I would like to make just three brief points. First, I would like to express my gratitude for the kind words expressed to my Government for the part that it — together with many others — has played in this project.
Secondly, I am of course heartened by the support expressed in the Council for many …
Let me first thank you, Sir, for your invitation and for organizing this session on sanctions. There could be no better time than this, I think, to focus on the need to improve the instruments for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Many situations in the past, when words of condem…
The presidency of the European Union has already outlined the positive view of the European Union with regard to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). I concur with everything in that speech, and I will therefore limit myself to a few remarks.
We who speak today are all aware of the…
This Security Council meeting on the use of sanctions is of direct relevance to
the challenges that are on the minds of all of us these days. The search for effective tools in addressing threats to international peace and security is more urgent and more important than ever before. It can therefore…
On 10 September last year, the representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Nicholas Morris, briefed the members of the Security Council on the situation then prevailing in Kosovo. Mr. Morris had just arrived from the region, and he gave a very vivid descrip…
The Secretary-General's introduction to his report on the work of the Organization deals with the humanitarian challenge. And his remarks here at the opening of the general debate focused on the prospects for human security and intervention in the next century.
From the outset, I want to pay tribut…
Allow me also to thank all my colleagues around the table for their kind words addressed to me.
I would like to comment on the two questions that were posed by the representatives of Japan and the United States on the proposal for joint border surveillance between Sierra Leone and Liberia and possi…
I am grateful for this opportunity to brief the Security Council about my visit last week to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
I undertook that visit in my capacity as Chairman of the Sierra Leone sanctions Committee, and the Council will recall that, in its follow-up to the Secretary-General’s report on A…
My delegation, too, very much welcomes your initiative, Mr. President, for an open debate in the Security Council on the maintenance of peace and security and post-conflict peace-building. The title of
We know that the absence of war is not the same as a lasting peace. We know that a ceasefire is s…
It is not difficult to say who is to blame for the crisis between Iraq and the United Nations, a crisis which has been such a large part of the entire workload of the Security Council during the two years that we have sat at this table.
It is the Government of Iraq that again and again has refused …
We welcome this briefing as part of a regular exchange of views between the Security Council and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). My delegation also welcomes the format of this briefing and I want to thank you, Sir, for arranging it. We hope that this can also…
International terrorism constitutes a threat not only to individual lives, but also to international peace and security. This was true 10 years ago and is still true today, as we unfortunately have just recently experienced.
The search for clarity and justice in the cases of Pan Am flight 103 and U…
The people of Angola deserve a lasting peace. No one, least of all the civilian population, which has suffered so much already, can afford a continued deadlock in the peace process. The Angolan people deserve better than the current military tension and the armed attacks which have affected civilian…
Let me first state that Sweden fully associates itself with the statement made earlier today by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
The Government of Sweden deplores the recent decision by the Israeli Government to extend the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem munic…
Let me first say that I associate myself fully with the statement made by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
It is, indeed, appalling to learn how children of all ages are affected by armed conflict. They are recruited into armed combat — often by force, and s…
Let me first state that my delegation associates itself fully with the statement made earlier today by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
Less than three years ago, Bosnia and Herzegovina was a country in flames. In the summer of 1995, intense fighting was goi…
Since the first nuclear bomb fell on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 the whole issue of peace and survival has gained a new dimension. The development of nuclear weapons, and their proliferation, came to pose a new threat to mankind. And it was a unique threat, because we reached a stage where it was pos…
Let me first say that I concur with the statement made earlier by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
The wars in the former Yugoslavia were marked by horrendous crimes against international humanitarian law, often committed in the name of that repulsive policy…
Sweden fully agrees with the statement just made by the representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
It is now four years since the genocide in Rwanda, four years since that cruel wave of killings of up to 1 million people. In his recent report on Africa, the Secretary- Gen…
Let me first state that Sweden associates itself fully with the statement made by the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
We remain convinced that the United Nations presence should continue to be adapted to developments on the ground. We fully support the increase in the civilian polic…
