I should like to speak briefly in exercise of the right of reply to the remarks about the Chagos archipelago made today by the Prime Minister of Mauritius. The British Government maintains that the British Indian Ocean Territory is British and that it has been since 1814. It does not recognize the s…
Foreign Minister, Special Representative and Chief Minister, we welcome you to the Council. I am very grateful to you all for the helpful, useful and constructive statements that have been made today. I am grateful also to the representatives of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Prog…
I would like to thank David Stephen for his very useful introduction to our discussion today and to welcome the Prime Minister to the Security Council and to New York. It is a real pleasure to see you here again, Sir.
I would like, as you did, Mr. Prime Minister, to start my intervention with a ref…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haekkerup, for being here with us today. This late in the debate, I do not intend to make a comprehensive statement. Nor do I need to, since the Permanent Representative of Belgium will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union…
I, too, will be extremely brief. I can afford to do so not least because the representative of the European Union will be speaking later in the debate.
I would like to focus on three key points, the first of which is the streamlining exercise. I do not think it would be appropriate now for me to go…
Today we have reached another very important and significant milestone in the long process of seeking independence for East Timor, one which in a sense began with the Agreement of May 1999.
We have seen again, as we saw during the Popular Consultation, in 1999, the appetite of the East Timorese peo…
If I can paraphrase Ambassador Hume’s last comment, I will just make a short statement today because you, Sir, do not have time for me to make a long one.
It is good to have you here, Mr. Minister, and it is good to see the truly personal interest that you have taken during the last month, both in …
Being this low on the list of speakers at an open briefing, I think it would be inhumane of me to subject the Council to a long prepared statement, particularly as the Permanent Representative of Belgium will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union. But I want to thank the Assistant Secret…
My delegation would first like to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his briefing. It was, as always, an excellent, useful and helpful briefing, and I would like straight away to reiterate the United Kingdom’s support for the efforts of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Ko…
I should first like to associate my delegation with the statement that will be made on behalf of the European Union by the representative of Belgium later in the debate.
The United Kingdom is gravely concerned at the continuing violence in Israel and the occupied territories and the blockage of pro…
Let me wish you a very warm welcome, Mr. President, to New York and to the Security Council. I thank also the Secretary- General for his very useful and thoughtful introduction to the debate.
Since the representative of Belgium will be speaking on behalf of the European Union later in this debate, …
I am speaking in an interactive mode, if you like, so I will be very brief. But firstly, congratulations to you, Sir, and to your team for the way in which you have handled the presidency this month.
I would like to make two and a half quick points. Firstly, I want to take up the point made by Davi…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno for what I thought was an outstandingly thoughtful briefing this morning and one that we found very useful indeed.
As others have said, the representative of Sweden will speak later on this morning on behalf of the European Union, so I will keep my stateme…
Mr. Minister, it is very good to see you here today, and I well remember your visit during Bangladesh’s last presidency of the Security Council. It is truly a pleasure to have you back with us. I wish also to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her introduction to what is a very important and co…
I can be quite brief, first of all because the European Union presidency, in the person of the representative of Sweden, will speak later in the debate, and secondly because I think it would perhaps be a little de trop for me to inflict on the Council, again, a catalogue of the
general concerns tha…
I shall be brief, for two reasons: first, because there has already been a chance for an initial discussion of the report of the sanctions Committee, and, secondly, because one of the
important functions of this meeting is to allow Council members to hear the views of neighbouring States before the…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for a very useful briefing. It is particularly good to see here today Xanana Gusmão and José Ramos-Horta. For my delegation, it has been particularly useful to hear at first hand their assessment of the preparations for the elections in East Timor and for i…
Mr. Foreign Minister, it is very good to see you in the Chair again and a great honour to have you here.
Before welcoming the High Representative, I should also like to welcome the new Permanent Representatives of Tunisia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The United Kingdom delegation looks forward to wo…
It is extremely good to see you here today, Mr. President. A welcome also goes to the members of the Monitoring Mechanism, and thanks go to Ambassador Ryan for his very useful and comprehensive introduction to the debate.
It is right that the Council should be having this open debate today. The len…
I have no trouble with those amendments, but before we adopt this draft resolution, I would like it to be absolutely clear among all parties around this table that the basis for the withdrawal from Pweto — which is the subject of operative paragraph 4 of this draft resolution — the
substance of tha…
