I thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his second valuable and comprehensive report in the past month on this issue. We are very grateful to him and to you, Mr. President, for your efforts and for your leadership, Sir, in calling for this meeting today.
Before I comment on East Timor, with …
I thank you once again, Mr. President, for coming from far-away Canada to chair this important meeting. I am delighted to see that you have some members of the Canadian legislature here with you today. We have been lucky enough to have had many members of the United States Congress here with us in t…
I would like to thank you again, Mr. Minister, for coming back from Canada to chair this important meeting. I accept the mandate of the Security Council to lead this mission and am delighted that the membership of it is shaping up. I think it would be useful to note that a prior mission to Kosovo wi…
I am particularly honoured to be here today, under your presidency, Sir, at this important meeting, and I am delighted that you intend to spend so much of the month of Canada’s presidency of the Security Council with us here in New York. We greatly look forward to working under your leadership. I al…
It is a great honour to sit here today before you, Mr. President. We are delighted that you have made the long trip from Bangladesh to chair the Security Council and to continue the tradition that the Foreign Minister of Argentina conducted last month, and that Vice-President Gore and Secretary Albr…
Thank you, Sir, for the extraordinarily effective way you have presided over the Security Council. You said at the end of January that you would work with the United States, which had the honour of being in the presidency last month, in a seamless transition. We pledged to our friends who are concer…
I congratulate you, Sir, on taking over the gavel as President of the Security Council. I apologize for being late, but I had the chance to have a good exchange of views with Sergio Vieira de Mello earlier this morning. In fact, I was delayed because I was trying to gain some additional American sup…
I will be brief, and I wish to comment on what I think has been another excellent discussion on three levels.
First, with respect to style, I am deeply impressed by the informality here. I think it is what the founding fathers of the United Nations — there were no founding mothers, I regret to say …
I wish to thank Mr. Miyet for his excellent opening statement. As he mentioned, I am just back from Africa, and I would like to reply based on what I observed, building on our excellent meeting of yesterday. I would like to try to observe yesterday’s five-minute rule again and reserve the right to t…
I want to praise you for your comments and I want to make one important explanation because, to a very considerable extent, we are part of the reason for this delay in the United Nations peacekeeping. I would just like to repeat to my dear friend from South Africa what I said to President Mbeki and …
I am honoured to represent the United States today and to speak for the first time from this historic podium to commemorate and mark the passing of President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia.
I knew him well and worked with him closely. He was a major historical figure, and he has written an important pag…
I will try to follow your five-minute rule, Sir. I apologize for leaving the meeting briefly, but I believe it was necessary — indeed, essential — for me to speak in the General Assembly on the passing of President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia.
I want to praise the United Kingdom for calling this impo…
Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this public meeting on such an important subject.
I also want to thank the Secretary-General for his statement and all that he has done personally to strengthen the Security Council's role in preventing armed conflict and dealing with its consequences.
The Uni…
I thank the delegation of Slovenia for convening this historic Security Council meeting. I would especially like to thank the Foreign Minister of Slovenia and Ambassador Türk for the enormous amount of work they have done to make it possible to hold a meeting that could not have been imagined four y…
I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for calling this important meeting today.
With regard to today’s meeting on Sierra Leone, I want to begin by welcoming the statements made and by welcoming the new Permanent Representatives of Nigeria and of Sierra Leone to the United Nations where I, too,…
Thank you, Mr. President, for holding today’s important meeting. Your Government should be commended highly for pursuing this important initiative. In this regard, allow me also to express my own Government’s firm support for the Security Council draft resolution before us this morning.
When Presid…
I am deeply honoured to speak before the Council today on Africa, an area that I have pledged will be one of my highest priorities as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. I thank Prime Minister Kok for his leadership, and I appreciate all the hard work done by his strong delegation to…
In the light of what you have just announced, Mr. President, and in order to allow the maximum number of speakers today, I will shorten my statement so that more representatives can speak, because of the enormous importance of this subject.
In a certain ironic sense, it is a pleasure — or, to be mo…
I want to express my deep gratitude to the President of the Security Council and
Yesterday, the Security Council heard from Mr. Bernard Kouchner, the Secretary-General’s superb Special Representative in Kosovo, about the challenges the United Nations faces in that part of the world. Those challenge…
