Barely two weeks ago, during our consideration of the Security Council’s annual report to the General Assembly, 54 delegations — including mine — reiterated yet again the urgent need to expedite the process of Council reform. All 54 speakers highlighted the increasing demands on the Security Council…
My delegation would like at the outset to thank the President of the Security Council for the month of October, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ireland, Mr. Richard Ryan, for his exhaustive presentation of the report of the Security Council, which is submitted to the General Assembly …
First, I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Hans Haekkerup, for his introduction of the Secretary-General’s report.
The organization of the elections to be held on 17 November is, for all the inhabitants of Kosovo, as well as for the international community as a whole, …
My delegation associates itself with the statement to be made by the Group of Arab States by its Chairman for the month, and would like also to make some additional observations in its national capacity.
This session of the General Assembly is considering measures to eliminate international terrori…
I wish at the outset to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his report to the General Assembly on the work of the Organization, document A/56/1. That comprehensive and complete report outlines the challenges facing the United Nations in its quest for peace, security and development. It …
I would like to begin by warmly congratulating you on your election as President of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. I am convinced that under your
guidance the work of this second high-level dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partne…
Allow me first of all, on this tragic day, to express my country’s deep sympathies to the United States, an old friend of Tunisia’s for over 200 years. President Ben Ali has conveyed his condolences to President Bush and has stated Tunisia’s categorical condemnation of these acts.
We extend our com…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this open briefing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today’s meeting, which is taking place at a very crucial stage of the peace process, makes it possible for the members of the Council and for the other…
We supported the draft resolution just adopted, which incorporates a further five-month rollover of the oil-for- food programme. Our support is in line with Tunisia’s consistent position on the question of Iraq, by which we have always affirmed the need to adopt a comprehensive approach taking all a…
Mr. President, we would like to thank you and Ambassador Sergey Lavrov of the Russian Federation for having suggested this public debate, which has provided the Security Council with an opportunity to assess the progress made towards achieving its goals in the Gulf region and the Middle East, and to…
Allow me, Sir, first of all, to congratulate you once again for the manner in which you led the Council mission to
Kosovo and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to follow up on and assess development in the implementation of resolution 1244 (1999).
From the outset, I would like to say that this mi…
I would like to start by thanking Mr. Jacques-Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his brilliant briefing on the United Nations Mission on Bosnia and Herzegovina. This briefing is a timely complement to the Secretary-General’s report on recent developments in Bosnia and H…
I should like first of all to thank Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, our colleague and the Chairman of the Security Council sanctions Committee on Afghanistan, and, through him, Ambassador Haile Menkerios, the Chairman of the Committee of Experts, as well as all of his colleagues, for the report that …
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to Ms.
Safiatou Ba-N’Daw and the other members of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the significant amount of work they have done pursuant t…
Three years ago, the Security Council decided to attach greater importance to the question of the protection of civilians in armed conflict with a view to the maintenance of international and regional peace and security. One presidential statement and two resolutions bear witness to that.
On the gr…
Allow me to add Tunisia’s voice to those that have spoken earlier to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his excellent and instructive briefing on developments in Kosovo. My delegation pays tribute to him and to his team for their efforts to keep …
I join my colleagues in thanking Mr. Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing on developments and progress in East Timor.
Today’s meeting looks to the future of East Timor. The announcement of the date of East Timor’s first democratic elections — 30 Aug…
I wish to thank you for this welcome, Mr. President, that you have extended to me and for having introduced me to the members of the Council. I am grateful to you and to the members of the Council.
As the new Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations I am speaking for the first time…
