I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January. You can rest assured that you have our full support for your work. We are very pleased to take our seat at the Security Council table today as a new, elected member. I also w…
We entered this race for a Security Council seat 11 years ago, and we believe that we are a good candidate and a good fit for today’s Council. Our campaign was always for Slovenia and the values we represent. We were never campaigning against any other candidate.
We do not approve of the way this c…
At the outset, allow me to thank Brazil and my friend Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota for convening today’s important and timely debate on the interdependence between security and development. I welcome the decision to build upon the relevant conclusions of recent Security Council debate…
I would like to begin, Sir, with a word of congratulation and admiration for the work done by your predecessor, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab of Namibia, and by Ambassadors John de Saram and Hans Dahlgren, the two co-Vice- Chairmen of the Open-ended Working Group. The progress made in the Working Group is to…
Five years have passed since the conclusion of the Dayton Peace Agreement. It cannot be repeated and recalled often enough that the Peace Agreement ended the most brutal and devastating armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War. The Peace Agreement in all its aspects and phases created a f…
Four years have passed since the conclusion of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the most devastating and brutal armed conflict in Europe since the end of the Second World War. The ordeal of war in Bosnia brought lessons of global importance. It was a war of aggression against an emerging State, as …
Slovenia appreciates the leadership of the United Kingdom in the convening of this action-oriented open debate today on the United Nations partnership with Africa. We believe that the Security Council should be innovative in searching for ways to address better the responsibilities conferred on it b…
My delegation wants to join others, Sir, in expressing satisfaction at seeing Namibia, and you personally, presiding over the work of the Security Council in the month of August. We want to express our full confidence in your guidance of the Council during these turbulent times.
Today the peace pro…
Allow me to say first a word of condolence at the passing of His Highness Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, the Amir of Bahrain. Shaikh Isa Khalifa was a pillar of peace in his region and commanded wide respect internationally. He will be missed by the international community as a whole. My delegati…
Slovenia associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Luxembourg on behalf of European Union (EU) and would like to add a few points.
My delegation would like to thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for preparing the report on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organ…
