At the outset I wish to congratulate you, Sir, upon your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December. I also wish to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador Voto-Bernales of Peru for the able manner in which he led the work of the Council during the month of No…
Every year the General Assembly convenes to consider the annual draft resolution entitled “The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security”.
We express our appreciation to the Secretary- General for his report of 11 September 2006 on the situation in Afghanist…
At the outset, I should like to congratulate, you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March. I very much appreciate your personal knowledge of the Afghan situation. I also wish to pay tribute to Ambassador John Bolton of the United States, yo…
We have gathered here today, one week prior to the fourth anniversary of the signing of the Bonn Agreement, on 5 December 2001. It is high time to evaluate the developments that have transpired in Afghanistan over the past four years and to assess the remaining challenges ahead of us.
Just two mont…
Let me begin by extending our condolences to the people and the Government of Spain and the bereaved families of the 17 Spanish soldiers who lost their lives as a result of a tragic helicopter crash in the western province of Herat, Afghanistan, on 16 August 2005. I also extend my condolences to the…
Let me begin by mentioning the major event that took place yesterday,
7 December 2004: a historic day for the people of Afghanistan. The first democratically elected President of Afghanistan, Mr. Hâmid Karzai, was sworn in as President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. That outstanding and me…
Allow me, Mr. President, to express to you our deep sorrow and sympathy in relation to the two tragic airline accidents that took place yesterday in Russia. Through you, we convey our condolences to the Russian Government, to the Russian people and to the families of the victims.
Allow me also to p…
I would like to begin, Mr. President, by expressing my appreciation to you for convening this important meeting on Afghanistan. I would also like to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and you, Mr. President, for your comprehensive briefings on the out…
I am very grateful to Mr. Guéhenno, Ambassador Nishimura and Mr. Braun, who have given briefings that have elicited many very relevant questions about Afghanistan, even though some of these questions have already been answered to some extent. I, too, look forward to the answers that will be given.
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I would like to express our gratitude to Mr. Jan Kavan, President of the General Assembly, for having convened on 18 November 2002 an open-ended panel of the General Assembly entitled “Afghanistan: One Year Later”. The outcome of the debate in that panel contributed positively to the formulation of …
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to congratulate you for successfully conducting the presidency of the Security Council during the month of July. I express special gratitude for holding this open meeting on the situation in Afghanistan. I am certain the proceedings of the Council will be h…
Mr. President, I am thankful to you for presiding once again over a meeting dedicated to Afghanistan. We appreciate the report of the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Prendergast. His report enables me to shorten my statement.
Approximately six months have passed since the Afghan …
On behalf of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan, I would like to express profound gratitude to Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his recent appeal for emergency humanitarian assistance for the victims of the tragic earthquake in northern Afghanistan on the night of 25- 26 March 2002.
The eart…
I am pleased to see you, Sir, preside over a meeting on Afghanistan at this historic time. I am thankful to the Government of Germany for having hosted the Bonn meeting, which brought about so many changes in Afghanistan.
I should also like to thank Ambassador Kastrup and his colleagues, who worked…
At the outset, on behalf of the Government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, and on my own behalf, I wish to express my profound condolences to the Government of the United States of America and the American nation, as well as the families that lost their loved ones in the unfortunate crash of Am…
The recent dramatic and terrible events started in the United States at about 9 a.m. on 11 September. However, just two days earlier, on 9 September, oceans away in Afghanistan, two terrorists of Arab origin, posing as journalists, assassinated the greatest military leader of free Afghanistan, Comma…
I should like first of all to congratulate you warmly, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for June 2001. We are also grateful to the head of the Mission of the United States to the United Nations for presiding over the Council for the month of May. We are als…
Since the General Assembly last considered the situation in Afghanistan on 17 December 1999 and adopted resolution 54/189, the direct involvement of Pakistani military personnel and non-Afghan combatants in the current conflict in Afghanistan has escalated considerably.
The international community …
First of all, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December 2000. May I also congratulate your predecessor on the skill with which he presided over the Council last month.
In resolution 1267 (1999) of 15 October 1…
Speaking on behalf of the delegation of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, I would like to make some observations concerning agenda item 41, “Question of Palestine”.
Thirty-three years have now elapsed since the Security Council adopted resolution 242 (1967), which calls upon Israel to put an end to…
