It gives me great pleasure to participate in this meeting of the General Assembly on agenda item 22, relating to cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations. My delegation attaches great importance to this item, as it is one of the many ways through which the United N…
I would like first of all to express, on behalf of my Government and on my own account, deep sympathy for the families who lost
loved ones in the terrorist attack in Bali last Saturday. We express our solidarity with the Governments of Indonesia and of Australia. We condemn unequivocally that atroc…
Let me first thank Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, for introducing the report of the Secretary-General (S/2002/1053). I would also like to thank your delegation, Mr. President, and the delegation of Colombia for circulating the orientation papers for this mee…
Since this is the first formal meeting under your presidency, let me, first of all, convey my sincere congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption as President of the Security Council for the month of October. Let me also place on record our warm thanks to your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassa…
My delegation welcomes the holding of today’s meeting to discuss the annual report of the Security Council, which will be submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with Article 24, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations. We are grateful to Ambassador Mahbubani, the Permanent Represe…
The Council is meeting today to discuss once again the situation in the Middle East following the escalation of the violence in the past few days. We have seen such violence before, but today, if the current situation is not brought under control, we run the risk of completely compromising the peace…
Let me say first of all how pleased we are to see you, Mr. Minister, preside over the Council’s deliberations today on this very important issue. Let me also thank Mr. Hedi Annabi for his very useful briefing.
It has been more than four years now since the landmark resolution 1244 (1999) was adopte…
Mauritius condemns in the most serious terms the recent attack perpetrated by Israeli forces on civilian targets in Palestine. Mauritius has on various occasions condemned the use of excessive and disproportionate force by Israel on unarmed Palestinians and innocent civilians. Mauritius has equally …
Let me, first of all, thank Under-Secretary-General Kenzo Oshima for his excellent briefing this morning. It has been extremely useful and very comprehensive.
The situation in Angola is at a very crucial stage at this point. After the signing of the peace memorandum, the country is about to start w…
As an African member of the Council, let me first of all express our sincere thanks for the words of congratulations on the launching of the African Union. It is indeed a new beginning for Africa.
My delegation is particularly pleased that a meeting such as this is being conducted before the adopti…
Let me join other colleagues in heartily congratulating the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), Sir Jeremy Greenstock, for the very good work accomplished by the CTC under his able leadership. His dedication to the work of the Committee, his drive to push forward and to realize to the…
Today is a great day in the history of East Timor and in that of the United Nations as we celebrate the independence of East Timor. It is particularly significant that this meeting is taking place today under the presidency of Singapore, a country that in the Council has always shown special interes…
Let me start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his briefing on the situation in East Timor and for introducing the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). We would also like to thank the Secretary-General for the impo…
Over the past few weeks, despite the international community’s appeal, military assaults against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people have continued to intensify. Security Council resolutions 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002) continue unimplemented and ignored. Israel continues to defy the…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this public meeting at such short notice. I should like to acknowledge the presence of the Secretary-General and to thank him for the very good statement he made. My delegation associates itself with that statement and supports it fully.
The situation in the…
Allow me, first of all, to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your delegation on organizing today’s meeting and on giving us the opportunity to comment on the report of the Security Council mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Before going into the substantive issues, I would also like to congratulat…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting today. We are very grateful to Mr. Kenzo Oshima for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Angola. We would also like very warmly to welcome to this Chamber the Vice-Minister for External Relations of Angola and to thank him…
First of all, let me thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important public meeting on West Africa. Allow me also to thank Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Assistant Secretary-General, for his extremely comprehensive and very useful briefing on the situation in West Africa.
The unstable and precarious sit…
I thank you very much, Sir, for convening this meeting to discuss this very important issue in the presence of the general membership. I would like to extend a very warm welcome to the ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and the Special Adviser to the President of Rwanda, as…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for holding this open meeting at such short notice.
Mauritius has supported the Arab Group’s request that the Security Council consider the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine, because we believe that the United Nations, esp…
