I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The countries of central and eastern Europe associated with European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — and the associated countries, Cyprus and Malta, align t…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. We would also like to thank Mr. Annabi for
having presented us, as always, a fully detailed and exact description of the situation in East Timor.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The Central and Easter…
Among the issues in the precise and detailed overview submitted to us by Mr. Annabi, it is obviously the upcoming holding of municipal elections that commands our attention. A major milestone was crossed last week with the announcement of the date for the balloting. We welcome the decision made by t…
I have the honour today to speak on behalf of the European Union. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — and the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turkey …
Thank you, Sir, for having organized this debate and thank you also for having honoured us by your presence.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, La…
I wish, at the outset, to thank you, Madam President, because this meeting devoted to Kosovo is taking place in a setting that makes it possible for States not members of the Council to hear firsthand, at an open meeting, information furnished by the Secretariat. It is our wish that this type of fre…
I would like to thank you, Madam President, for your very generous words addressed to me. I would like to express the warmest and most confident wishes for the complete success of our work under your elegant and able guidance.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The Central …
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom has voiced my feelings very accurately. Our mission worked as a team without any differences of view among our seven members. That, to a large extent, is the result of the
personal efforts made by Ambassador Holbrooke, whom I wish to thank here.
The Security Co…
It is very good that the Security Council has held this open meeting, upon the request of the African Group, to express strongly the feeling and the solidarity of the entire international community vis-à-vis the crisis in Sierra Leone. I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his analysis of …
I, too, would like to thank Ambassador Chowdhury for
At the outset, I would like to raise a procedural point that is of great importance to France. As with the 9 May meeting on Bosnia and Herzegovina, today's meeting is also being held without either the European Union States that are not members o…
I would first like to thank the Secretary-General for his excellent introduction to our debate and to welcome the presence among us of Ms. Fréchette.
I would also like to welcome the presence at the Council table of Mr. Jakob Kellenberger, the new President of the International Committee of the Red…
At the outset, I should like warmly to welcome to the Council table the Minister for External Relations of Angola, Mr. Miranda.
The draft resolution that we will be adopting today reaffirms the Security Council’s determination to ensure effective implementation of the sanctions against UNITA. Today…
I wish first of all to thank Mr. Kieran Prendergast for his very precise and specific statement; it constituted the best introduction to our discussion.
It is good that the issue of sanctions is today the subject of public debate in the Security Council. Our debate is an extension of the recommenda…
I too wish to welcome Mr. Carlsson and to thank him for the report before the Council today, which describes the horror of the genocide committed between April and July 1994:
“Rwandans killed Rwandans, brutally decimating the Tutsi population of the country, but also targetting moderate Hutus. Appa…
I should like to join you, Mr. President, in paying tribute to former President Bourguiba of Tunisia. By attending the funeral tomorrow, President Chirac will express the sentiments and solidarity of all of the people of France, who are united with the people of Tunisia in their grief.
I, too, shou…
I wish to join my colleagues in thanking the Secretariat, in particular Mr. Prendergast, for the introduction of the report of the Secretary-General on developments in Guinea-Bissau.
France appreciates the energetic activities in that country of the Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea…
I should like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his outstanding introduction to our debate today. I wish also to pay tribute to the very effective and dedicated efforts of all those who are working in difficult conditions in Iraq to implement the humanitarian programme.
In examining th…
Allow me first to thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative in organizing the resumption of a debate on this item that the Security Council began in July 1999 on the initiative of Malaysia. Today we can learn from the new light shed on this subject by the recent report of the Secretary-General. …
I should like first of all to welcome this opportunity today for some States directly concerned by the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina to express their views. I should like to thank Mr. Annabi for the information that he provided.
The United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) an…
First of all, I should like to say, Sir, how deeply touched I was by your words of welcome. I sincerely thank you. It is a pleasure for me to join the United Nations family again, for the third time in my career, and it is an honour for me to sit beside ambassadors who, on a daily basis, contribute …
