My delegation would also like to welcome Senator Biden. We share the views expressed by the representatives of France and the United Kingdom, but we also share what Ambassador Greenstock termed the United States
Congress’ fundamental intentions with regard to United Nations reform. It is precisely …
We join other delegations in thanking the Russian presidency for its initiative to discuss in the Council measures to eliminate international terrorism. We also thank the Legal Counsel, Mr. Hans Corell, for his comprehensive briefing on the significant developments in international law that have occ…
I would like to express my deep appreciation to the Secretary-General for having nominated a national of my country to the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to the Member States for having endorsed that nomination. I am sure that Mr. Lubbers will prove himself a worthy succ…
It is good to see you in the chair again, Mr. President, for the first time since August 1999.
Let me also pay tribute to Ambassador Ouane, who so ably chaired our Council during the difficult millennium month of September.
My delegation’s contribution to this debate is somewhat different from wha…
I join other speakers in thanking you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting, in welcoming Mr. Vieira de Mello and in thanking him for his informative briefing.
I have noted the strong emphasis in his statement on the security situation, especially in West Timor, and if I do not dwell on it exten…
Let me begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General Miyet for his informative briefing.
Five years after Dayton, there is progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the progress is slow and much remains to be done. One field of rather spectacular progress this year has been that of refugee return to mino…
First let me thank the Secretary-General for his report and Under- Secretary-General Miyet for his briefing on the modalities of a possible United Nations role in the implementation of the Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities signed by Ethiopia and Eritrea. I join other delegations in commending yo…
We would like to thank you, Sir, for calling this open meeting on Somalia, Under-Secretary-General Prendergast for his briefing and Ambassador Roble Olhaye for his extensive oral report on the Djibouti peace initiative.
The Netherlands is certainly not surrendering to cynicism with regard to Somali…
We too would like to thank Mr. Vieira de Mello for his informative briefing, but especially also for everything he and his people are doing in East Timor.
Later in the debate the representative of Portugal will make a statement on behalf of the European Union; it goes without saying that my delegat…
We, too, are grateful to Special Envoy Carl Bildt for his comprehensive statement. In response, we will be brief, as the European Union has spoken on our behalf.
It is appropriate that the European Union as such should participate in this debate on the Balkans, for we should once and for all be fin…
My delegation is grateful to Judge Jorda for his briefing, for his report on the operation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and, most of all, for his inspiring leadership as President of that institution.
The negotiations on the establishment of the Internatio…
I, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) and Special Representative Klein for his encouraging briefing. Five years have passed since the signing of the Dayton/Paris Accords, and during that time much has been ac…
My delegation, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General for his quarterly report, and Mr. Kouchner for his inspired briefing.
Most speakers have already pointed out that it will be one year ago tomorrow that this Council adopted resolution 1244 (1999). Two days later, on 12 June 1999, the fir…
In voting for this resolution, my delegation has also expressed its
support for the request the Council is addressing to the Secretary-General to appoint independent experts to prepare a comprehensive report and analysis of the humanitarian situation in Iraq. We do not expect great surprises from t…
I wish at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you and to say how pleased I am to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council for the month of June. I assure you and your delegation of the full cooperation of my delegation. I wish also to thank your
predecessor, Ambassador Wang Yingfan of C…
My delegation feels that the draft resolution on which we are about to vote does not adequately reflect the continued commitment to the settlement plan which during the Council’s consultations was expressed by a large number of delegations, including my own.
It is true that in the fifth preambular …
I am grateful to Mr. Annabi, and I apologize for inflicting such detailed questions on him, knowing full well that he has in fact been briefing us all day long.
Mr. Annabi has now supplied us with further information on the reductions in the military component of the United Nations Transitional Adm…
We, too, would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for a very useful and informative briefing. Before commenting on some of the information we received from him today, I would like once again to express my delegation’s appreciation for all the work that is being done by the United Natio…
My delegation, too, is grateful to Ambassador Holbrooke for his presentation of the mission’s report, and I personally share his enthusiasm about the effective functioning of the mission. It has pointed out by other speakers that his style of leadership was largely responsible for that.
I heard Amb…
We are here to listen to the Secretary-General and to other delegations, especially those that represent African organizations such as the Organization of African Unity or the Economic Community of West African States, so I shall be very brief.
The Secretary-General stated very clearly that Mr. San…
