First of all, Mr. President, I wish to thank you for organizing this debate on small arms. I also thank the Secretary- General for his report and Mr. Dhanapala for his supplementary comments.
France associates itself fully with the statement that will be made by Denmark, which currently holds the p…
I wish to pay tribute to you, Sir, for personally presiding over our work on Kosovo today. I also wish to thank Hédi Annabi for his very complete briefing on the situation in Kosovo.
As Mr. Annabi has told us, a few weeks away from municipal elections in Kosovo, we find ourselves at a crossroads on…
I would like to thank Mr. Michael Steiner for his excellent briefing and also welcome Mr. Čović, the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and the President of the Coordinating Centre of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo.
Since the representative of Denmark will soo…
We agree on every point with Mr. Oshima’s briefing. My Government had also dispatched a humanitarian mission to Angola at approximately the same time as Mr. Oshima’s visit to the country, and we agree with his conclusions.
The humanitarian situation is still a source of concern, despite the hopes g…
In a few days’ time, the loya jirga will be opened. Clearly, this is a very important stage, as Sir Kieran has just said, in the implementation of the Bonn and Petersburg Agreements — that is, the implementation of the reconstruction of and reconciliation in Afghanistan.
Clearly, as Sir Kieran has …
I would like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his clear and precise statement, which provided a perfect account of the superb work carried out by the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) under the direction of Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello. We are sure that after independence, …
I wish at the outset to welcome you personally, Sir, to the Security Council on the occasion of this important debate and to thank Norway and Ambassador Ole Peter Kolby for having led and organized the recent mission of members of the Security Council to Ethiopia and Eritrea at a particularly timely…
I consider this discussion to be very useful, thanks to the briefing provided by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) through Mr. Oshima. From the information provided by Vice-Minister Chikoti, we know that the humanitarian situation in Angola is extremely alarming; hence t…
I should like to thank the High Commissioner for Refugees for his briefing.
With respect to his opening remarks on the fight against terrorism, which he said must in no way compromise international protection of the right to asylum, I have nothing to add. I believe that we agree with them word for …
I would like to thank you, Sir, for the excellent way that you have presided over the Council in the month of January. I would also like to bid farewell, but not adieu, to our colleague, Ambassador Shen. Goodbye. We are certain we shall see you again.
Ambassador Levitte would have liked to be able …
France will not say farewell to you as in the song, Madam President, as you certainly will remain here with us beyond the month of your presidency. As other speakers have already said, your mark, and that of your country, on the work of the Security Council and the United Nations extends beyond the …
We thank Judge Pillay, Judge Jorda and Ms. Del Ponte for their briefings. I wish to comment on both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
With respect to the ICTY, we thank Judge Jorda for reminding us of the …
I wish to thank Mr. Kenzo Oshima for the briefing he gave us on the implementation of the Secretary-General’s recommendations on the important issue of protecting civilians in armed conflict.
With your permission, Madam President, I would like to pick up on a few points mentioned in the excellent l…
I would like to pay a tribute to the very professional and excellent work accomplished by the Panel of Experts chaired by Mr. Martin Ayafor. The other day Ambassador Mahbubani mentioned the cost of the Panel’s operation, which, we believe, appears to be entirely justified in view of the very substan…
I wish to tell you, Sir, that we are very happy to have you as President for the second time in the course of this month. I would also like to say how happy we have been to work with the excellent Colombian presidency through the month of August, headed by Ambassador Valdivieso and all his team. I w…
I believe that Mr. Annabi’s briefing today was timely. As he reminded us, the Secretary-General will be visiting the region in a few days’ time, and last week the Gaborone meeting on national dialogue — to which he referred — took place.
I should like to make a few brief comments. The representativ…
France associates itself with the position that will be stated by Ambassador De Ruyt on behalf of the
European Union. I would just like to make several comments from our national perspective. First, we thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for the briefing he has just given. I would like to focus on two is…
Belgium will speak later on behalf of the European Union. France fully associates itself with what will be said by the representative of Belgium.
The situation in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, is worrisome. The escalation of violence is tragic. Since our last debate, that violence has incre…
Mr. President, I would like to start by welcoming you to New York. I would also like to thank the Secretary- General for his statement.
Mr. President, I thank you for having organized this debate, following upon the adoption on 20 July in New York of the Programme of Action of the United Nations Co…
France associates itself with the statement that Belgium will make later on behalf of the European Union. I will merely make a few comments in my national capacity.
First, I wish to thank Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello and Mr. José Ramos-Horta for the clarity and the precision of their statements. With…
