Mr. President, the Netherlands joins you and other members of the Council in welcoming Ms. Del Ponte and thanking her for her informative briefing. It really goes without saying that we support her, as we strongly support both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Int…
The Netherlands welcomes the People’s Consultative Assembly’s decision to revoke its earlier decree incorporating East Timor into Indonesia. We join other delegations in expressing our admiration for the sense of responsibility and realism that the People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia has dis…
The Netherlands has noted with great concern that the most recent “six plus two” meeting in Tashkent has not led to a resumption of the inter-Afghan dialogue. It is disconcerting that, even as the Tashkent talks were taking place, the Taliban were already preparing for another major offensive.
In o…
I join other speakers, Sir, in congratulating you and the other members of your delegation on Namibia’s very effective presidency, two thirds of which have already passed in the seclusion of our consultations room, but which has now entered its visible stage. I understand that for a large part of th…
It is a great pleasure to see you, Sir, the Foreign Minister of Malaysia, in the Chair during this important meeting.
We commend the Malaysian delegation for not having allowed itself to be deterred by this objection. Excessive fear of duplication stands in the way of the development of an integrat…
The Netherlands has voted for this resolution with a sense of relief. This does not stem from a feeling that we are concluding a military operation we should not have been engaged in. We sincerely hope that the few delegations which have maintained that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) …
I would like to comment briefly on the statement of the speaker before me.
The present conflict will one day come to an end, but if Serbia wants to be part of Europe it will at last have to start realizing why it has been subjected to NATO air strikes. One day the Serbian people will have to unders…
As the representative of a country that participates in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, I join the delegation of the United States in expressing our deep regret about the incident involving the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, likewis…
Just over five months ago, the adoption of Security Council resolution 1203 (1998) was greeted with relief in the Netherlands, because it was felt that with all the pressure applied on Belgrade in that resolution, it should at last be possible to make President Milosevic see reason and accept a peac…
We have participated in and assumed responsibility for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) decision because there was no other solution. As for the Netherlands, this decision was not taken lightly; it was taken with conviction. Responsibility for the NATO action lies squarely with Presiden…
The Netherlands is deeply concerned about the further deterioration of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We therefore welcome the opportunity to address this question in an open debate of the Security Council. It goes without saying that we associate ourselves entirely with the …
I join previous speakers, as well as yourself, Mr. President, in expressing my country’s sadness at the passing of His Highness Shaikh Isa, Amir of Bahrain.
The Netherlands will vote in favour of the draft resolution on Sierra Leone, which enables the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone…
Like speakers before me, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, and your delegation for organizing this briefing on a very important, specific aspect of the concept of human security, to which you are so personally committed. We would also like to thank the three briefers, who have provided us …
We, too, are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Vieira de Mello for his informative and stimulating briefing.
Having spent three weeks on the Security Council this time round, we are struck by the dominant role that humanitarian issues play on the Council’s agenda. Almost every subject discussed i…
