I am honoured to introduce draft resolution A/58/L.12 on behalf of the African and Latin American member
States of the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic, which are the following: Benin, Brazil, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Demo…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate, which enables non- members of the Security Council to express their views on the continuing deterioration of the situation in the Middle East, which poses great danger to the security of the region.
As the majority of r…
Mr. President, I should like at the outset to congratulate you and sincerely to thank you for having convened this debate.
The rule of law is a system in which the law provides a standard common to all individuals. The rule of law and justice legitimize the actions of Governments, securing dignity,…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Madame President, for having convened this open debate on the priority item of the combat against terrorism and in particular the Al Qaeda organization.
It is particularly appropriate for this meeting to take place under your presidency. Spain has amply demonstrat…
The Argentine Republic associates itself with the statement made by Peru on behalf of the Rio Group. We are grateful for this opportunity to continue the debate on international terrorism, which the foreign ministers of countries members of the Security Council began on 20 January. In Colombia, Indo…
The principal goal of the draft resolution that is to be introduced in due course before the General Assembly, and which my country intends to co-sponsor, will not be solely to conclude today the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage. Rather — and especially — it will be to invite Member States …
In the last year, the situation in the Middle East has continued to deteriorate dramatically. As a result of the spiral of violence, vengeance and reprisal that began in September 2000, almost 2,000 Palestinians and more than 600 Israelis have been killed, and thousands more from both communities in…
At the outset, the delegation of Argentina wishes to express its highest appreciation to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations agencies and other members of the humanitarian community for their work in the humanitarian field under the guidance of the prin…
Bearing in mind the suggested time limit on statements, and notwithstanding the great importance of cooperation between the United Nations and each of the 19 entities we are considering under this agenda item, I shall on this occasion confine my comments to cooperation with the Organization of Ameri…
Allow me at the outset to express my delegation’s appreciation for the fact that the General Assembly is taking up the Declaration regarding a South American zone of peace and cooperation, adopted at Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 27 July 2002.
This Declaration is an annex to the Guayaquil Consensus, by wh…
The Argentine delegation would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (A/57/387) on the strengthening of the United Nations. My country supports reform of the United Nations, because it believes that the Organization has before it extraordinary challenges that it must face effectively.
…
The Argentine Republic listened attentively to the statement just made by the representative of the United Kingdom and wishes to affirm the concepts expressed by our Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade
and Worship in the statement he made this morning in the course of the general deba…
My delegation associates itself with the statement just made by the representative of Chile on behalf of the Rio Group.
The issue of the oceans and law of the sea is of particular importance to our country. Our delegation wishes to underline that the General Assembly resolutions stress the universa…
The Ottawa Convention set forth as an international obligation the demand to eliminate anti-personnel mines, which cause grave harm to civilian populations and whose harmful effects persist for decades, even long after the conflicts that led to their use are resolved.
Our region is among those that…
In matters related to the working methods of the Security Council — particularly on issues related to transparency — Argentina has the honour to have a close working relationship with the delegation of New Zealand, which has informed me that it wishes to be associated with this statement.
Ambassado…
May I first express the satisfaction of the Argentine delegation at the holding of this debate on the prevention of armed conflict. We hope and expect it will be the starting point for joint work by the various organs of this Organization. We should like to express our thanks to the Secretary-Genera…
The Argentine Republic participated in the consensus. We wish nonetheless to state for the record our position on the contents of the fourth preambular paragraph of the resolution we have adopted and of the fourth preambular paragraph of the Protocol annexed to it.
The Argentine Republic reiterates…
I wish again to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the very effective way in which you are guiding the work of the Security Council. I also welcome the presence and the contribution of the Minister for External Relations of Angola, Mr. João Bernardo de Miranda.
I should like to thank Ambassador Ri…
We appreciate the Secretary-General’s report, as well as Mr. Annabi’s briefing. We also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Mr. Goran Svilanovic.
Between 16 November last, when we had Mr. Bernard Kouchner with us, and now there have been some developments…
I am grateful for the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2000/1137) and for the oral briefing by Mr. Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We…
