I wish at the outset to thank Mr. Demetrius Perricos, Acting Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), for his very illuminating briefing to the Council this morning. We congratulate him on the manner in which he has discharged his functio…
Mr. President, I am pleased to see you among us here today presiding over the Council, and I would like to congratulate you on behalf of the delegation of Qatar for the outstanding performance of your delegation, which is presiding over the Council this month. I wish you every success in carrying ou…
I would like to extend our sincere thanks to Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his important briefing to the Council.
Since February 1999, the Security Council has adopted several resolutions that reflect the international commun…
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening this important meeting. I welcome the participation this afternoon of His Excellency Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq. Allow me also to thank Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Permanent Representative of the Uni…
I would like to thank Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his presence here today and for his comprehensive briefing to the Council this morning.
We agree with the Under-Secretary-General that the situation in both Uganda and Soma…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to you, Mr. President, at the end of your presidency of the Security Council. During the past month, we have had before us topics of the utmost importance to humankind and to the maintenance of international peace and security. We hope that we have wo…
I should like at the outset to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his excellent briefing to the Security Council.
The Council is meeting today at a time when we genuinely hope that its work will be results-oriented and will revive the peace process in the Mid…
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening this important meeting. We welcome the participation of His Excellency Mr. Abdal Mahdi, Vice- President of the Republic of Iraq. Allow me as well to thank Mr. Ashraf Qazi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq a…
We thank you, Sir, for convening this open debate, the first of its kind in the Council since the Peacebuilding Commission started its work. It gives us a timely opportunity to review the Commission’s activities and the best ways to support it.
I also wish to commend and thank Ambassador Ismael Gas…
I would like first to most warmly thank the representative of
Germany and Mr. Javier Solana, the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, as well as Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Gambari, for the briefings they have given us here in the Council this morning.
As we h…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month, as well as for calling this meeting on an important item to debate the basic tasks of the Security Council. I also wish to thank you for your efforts to prepare the draft presidential…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Egeland for his briefing on developments in the humanitarian situation in Darfur and in northern Uganda. We would also like to thank him for his efforts to deal with the humanitarian situation throughout the area. It is regrettable to see the deteriorat…
I am taking the floor in my capacity as Chairman of the Group of Arab States for the current month.
Permit me at the outset, on behalf of the Arab Group, to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this urgent Security Council meeting to consider the repeated Israeli aggressions in the Gaza Strip, i…
At the outset, I welcome Mr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, High Representative of the Secretary-General and European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thank him for his briefing to the Council.
We also appreciate the objective, set by his Office since he assumed his positi…
I would like first to extend our thanks to you, Mr. President, for convening this important periodic meeting which keeps Council members abreast of new developments in the Middle East. I wish also to thank Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, for his presentation to …
At the outset, I would like to associate myself with the statement made by the representative of South Africa on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The importance of this review is to confirm the commitments undertaken by States to implement the Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Develope…
Allow me first and foremost to thank both Mr. Ashraf Qazi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq, and Ambassador John Bolton, Permanent Representative of the United States of America, for their briefings to the Security Council. Allow me also to welcome the presence among us of the…
At the outset, I welcome Mr. Joachim Rűcker, the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo. I wish him every success in the discharge of his responsibilities. I thank him for his preparation of the technical assessment of progress in implementation of the standards for Kosovo, a…
My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for his report on Darfur (S/2006/591 and S/2006/591/Add.1). The period covered by the report has seen significant developments — some of them positive — that should be taken into account by the Security Council. These include, in particular, the Darfur Peac…
The delegation of Qatar would like to express its appreciation to you, Mr. President, on this last day of your presidency of the Security Council for this month. The Council has been seized with questions of extreme importance to humankind, including those relating to the maintenance of internationa…
