I should like to take up two statements made in the general debate this morning. First, I would like to respond briefly to the remarks about Gibraltar made today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain. The long-standing position of the British Government on this matter is well known. We will c…
Thank you, Mr. President and Minister, and welcome to New York. It is very good to see you today presiding over this Council meeting, at which Hédi Annabi has, as usual, given us a most helpful and incisive briefing.
As the representative of Denmark will speak later on behalf of the European Union,…
My thanks to Jean-Marie Guehenno for another typically very helpful, comprehensive and useful briefing. I will be as brief as I possibly can this morning because, as others have noted, the representative of Spain will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union.
There are a few points I would…
It is very good to see you in the chair again, Sir.
It is late and I will try to be brief, but I want to say at the outset that the international community and the United Nations have already achieved a very great deal in Afghanistan. I should like to pay particular tribute to the excellent work of…
I would like to join the Secretary-General in welcoming here today President-elect Xanana Gusmão and Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri.
As Kofi Annan said, today is indeed an emotional moment. Those of us — and there are lots around this table today — who have been personally involved with East Timor ov…
I am very grateful for Michael Steiner for an excellent first briefing of the Council. It is also good to have here with us today Deputy Prime Minister Čović. It was particularly nice, I think, to see Bernard Kouchner here listening to Mr. Steiner’s first briefing, and I hope that the French delegat…
Time is short, and I will abbreviate my statement. But there are a few points I would like to make this morning. The first is to say how touched we are that on her final day in office, Ms. Bertini has chosen to come and talk to the Council. During the time that she has been in office, the scale and …
The Permanent Representative of Spain will speak on behalf of the European Union later in this debate, and I fully associate myself with the statement he will make then.
It is right that the Council should be meeting in emergency session this evening. The situation is extremely critical for the mil…
First, let me extend a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Čović and convey our thanks to Assistant Secretary- General Annabi for — as always — a very helpful, useful and informative briefing. My delegation associates itself with the statement that will be made by Spain on behalf of the European U…
Welcome to New York and to the Security Council, Mr. Foreign Minister.
Your presence here, and that of the Deputy Secretary- General, who briefed us earlier this morning, are ample testimony to Afghanistan’s importance for the United Nations. I hope your presence and your conduct of this meeting wi…
I join in the tributes that have been paid to Ambassador Shen. Over the last three and a half years, he has become not only a good colleague but a good friend as well. I, personally, will miss him.
Mr. President, congratulations on a very good month. The output of the Council should not be measured…
Mr. President, I can be relatively brief this morning, not least because the representative of Spain will be speaking later in the debate on behalf of the European Union. But, before starting my statement, I did want to mark the presence with us this morning of Prime Minister Howard of Australia and…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for what has been another very useful briefing today.
As Mr. Guéhenno just said, the period under review has covered some very significant achievements and developments in Kosovo, not least among them the November elections and the e…
I thank Ambassador Gambari for what I think was a most important and most significant report on his visit, which I think was itself most important and most
significant. I would like to express the thanks of my delegation to the Government of Angola for the extremely useful and forthcoming reception…
Congratulations, Sir, and welcome to the presidency. You have our strong support in what promises to be a very busy month.
My thanks also to Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for the briefing he has given us today.
We are here at a pretty crucial time for the future of policing in Bosnia and Herz…
As the time is getting on, I shall try to keep my remarks very brief. My thanks go first to our three briefers today: the Presidents of the two Tribunals and the chief Prosecutor. I am sorry that other business meant that I
had to leave the room for some of their presentations, but I have been full…
First, I should like to associate myself with the statement which will be made later on in this debate by the representative of Belgium on behalf of the European Union.
The United Kingdom welcomes the successful and peaceful Kosovo Assembly elections on 17 November. We also welcome the participatio…
I thank Kenzo Oshima for a very interesting and useful briefing. I think this meeting is indeed quite useful: this is a subject to which the United Kingdom attaches tremendous importance, and it is very important that work on it should go on. I will own up to Ambassador Valdivieso that I myself part…
I welcome Minister Miranda to the Council Chamber this afternoon. It is a great honour for us to have had two such senior representatives of the Angolan Government with us here in such a short space of time. I think it is a testimony to the importance with which both the Council and the Government o…
I would like to respond briefly to the remarks made today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain about Gibraltar. The longstanding position of the British Government on this matter is well known, and we continue to stand by the commitment to the people of Gibraltar set out in the Preamble to t…
