Like others, let me thank you, Mr. President, for giving up your Christmas with your family.
I am delighted tonight to speak on behalf of the CANZ group of countries — Canada, Australia and New Zealand — which obviously welcomes the consensus that has been achieved. In the interests of brevity, how…
I am honoured, of course, once again to speak for Canada and New Zealand, as well as my own country, Australia.
Let me say immediately, Sir, how much our countries warmly welcome the adoption of resolution 60/180 this morning, establishing the modalities of the Peacebuilding Commission. Let me also…
I should like to begin by suggesting that no one take too much notice of the draft statement that has been circulated in my name. I saw it only a few minutes ago, and it is so manifestly unsatisfactory that I shall be extemporizing for much of the time.
Apart from anything else, the draft that memb…
I know we must be brief and thus must dispense with the courtesies, but it would be very wrong of me not to congratulate Denmark on its outstanding handling of the Council’s work this month. It is typical of the wonderful work which my friend and colleague, Ambassador Løj, does here.
As the current…
I learned a long time ago that it was a very dangerous thing to come between Security Council members and their lunch, so I will be very brief.
This meeting gives us a valuable opportunity to highlight the importance of the three Committees operating in a coordinated manner, given the interconnecte…
At the outset, let me affirm our full support for the statement delivered by my friend the representative of Samoa on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum.
We are distributing to delegations the full text of our remarks, which is significantly longer than the text that I will deliver in the interest…
Mr. President, let me also immediately associate ourselves with the expressions of condolences to the Government and people of Bangladesh and to the families of the Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed while serving with the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Th…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of Canada and New Zealand, as well as Australia.
First, we want to thank the Secretary-General for his useful reports under these items. They will be a significant resource for delegations to draw on, along
with other inputs, over the next year in the lea…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this open meeting of the Security Council on Timor-Leste, a country that, like my colleague from Indonesia, I can describe as a neighbour, a close partner and a friend. We are proud of what we have done to assist Timor-Leste in building a…
Mr. President, I wish to thank you for having convened this meeting. I wish also to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno, High Commissioner Louise Arbour and Executive Director Thoraya Obaid for their presentations. I should like to say to Ms. Arbour that Australia is delighted to have her here in…
It is my privilege to speak on behalf of Canada, New Zealand and Australia in this joint debate on agenda item 52, “Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly”, and agenda item 54, “Strengthening of the United Nations system”. In that
context, I would like on behalf of Canada, New Zealand a…
Sir, let me begin by congratulating you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, and let me
say how honoured I am to be one of your Vice- Presidents.
I want to say also how delighted Australia is to welcome Iraq back to the General Assembly.
We, the nation…
I would like to thank you very much, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting. I, like others, would like to begin by thanking our friend and colleague, Heraldo Muñoz, for his very comprehensive briefing this morning. As always, it was a typically professional effort from him and his colleagu…
I appreciate the fact that these days we try to limit courtesies, as a way of making the Security Council more efficient. But it would be wrong of me on this first occasion that I am speaking before the Council since your arrival, Sir, not to warmly welcome you to New York and to congratulate you on…
You will know, Sir, what a personal pleasure it is always for me to address the Council during your presidency.
I want to begin like others, however, by associating Australia with the expressions of condolences extended to our friends in the Russian Federation following the appalling attack in Groz…
I am honoured to be addressing the Assembly today and I am particularly glad, I have to say, to have the occasion to do so on the important topic of global road safety. I will be brief, as I know we are trying to get through a number of speakers before lunch. These few comments by Australia are in a…
Forgive me, Mr. President, if I dispense with courtesies, but, unlike
Ambassador Mahbubani, I need all five minutes of my allotted time. So let me get straight to the substance.
We in Australia are proud of what we have done to assist Timor-Leste in building a stable and sustainable democracy. No …
I ordinarily dispense with courtesies — I am an Australian, after all — but this morning, I want particularly to thank you, Sir, for this meeting and to commend you on your excellent stewardship of the Council this month, and indeed for an outstanding term over the past two years. In addition, I wan…
I have the honour to address the Assembly on behalf of Canada, New Zealand and Australia. I also wish to associate my delegation with the statement that the Foreign Minister of Fiji will deliver on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum.
Canada, New Zealand and Australia are convinced that the need fo…
Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to address the Council today. Ordinarily, I try not to detain the Council, when I speak here, for more than a few minutes, knowing the great pressures on the Council’s time. But I hope today you will indulge me with a few minutes more on an issue which, …
