I would like to start by commending you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1308 (2000). This is a vitally important subject. I also want to thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno and Mr. Piot for their updates, their statements and for…
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this session today and for your leadership on this issue. I also want to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno and Ambassador Dahinden for their statements. It is important that the United Nations, the Security Council and our Governments as Member …
I am pleased to address the General Assembly today on the critical topic of strengthening the United Nations. I join others in thanking the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General Fréchette for their efforts to pursue and implement reform of the United Nations. We also wish to offer our appre…
I also wish to thank Ambassador Kalomoh and Minister Ramos Horta for their very informative presentations, providing us the opportunity to discuss events in Guinea-Bissau. I can be brief because my Government views things very much in the terms that Ambassador Pleuger has already set out.
We are wa…
Thank you, Mr. President, for providing the opportunity to discuss the centrality of justice and the rule of law in international affairs.
The United States of America is a nation founded, not upon ethnicity or cultural custom or territory, but upon law enshrined in our Constitution. As a consequen…
I will be brief, as you requested, Sir, but I do want to make a couple of points.
First, obviously we deplore and condemn the violence and attacks that have taken place in the last couple of months. I am afraid that this reminds all of us again of the primacy of establishing the rule of law in Koso…
Since this is the last time you will be with us, Sir, I want to say that we appreciate the effectiveness with which you and your colleagues have led our work this month. We wish you well with your new responsibilities in Geneva.
I can be brief, I think, because I agree with much of what has been sa…
I want to thank Deputy Prime Minister Covic for travelling to New York to address the Council. It was good to see him here again. I wish it were under better circumstances.
My authorities have condemned in the strongest terms the attack on and the murder of the young Kosovars on 13 August. It was a…
We share many of the sentiments expressed by other speakers so far around the table, and I think that there is a clear message of Council support to which I want to add. We similarly thank Ambassador Sinclair for his briefing and, more importantly, for his effective efforts to promote lasting peace …
We welcome this opportunity to extend the gratitude of the United States and its thanks and appreciation to Special Representative Steiner for his leadership of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo over the past year and a half. The discussion today, Mr. Steiner’s report and the comments of colleagu…
I should like to express my appreciation for Mr. Stephen’s report and commend him and his staff for their hard work in Guinea-Bissau, especially in the area of addressing human rights. I also thank Ambassador Kumalo for his report and the representatives of Gambia and Guinea-Bissau for their contrib…
We welcome the Security Council’s renewal for another year of the compromise on the International Criminal Court (ICC) so painstakingly put together in resolution 1422 (2002). Like any compromise, the resolution does not address all of our concerns about the Court. It balances divergent positions an…
I thank Mr. Annabi for his excellent and comprehensive update. I am glad that he reminded us that this is the fourth anniversary of resolution 1244 (1999). His overview shows clearly that a lot has been accomplished in those four years, but clearly also that a lot more remains to be done and that th…
We are very pleased to participate in this discussion today. I believe it is a very timely and useful initiative on your part, Mr. President, to give Security Council members a chance to address their expectations of the upcoming missions and to hear reactions and comments from other members. I thin…
My thanks go to Mr. Morris. That was really a superb presentation on this very, very difficult situation. I want to thank him also for his hard work and his organization’s hard work in trying to deal with it.
Unfortunately, Mr. Morris has outlined the elements of an emergency that force us to deal …
I want to join others in thanking you for joining us today. Your presence here helps us emphasize the importance of the work being done on this important subject. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, the Director- General of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Under-Secreta…
I want to thank the Under-Secretary-General for his excellent briefing and analysis and say that I agree with his conclusions. As the Secretary-General’s report (S/2002/1126) and Mr. Guéhenno’s remarks indicate, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is moving forward on…
Last May we celebrated the rise of the Timorese people from the ashes of conflict and their creation of an independent nation. Today we celebrate that nation’s
accession to its rightful place in the meeting house of mankind, the United Nations.
On behalf of the United States, it gives me great ple…
Let me begin by saying that I agree with many of my colleagues around the table that this has been a year of considerable success. We have not reached all the goals we set for ourselves, but we have accomplished quite a bit. It has also been a year of considerable improvement in the working methods …
I would like to welcome you, Foreign Minister Passy, to the Security Council and to express our appreciation to you for chairing this meeting. I also want to thank Mr. Annabi for his briefing.
I wish to address briefly the three main categories of issues that Mr. Annabi raised, because they are all…
