At the outset, I would like to express our gratitude for your welcome initiative to hold today’s Security Council meeting on justice and the rule of law and to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his introductory briefing on the item under consideration.
Concerning the particular situat…
Allow us, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for having kindly convened this important meeting of the Security Council on the
situation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We wish to welcome Mr. Javier Solana, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European …
Allow me first of all to say how pleased I am, Mr. President, to see you leading the Security Council during this month of February. I am certain you will discharge your noble mission with dedication and success. Allow me also to congratulate your predecessor, the representative of France, for the s…
First of all, I have the pleasant duty of expressing my delegation’s satisfaction at seeing you, Sir, presiding over the Council for the month of May. While paying tribute to the skills of your predecessor, the representative of the Russian Federation, I should like to say how grateful we are that y…
I would like to add my voice to those of other speakers at this tribune to convey to you, Sir, my keen and heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of your election to the presidency of the fifty- sixth session of the General Assembly. I am convinced
that your wisdom, intellectual ability and dipl…
Allow me to begin with the pleasant task of expressing the satisfaction of my delegation on seeing the Security Council led in the month of July by the representative of the People’s Republic of China, a country with which we have excellent relations characterized by mutual esteem and trust.
Allow …
I wish first of all, on behalf of my Government and on my own account, to convey our deep condolences to the Government and the people of the Republic of Zimbabwe on the untimely death of His Excellency Mr. Moven Mahachi, Minister of Defence, who died last Saturday in a traffic accident. Mr. Mahachi…
My delegation apologizes for taking the floor at this late hour. We merely wish to thank you, Mr. President, and, through you, the entire Bureau of the General Assembly, for having responded favourably to the request by the United Kingdom to add the item on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict.…
My delegation had no intention of taking the floor at this late stage of our work, especially following the remarkable statement made by Mr. Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
My delegation will therefore b…
I apologize for taking the floor once more at this late stage in the debate, and I shall be very brief. My delegation wishes first to tell our compatriot, the representative of Rwanda, that we are pleased to note that he acknowledges the presence of Rwandan troops in
Once again today the representatives of Rwanda and of Burundi have been talking nonsense and telling unspeakable lies about the dreadful role their countries are playing through their senseless and unjust invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their statements do not
My delegation recall…
