements to facilitate the flow of goods and commodities into Iraq and o…
First, Mr. President, we too would like to express our appreciation for your able leadership of the Council’s mission to Kosovo. We also express our thanks to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2001/565), which we found very useful as background to the mission. We further thank the Under-Secret…
Sir, the Singapore delegation joins our colleagues in expressing our pleasure at seeing you preside over the debate today. We would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her concise summary of the crucial points in the Secretary-General’s report.
A prodigious amount of work has been …
We thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for introducing the interim report of the Secretary- General on the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which Singapore fully supports. His further updates on the situation in East Timor were also very helpful. We warmly welcome Mr. Xanana Gusm…
I join the other members of the Council in welcoming Foreign Minister Miranda of Angola to today’s debate. I also take this opportunity to
thank Ambassador Ryan for his excellent presentation on the final report of the Monitoring Mechanism established under resolution 1295 (2000) in relation to the…
My delegation and I would like to express our appreciation to His Honour Judge Gilbert Guillaume for his detailed and lucid report on the work of the International Court of Justice for the period 1 August 1999 to 31 July 2000. We would also
like to congratulate him on his election as President of t…
My delegation is of the view that the consideration of this agenda item is an appropriate mark of respect for the Buddha, a great spiritual teacher of compassion and humanity whose teachings provide guidance and inspiration to nearly a quarter of the world's population. In fact, his teachings also p…
Like many other Member countries of the United Nations, Singapore was gravely concerned at the violent confrontations that occurred in September this year in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, after Israel opened a second entrance to the Western Wall tunnel, near the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem’s …
Singapore has once again voted in support of the resolution on this issue (A/51/L.15) which we have just adopted. In doing so, we still take no position on the specific bilateral problems that led to the imposition of the embargo against Cuba. This is a matter for the two countries to settle bilater…
