Mr. President, let me congratulate you and your delegation for Ireland’s outstanding leadership of the Council during this presidency. It is good to see you here. I want to thank Mr. Vieira de Mello also for his briefing and for his tireless and admirable efforts and those of his team in East Timor.…
The United States is committed to the effort to strengthen the Security Council. Enlarging the Council is a means to that end, not the end in itself. A reformed Council, with Japan and Germany assuming permanent seats, and with an expanded number of rotating seats, would better enable the Council to…
I, too, want to welcome Special Representative Ngongi’s introduction of the Secretary-General’s report, which we also commend. We also welcome the presentation by Foreign Minister She Okitundu and we are glad to see him back here. We hope that we will be able to meet with the Minister’s colleagues f…
I want to thank Special Representative Haekkerup for that not just comprehensive, but even eloquent explanation of where we are in this process, where we need to go and, more importantly, where the people Kosovo need to go in the future.
The upcoming elections are a watershed event and my Governmen…
The United States Government believes that the Government of Sudan has taken substantial steps to meet the specific demands of Security Council resolution 1054 (1996). We note with concern, however, that the suspects wanted in connection with the 1995 assassination attempt on President Mubarak in Ad…
I want to thank the Secretary-General, the members of the Council and you, Mr. President, for their kind words, their support and resolve and their condolences to the American people on this dark day. We appreciate the many expressions of concern and support that we have received from around the wor…
First, on behalf of the United States, I, too, would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session and to pledge my Government’s support for the success of this session.
Obviously, the hearts of all Americans are heavy today. …
I think the presence of the Secretary-General with us today signifies the import of the event that we are here discussing and commemorating. This is truly a rare
example of good news and encouraging news, a cause for quite a bit of satisfaction. We now have democracy serving solidly as a base for m…
The United States is deeply concerned by the situation in the Middle East. We approach the tenth anniversary of the Madrid Conference in October against the backdrop of the most serious confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians in a decade. Palestinians and Israelis have been traumatized by al…
I thank the Foreign Minister of Colombia for coming to New York to join us today and to preside over this open meeting of the Security Council. I congratulate him and his colleagues on Colombia’s assumption of the presidency of the Council. I want also to acknowledge the presence of the Secretary-Ge…
I want to thank the Under-Secretary-General for the briefing. It is good to have an update and to check on the progress being made since our trip to Kosovo last month. Indeed, it is clear that while there is still much work to be done, there is progress being made, and we are gratified to hear that.…
I, too, wish to second the warm comments made by my colleagues around the table about Ambassador Morjane. I will not repeat them, but I do want to pay tribute to the outstanding work of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) under his leadership, whic…
I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General for her introduction of this important report. On the sixth anniversary of Srebrenica, it is right that we pause for a moment to reflect on the important mission of the United Nations and the need for continued and improved efforts to preserve peace…
On behalf of the United States delegation, as host country, I would like to extend my condolences to the Government, the delegation and the people of Bangladesh on the passing of Mr. Humayun Rasheed Choudhury. Mr. Choudhury was widely known as a consummate diplomat and public servant. He served with…
The United States worked hard to adopt a different sort of draft resolution today, one that would have benefited the Iraqi people and the Gulf region. We could have, and the Council should have, done better, and we all know why that was not possible. Our proposal is simple: lift the controls on pure…
On behalf of the United States of America, in its role as host country to the United Nations, I warmly welcome the reappointment of Mr. Kofi Annan as Secretary- General of the United Nations. As members may recall, President Bush heartily endorsed Mr. Annan’s second term as Secretary-General on the …
Ten years after the Iraqi regime invaded, occupied and brutalized Kuwait, it is useful for the Council to remind itself of how we got to where we are now and of what we can do together to change an unsatisfactory situation. On 2 August 1990 and for the six months it took for the United Nations to re…
I will keep my remarks very brief, because I think the report of the Council mission basically says it all. As Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno noted in his comments, the mission sent clear messages to its interlocutors. In my view, and in the view of my authorities, it was very useful. I want to co…
I too want to join in welcoming you, Mr. President, to the Security Council today and for making yourself available for this important meeting. This is a topic of great importance to all members of the United Nations community. I want particularly to thank the Secretary- General and the Deputy Secre…
I want to thank the Special Representative for that exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking briefing, which I think sets out a very interesting context in which to look at the future of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) and of Bosnia and Herzegovina, quite apart fr…
