Since we are meeting in this smaller room, rather than in the big Hall of the General Assembly, I hope this means that there will be a greater meeting of minds on this issue.
Conflict prevention is like motherhood. Everybody worships it; nobody opposes it. But unfortunately, conflict prevention doe…
Let me begin with a brief word of apology and a brief word of thanks. I would like to apologize to my colleagues for not having been here earlier this morning. But like you, Mr. President, I was called to another room by a meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the
Question of Equitable Represe…
I will not hold up the proceedings any more, but there is a reason for my intervention. I think I owe an explanation to members of the Council for holding up the proceedings.
From time to time, several of us have met privately and have indeed expressed concern about the way these speakers’ lists ar…
My understanding is that, at the informal consultations, we reached an understanding that there would be no speakers’ list. I am curious to see who made the decision to change the Council’s decision.
I apologize for interrupting the proceedings, Sir, but you referred in your introduction to the point that we are meeting here on the basis of prior consultations.
We were present at the consultations yesterday. I just want to reconfirm that the proceedings this morning will proceed on the basis of…
I, too, would like to begin by thanking Mr. Guéhenno, Ms. McAskie and Mr. Fall for their presentations. I would also like especially to thank Mr. Fall for the excellent report that he has submitted to us.
There is one main point that I would like to emphasize in my remarks today: that the Council h…
Canada should be commended for introducing this issue on the agenda of the Security Council and, in particular, for its contribution to the work on this issue during its presidency of the Security Council in April 2000. We would like to commend you, Mr. President, for organizing this follow-up meeti…
Like others, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Marie Guéhenno for the briefing he gave us, and I also want to add, Mr. President, that we are very happy with this format you have instituted of having an interactive
session to discuss issues like this. I think this allows us, hopef…
You have asked us to dispense with formalities, Sir, so we will not congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency. But we would like to say publicly what we have told you privately: that we strongly support your efforts to reform the working methods of the Council. The interactive meeting we…
Please allow me to begin with some brief words of welcome. First, I would like to welcome Mr. Wolfgang Petritsch. Secondly, I would like to welcome Ambassador Noureddine Mejdoub of Tunisia, my neighbour on my left, and to congratulate him on his maiden appearance and speech. And finally, I would als…
I would like to join you, Mr. President, and our colleagues in warmly welcoming the Foreign Minister. Given the lateness of the hour I will be brief, but I hope that our brevity will not be misunderstood as any lack of sympathy or lack of support for the concerns that are being expressed by the Fore…
I too would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his comprehensive briefing. It is unfortunate that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Hans Haekkerup, is not able to meet with the Council today. I think, as Ambassador Lavrov said, it would ha…
First, we would like to warmly welcome you, Mr. President, as you preside over our meeting this morning. We would also like to join our colleagues in welcoming warmly President Kagame to this meeting.
Since you, Sir, have urged us to be brief in the interests of time, I will just mention three poin…
We should like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this timely and important debate, as well as for circulating a very useful background paper on the subject of peace- building. I, like my colleagues, would like to welcome the Secretary-General, who by his presence here demonstrates the impo…
Given the lateness of the hour, please allow me to quickly but warmly
congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Council, and to say that the Council is in very good hands this month. Like the delegation of the United States, we are delighted to see a powerful constellation of Tunisia…
I have to begin on a sombre note. First, we would like to thank all our friends and colleagues who have conveyed their sympathies and condolences to us on the tragic crash of the Singapore Airlines aircraft in Taipei yesterday. Secondly, as nationals of several countries lost their lives in the acci…
The draft resolution under the agenda item entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula”, which we are considering, is likely to sail through the General Assembly quickly and smoothly. As a result, not many in this Hall may be aware that what we are witnessing today is truly h…
At the outset, please allow me to thank the President of the Security Council for the month of October, Ambassador Martin Andjaba, for the excellent presentation he made today of the annual report of the Security Council for the period 16 June 1999 to 15 June 2000. I would also like to thank the Sec…
I know it is very dangerous to stand before a herd of diplomats who are dying to rush off for lunch, so I shall be very brief.
First of all let me congratulate you, Sir, on your excellent conduct of this morning’s proceedings. There were times when my heart stopped beating and I thought we would no…
I can see that you are not having an easy time at this meeting, Sir. I hope that my contribution today will make your job much easier rather than much harder.
Like many others in this room, I hope that we will not leave it without taking action on the draft resolution before us. We have literally l…
