At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Abou Moussa for his valuable statement and for his efforts in leading the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). I would also like to thank Ambassador Téte António and Mr. Sylvain-Goma for their briefings.
We have had the pleasure of hear…
Allow me to thank the Chairmen of the three Committees, the Permanent Representatives of India, Germany and South Africa, for their comprehensive briefings and ongoing efforts with all members of the Security Council to promote international counter-terrorism cooperation. I would like to make the fo…
I would first like to thank His Excellency the President of Portugal for presiding over this meeting. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Spoerri, Ms. Bragg and Ms. Pillay for their respective briefings.
In modern conflicts, all parties in the opposing camp are seen as the enemy. …
First of all, I would like to thank you, Madame President, for having convened this meeting. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his important briefing, as well as Mr. Touré and Mrs. Ukonga for their statements.
We are seriously concerned about the increasing number of acts of pira…
We wish at the outset to emphasize the importance of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force’s operations, and to pay tribute to the sacrifices it has made. Today Lebanon joined the consensus in adopting resolution 1994 (2011). We would have preferred that it be technical in nature, as had a…
I would like to thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for his briefing and for his efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking and transnational crime. As noted in the World Development Report 2011, drugs connect some of the wealthiest and poorest areas …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Muburi-Muita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing. We welcome his appointment and his efforts as Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union.
The relationship between the United Nations and the African Union has devel…
Lebanon reaffirms that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is based on balance between the three pillars of disarmament, non-proliferation and the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. For Lebanon and all Arab countries, that balance is the principal avenue for meeting the …
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his efforts and his briefing. Allow me also to thank Ambassador Tanin for his statement.
Let me express once again our sadness at the loss of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the special …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier,
Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his comprehensive briefing. I also welcome Mr. Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and thank him for his statement. I also thank Mrs. Çitaku for her presentation.
Allow me t…
At the outset, I wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Radmanović for his statement. We also thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his comprehensive briefing. We commend his efforts to promote the political process under the Dayton Peace Agreement.
We support …
I wish to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing, as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Pillay, for her perceptive remarks and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Holmes, for his insightful co…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their briefings. Lebanon highly appreciates the efforts of the two international Tribunals to achieve t…
At the outset I welcome His Excellency Mr. Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti, and thank him for his statement. I thank Mr. Edmond Mulet for his message of hope. Allow me to make the following comments.
My delegation again expresses its solidarity with the Haitian people following the huma…
I would like to begin by thanking the Security Council for
having adopted resolution 1644 (2005) unanimously. The adoption by the Council of this resolution is proof of the Council’s commitment to helping Lebanon in the very difficult circumstances in which our country finds itself. This is in acco…
First of all, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for having invited us to participate in this meeting. We express our gratitude for your efforts and those of the
Secretary-General, in following recent developments in the situation in my country.
I would also like to thank the United Nations …
First, I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to the Secretary-General and to the Committee on the
Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for the two reports they have submitted to us under the agenda item, and for their efforts to achieve the inalienable rights of…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his two reports on the situation in the Middle East (A/60/258 and A/60/539) and for his efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict arising from the occupation of Arab territories.
Israel has been occupying the Pale…
Today the General Assembly resumes its consideration of the dialogue among civilizations so as to evaluate the implementation of the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations, adopted four years ago. Our discussion this year also coincides with the mid-term global review of the International De…
I wish on behalf of the Group of Arab States to extend our heartfelt condolences to the people and the Government of Saudi Arabia on the passing of King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud; to the people and the Government of the Sudan on the passing of Mr. John Garang, First Vice-President; and to the peop…
