We too are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his comprehensive briefing, and we also wish to thank you for having called an open meeting on the issue of East Timor, an issue which, by its nature, lends itself well to discussion before the full membership of the United Nations. Apart…
First, allow me to express my delegation’s appreciation both to the members of the Independent Inquiry — Mr. Carlsson, Mr. Han Sung- Joo and General Kupolati — for what is commonly called the Carlsson report, and to the Secretary-General for having taken the initiative to set up this Inquiry.
The o…
Let me begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for having so graciously postponed this meeting until after my return from Africa. I owe this special consideration to my chairmanship of the sanctions Committee established by resolution 661 (1990), but I will not speak in that capacity, for this is a ti…
The Netherlands will vote in favour of the draft resolution before us. It is an important next step in the phased deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). This draft resolution turns MONUC into a genuine observer mission.
The undertaking…
My delegation, like those of France and the United Kingdom, endorses the statement that will be made by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the European Union.
The protection of United Nations, associated and humanitarian personnel is a subject of high priority for the delegation of the Net…
We are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his realistic and hardly reassuring briefing.
The draft resolution we are about to adopt is a very sobering one. It plainly lists the major shortcomings in the implementation of the Lomé Peace Agreement before focusing on the immediate probl…
I associate myself with the words of welcome addressed to you and the words of gratitude addressed to your predecessor.
My delegation is grateful to Mr. Vieira de Mello for his impressive briefing, which supplements the already very informative report of the Secretary-General. We welcome the positi…
We have very little to add to what has been said by delegations that spoke before us. We are concerned at the ongoing violence in Burundi. We warmly welcome the designation of Nelson Mandela as the new Facilitator of the Arusha peace process. We do not consider the involuntary resettlement or regrou…
We too would like to thank Mrs. Ogata for her briefing, which was true to her style in its directness and precision. My delegation greatly appreciates Mrs. Ogata’s virtual inability to express herself in the vague terms we so often hear in this Chamber and her unwillingness to cover unacceptable sit…
We thank you, Mr. President, for calling this open meeting and Mr. Annabi for his briefing.
Circumstances have changed considerably and very much for the better since the last time the Council had an open debate on the subject of East Timor, which was on 11 September 1999. The new situation is also…
First, Mr. President, I would like to join other delegations in thanking you and your collaborators for all you have done to make the adoption of today’s resolution possible.
After almost a year of profound disagreements and arduous negotiations, the Council has at last been able to find sufficient…
I can subscribe to just about everything that Ambassador Holbrooke said, especially his comments that it is not a question of whether we support peacekeeping, but when and how. That is precisely the position of the Netherlands, too.
Just for the record, I would like to add two observations. First, …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Miyet and Ambassador Holbrooke for their statements. I wish to join Ambassador Holbrooke in reserving the right to intervene again later in the debate, in conformity with the interactive format that the British presidency has so fortunately introduced.
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It is good to see the British presidency devote an open Council meeting to Africa. When we planned a similar meeting for our presidency in September we were not at all sure it would be a success. After all, non-permanent members, who get to chair the Security Council once or twice in a generation, a…
The Secretary- General's first report on United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and Under-Secretary-General Miyet's supplementary briefing contain some positive elements but also give cause for deep concern. It is probably a coincidence that Mr. Miyet gave us all the good news in English a…
I am sorry to take the floor again, but I wanted to point out that non- participation in the voting is extremely rare and that few non-permanent members have ever resorted to this extraordinary measure.
Under normal circumstances we, too, would have been glad to support a regular roll-over for a new phase of 180 days. However, we believe that the circumstances are not normal.
The Netherlands was a sponsor of one of the three draft resolutions that were informally submitted after the panel’s exerci…
The Netherlands warmly welcomes the initiative of the Slovenian presidency to devote an open debate to the role of the Security Council in the prevention of armed conflicts. We regard conflict prevention as the core of the duties the Security Council is called upon to carry out on behalf of the Unit…
The Amorim panel issued its report on 30 March, and soon after that my delegation, together with that of the United Kingdom, introduced a draft resolution on this matter. Since then, counter-proposals have been made.
We have been happy to go along with the roll-over for two weeks, but for two weeks…
Mr. President, We join other delegations in thanking you and your delegation for having taken the initiative to convene this important meeting.
We also welcome the New York Declaration, which Members of the Joint Presidency have issued on the occasion of their appearance before the Security Council…
