It gives me pleasure to express my great appreciation for the attention that the General Assembly has given to the Palestinian cause and to the deteriorating situation in the Middle East in pursuit of consolidating the foundations of peace and stability in the region and in support of Palestinians’ …
I wish to express my most sincere thanks to you, Mr. President, for the very kind words you have addressed to me as my mission in the Security Council is coming to an end.
I also wish to thank your delegation and all my colleagues — current members of the Security Council and those who left the Cou…
I should like first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting, which will, I am sure, enable us to have a constructive exchange of views on the important issue under consideration today. I should also like to express my great appreciation to Ambassador Chowdhury for his c…
Allow me at the outset to welcome to New York Minister Agba Otikpo Mezode and to thank our guests from the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organization of la Francophonie for their presence and for their exhaustive statements.
The Tunisian delegation has r…
First, I would like to express my delegation’s gratitude to you, Mr. President, for having convened this important meeting. I would also like to express my thanks to Mr. Guéhenno, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, and to Mr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nati…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting on Kosovo and for your continued interest in the Council’s work. I should also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his very informative and useful briefing on the progress made by the United Nations …
I wish first of all, Mr. President, to thank you and your delegation for the initiative to include the question of international terrorism on the December agenda of the Security Council. I wish also to thank Mr. Hans Corell for his comprehensive briefing on the roles of United Nations organs in the …
We are considering the question of Palestine once again. This is a tradition we follow every year, but the discussion today is held in a new climate — a negative one compared to that of last year’s discussion in the General Assembly and that since the Middle East peace process began.
The situation …
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to you, Mr. President, for having responded so promptly to the request to convene this urgent public meeting to discuss the grave and deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Security Council is meeting formally for the thir…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having proposed the theme “No exit without strategy” for discussion today. The participation of States non-members of the Council is likely to enhance this debate.
The consideration of this issue comes in the context of a major debate unfo…
I should like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on the Brahimi Report on United Nations peacekeeping operations.
My delegation would like to pay tribute to Mr. Brahimi and to the members of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations for the important docu…
Allow me at the outset to express to the delegations of Singapore and Angola our deep sorrow and condolences for the two airplane crashes in which many people lost their lives.
My delegation would also like to thank and commend the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on the Causes of Conflict and the P…
Assessment and monitoring of the results and recommendations of the World Summit for Social Development and the results of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly offer an opportunity to affirm the Declaration and the Programme of Action accepted by the international community, ass…
I should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to consider the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I should also like to thank Mr. Wolfgang Petritsch for his detailed and enlightening briefing on the development of situation in that country.
The report before us today…
I would first of all like to express our appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to Ambassador Andjaba, for turning the attention of the Security Council to such an important subject as the one before us today.
I would also like to take this opportunity to declare my country’s interest in any excha…
At the outset my delegation would like to thank the President of the Security Council for the month of October, Ambassador Andjaba of Namibia, for his comprehensive report on the work of the Council covering the period from 16 June 1999 to l5 June 2000.
It is also my pleasure once again to extend m…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Sir, for convening this formal meeting of the Security Council at the very start of your presidency of the Council for the month of October. We appreciate the serious-mindedness and determination you have demonstrated in discharging your responsibilities, and we wi…
First of all, I would like to thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the exhaustive report he has submitted to the current fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the work of the Organization during the past year.
As he does every year, the Secretary-General has painted a full picture of the…
I would like to congratulate you, Sir, for having convened this important meeting. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). This report tells us about the activities of that Mission. We also thank above al…
Madam President, I should like to express our deep appreciation to you for convening this public meeting to consider the question of Angola. I should also like to thank Professor Gambari for his excellent report on the situation in Angola, and to welcome Mr. Albino Malungo.
Although a certain degre…
