I would first like to express the appreciation of the Government
of National Unity for the importance that the United Nations and the Security Council attach to the question of peace in the Sudan.
I should also like to take note of the important Security Council mission to the Sudan. We consider i…
Madam President, I am pleased to address you today. The Security Council mission has returned from a very important, significant and historic visit to my country, which allowed the Council the opportunity to understand the reality of the situation in the field in Darfur and in the Sudan in general. …
Permit me at the outset, Mr. President, to convey to you the apologies of your colleague Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin, who owing to time constraints was unable to attend today’s meeting.
I wish, Sir, to express our pleasure at seeing you presiding over the Security Council today, as you represe…
At the outset, my delegation supports the statements made by the representatives of Yemen and South Africa on behalf of the Islamic and African Groups.
My delegation would like to thank you, Sir, and the two co-Chairs, Mr. Arias and Mr. Kumalo, for your efforts to ensure that the informal consultat…
Our thanks go to the Chairmen of the regional groups and to the representative of the host country, as well as to all the friendly countries that have expressed their condolences on the loss of Mr. John Garang.
Once again, I would like to express our condolences to the Saudi people upon the demise …
The will of the Almighty has decreed that our Palestinian hero should leave us. He spoke 30 years ago from this very rostrum and said, “Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand” (A/PV.2282, para. 82). Once again, we would like to express our condolences to the Palestinian people on the death of…
The late President Arafat continued to work to achieve the legitimate aspirations and dreams of the Palestinian people to have an independent Palestinian State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, to spread peace and establish stability, and for it, he sacrificed everything that was precious to hi…
Our fate is to seek refuge yet again in the Council, the house and citadel of legitimacy, the pulpit of the international community where justice must be uniformly applied to all without discrimination or nepotism.
In this, we have been disappointed time and again. In the wake of every heinous crim…
I am delighted, Mr. President, to see you, the representative of a friendly country, presiding over the work of the Council for this month. We would also like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of China, for having guided the work of the Council last month.
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I am pleased to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are also most pleased to thank the representative of France for his outstanding leadership of the Council last month.
The holding of this open meeting shows the extraord…
Allow me at the outset to express our thanks to the Secretary- General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his report on the situation in the Middle East (A/56/470). It is also my pleasure, Madam, to see you presiding over this important meeting.
My delegation attaches the utmost importance to developments in the…
The question of Palestine is the highest priority for us because it represents a real danger not just for the peoples of the region but also for international peace and security.
The absence of a just and lasting solution for the question of Palestine, which is the core and essence of the Middle Ea…
It is our pleasure to thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for
having responded to General Assembly resolutions by issuing these two important reports (A/57/1 and A/57/270 and A/57/270/Corr.1) to set out for Member States the vision, and status of the implementation, of declared commitments.
The int…
Allow me, Mr. President, to commend the manner in which you are conducting the work of the Council for this month. We also wish to commend Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe of Syria for the competent manner in which he accomplished his task during the previous month.
The Security Council meets once again to…
It is my honour to make this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States. First of all, on behalf of the Group, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for responding quickly to its request to convene this urgent meeting to reconsider the grave situation still prevailing in the occupied Pales…
We are meeting here today once again to consider the tragic deterioration of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, due to the refusal by Israel, the occupying Power, to abide by the relevant Security Council resolutions, which call upon it to withdraw from the town of Ramallah and o…
