Allow me at the outset, Sir, to thank the Pakistan presidency for having convened this meeting. We are honoured to have you presiding over our debate.
This is an opportunity for us to discuss in the Security Council a topic of ongoing importance and relevance: the role of the Council in the peacefu…
Allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity provided us to have here in the Council this afternoon with us the President of the Government of Spain, Mr. José María Aznar. He honours us with his presence. We welcome the very insightful proposals and suggestions that Mr. Aznar has put fo…
Allow me, first of all, to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, which gives us an opportunity to discuss in the Security Council a matter of great importance and relevance for the international community as a whole with representatives of various regions, namely, the role of the Uni…
First of all, Sir, allow me to congratulate you on the excellent way in which you have conducted our work during this month. I would like to express the gratitude of the delegation of Chile for having convened this meeting to consider the Secretary-General’s report (S/2003/449), dated 21 April, on t…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having called this public meeting of the Security Council.
Chile reiterates its support for the greatest undertaking in the area of peace-building in the history of the United Nations, namely, the United Nations Interim Administration Miss…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, and the delegation of Mexico for convening this very important meeting. As has already been said, it falls within the best traditions of regional approaches and visions in Latin America since the foundation of the United Nations. This meeting is taking place…
I thank Mr. Morris for his briefing and for the valuable information he has given to the Council today.
As previous speakers have mentioned, one can only be powerfully struck by the dimensions of the task, by the severity of the crisis and by the difficulties faced by the World Food Programme (WFP)…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on presiding over our work for this month. I wish also to express our admiration for the intelligent and dignified manner in which Ambassador Mamady Traoré conducted the work of the Council during a particularly difficult month.
My country welcomes t…
Allow me, first of all, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the manner in which you have guided our work this month. I also wish to thank you for convening this open meeting to consider the report of the Secretary-General on the work being done by the United Nations Political Office in Bougainvil…
We have had a bitter briefing on the work programme for Iraq, presented to us by the inspectors. One can read only with sorrow what might have been when what might have been was peace. Everyone in this Chamber knows that Chile hoped that this inspections programme would be carried out. Our Governmen…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on the outstanding manner in which you have been guiding our work this month. I should like also to thank you, on behalf of the delegation of Chile, for having convened this meeting to consider the report of the Secretary- General dated 3 March on the…
I would like first of all to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations,
and High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello for their detailed briefings on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
My delegation wishes first of all to exp…
Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on convening this open debate of the Security Council on the situation in Kosovo. In the face of the great challenges ahead in 2003 and one year after the start of the gradual transfer of executive and legislative authority to the Kosovars, it seems hi…
First, I wish to convey the best wishes of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile, Soledad Alvear Valenzuela, who for reasons beyond her control was unable to participate in this meeting.
I thank the French presidency for convening this important ministerial-level meeting. I thank the Secretary-…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I also wish to thank you for having called this meeting to debate this painful subject.
Since this body began to focus special attention on this subject, just a few months ago, t…
Draft resolution A/57/L.38 has been the subject of informal consultations involving many delegations. The upshot of these consultations are reflected in the text that has been circulated regarding which I will now proceed to offer a number of oral amendments.
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Paragraph 3 should …
I have the honour to introduce to the General Assembly the draft resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, contained in document A/57/L.38. I should like to add the following countries to the list of sponsors: Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bos…
First of all, I should like to express to you, Sir, our congratulations on your wise leadership of the Security Council during this difficult period. The Chilean delegation also wishes to thank you for the convening of this open debate, an opportunity that enables us to express our own views on an i…
The draft resolution before the General Assembly today, entitled “South American zone of peace and cooperation”, is directly and closely related to the fundamental concepts underlying the very existence and reason for being of the United Nations.
The Preamble to the Charter of the Organization stat…
Several years ago, Luc Montaigner, the scientist who discovered the agent that causes AIDS, said that no disease in modern times had raised so many questions about our identity, values and sense of tolerance and responsibility. This disease indeed raises questions in every one of our countries and s…
