Madam President, my delegation appreciates your prompt response in convening this meeting of the Security Council on an important and delicate issue that has been on the Council’s agenda for decades, without any real enthusiasm ever having been shown to resolve it.
The Security Council is meeting t…
The challenge of stopping the AIDS pandemic is a national and international one. This scourge not only kills people but places a heavy burden on the shoulders of the world — a burden that in future will be even greater, with a larger number of countries strongly affected. It is difficult to foresee …
Thank you, Mr. President, for having given me this opportunity to address the Council regarding the situation in the Middle East. I would like to welcome the Secretary-General, who is present at this meeting. I would also like to welcome the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Mr. Fouad Siniora, who has just…
My delegation would like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that your diplomatic expertise and political knowledge will galvanize the work of the Council and prompt it to assume its role in the maintenance of inter…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. We had hoped that the Security Council would give the opportunity to all delegations that wished to express their opinion to it on the tragic situation in this …
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, which is taking place following a series of intensive meetings and deliberations to discuss the best way to establish an important United Nations mechanism, namely, the Human Rights Council.
My delegation associates itself with …
Permit me at the outset to thank the Secretary- General for the reports before us today.
My delegation associates itself with the statement by the Permanent Representative of Jamaica on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The Syrian Arab Republic believes that the efforts to achieve development i…
I regret to have to take the floor once again, but I should like to make two points.
First, the representative of Israel referred to the presence of Palestinian headquarters in Damascus. Those Palestinians present in Syria are refugees, expelled by Israel from their homeland by force, who have foun…
I am sorry for taking the floor at this late hour, but I would like to reply to the statement made by the representative of Israel in his attempt to pull the wool over our eyes and once again blot out facts before this Assembly. Today, we are discussing the question of children in armed conflict. It…
At the outset, my delegation would like to congratulate you, Sir, on presiding over the Security Council this month. We also wish to thank the Permanent Representative of the Philippines and his mission staff for their successful leadership of the Council last month.
My delegation also takes this o…
I would like, at the outset, to express my pleasure to see you assuming the presidency of this meeting of the Security Council, because of the importance of the issue under consideration today and its regional and international implications. We would like to extend our thanks to Mr. Guéhenno for his…
We would like to thank Mr. Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his comprehensive briefing on the latest developments in Bougainville.
The Bougainville Peace Agreement aims at strengthening the foundations of a society enjoying genuine peace and the restoration of civ…
My delegation wants to welcome Mr. Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of South Africa. We thank him for the useful information he has given us in his statement. We also would like to extend our welcome to Mr. Rosenthal, President of the Economic and Social Council, and we thank him for his statement.
My …
We appreciate the holding of this meeting devoted to Central Africa and we highly appreciate the efforts of Mr. Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, who presided over the United Nations assessment mission in Central Africa. We are grateful for the detailed report he has presen…
My delegation joins you, Mr. President, in welcoming Mr. Harri Holkeri, who is with us today. We congratulate him on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. We also wish to thank him for his comprehen…
My delegation thanks Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), for his comprehensive and detailed briefing. We also thank the Secretary-General for his report on UNMISET.
My delegation is pleased w…
Mr. President, we thank you for organizing this important meeting. We also welcome Lord Ashdown, the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we thank him for the detailed and comprehensive briefing that he gave us regarding the situation in Bosnia…
My delegation thanks Mr. Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his detailed briefing on the latest developments in Guinea-Bissau. We also welcome the Foreign Minister of Timor-Leste, Special Envoy of the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries. We thank him for his deta…
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his detailed and useful briefing on the most recent developments in the situation in Kosovo. My delegation believes that, despite the relative stability of the situation in Kosovo, the sec…
We congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We should also like to thank the Permanent Representative of China and his team for their excellent work last month. In addition, we welcome Mr. James Morris, Executive Director of the World Food P…
