Slavery may have been about the sale and subjugation of Africans, but its impact was felt throughout the entire African continent. To this day, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean are said to remain dark and murky with the blood of Africans stolen from all along the western coast, as far south as the w…
Mr. Minister, we thank you once again for presiding over the work of the Council. We in South Africa hope that next month we will be able to achieve as much as your presidency has done.
Let me also welcome the Under-Secretary- General for Disarmament Affairs; the Director General of the Organizatio…
Let me start by commending the delegation of Slovakia for organizing this important initiative. We commend it particularly for developing this theme over a long time before this debate and for its commitment to continue refining it further beyond today.
We, too, would like to recognize the contribu…
My delegation hopes that the adoption of this resolution will demonstrate to the people of Somalia that the international community does indeed care about their situation. The deployment of the African Union Mission is a start. We hope that it will signal that the international community, through th…
My delegation wishes to associate itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
We, too, welcome the decision by Fatah and Hamas to form a government of national unity in Palestine. The significance of the Mecca accord lies in the fac…
Let me start by congratulating you, Sir, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council this month. We look forward to working under your guidance this month.
We also thank the delegation of the Russian Federation for having guided us last month.
We welcome Prime Minister José Ramos-H…
We thank the delegation of the Russian Federation for organizing this important meeting on post-conflict peacebuilding. My delegation is pleased that the Security Council extended an invitation to the Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the General Assembly, the President of the Economic and…
I regret to inform the Council that South Africa will vote against the draft resolution on Myanmar. My Government decided on this action on the basis of the following three reasons. First, we believe that this draft resolution would compromise the good offices of the Secretary-General in dealing wit…
I, too, wish to welcome Mr. Solana. It is always good to hear him brief on African issues, in which he is deeply involved. We also appreciate the briefings we received from Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Gambari on their support of the process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Everything that has happ…
Let me congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month.
We also welcome Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to his first meeting with the Security Council. We wish him well and we are among the delegations that are very delighted that he has chosen Ms. Migiro of T…
Madam President, let me thank you once again, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, for having given us an opportunity to honour the legacy of our beloved Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, one last time.
In one of the finest hours of the United Nations, under the leadership of Kofi Annan, the la…
Once again, we meet to discuss two reports — one from the Security Council, reporting on its work for the year 2005-2006, and the other from the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the United Nations major conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields is essential and must remain the priority role of the Unit…
The Group of 77 and China welcomes the adoption of the resolution on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council. With the adoption of this resolution, the United Nations has reaffirmed the role of the Economic and Social Council as the central mechanism for system- wide coordination in pro…
We would like to thank the delegation of Japan for organizing this very important meeting. We are also pleased by the participation of Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), a body that has already been involved in the implementation of this…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, we wish to thank the Secretary-General for his three reports on the items we are discussing today: the Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the causes of conflict …
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, I am honoured to extend our congratulations to Mr. Ban Ki-moon on his election as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, starting 1 January 2007. The Group of 77 and China wishes to convey our assurance to him of our support throughout his term in office…
Mr. President, I wish to thank you for having convened this meeting.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Today we are completing a process which started eight months ago, in which our leaders, through the World Summit Outcome, laid the foundation for enhancing develo…
I should like to make a general statement on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The Group of 77 and China hopes that, with the adoption of this resolution, we will all move ahead and deal with the reform of the United Nations. There are many issues that await our collective decision, and it is ti…
Allow me, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, to welcome the Secretary-General to this meeting today. We thank him for his report and note that it is indeed unusual for the Secretary-General to address Member States before the formal introduction of his reports.
Like the Secretary-General, we a…
