I would first like to thank Judge Meron, Judge Møse and Prosecutors Del Ponte and Jallow for the very impressive and comprehensive briefing they have given us.
Please allow me to make one remark and to ask two questions. The remark pertains to the broader picture of the juridical institutions that …
Mr. President, thank you for convening this important meeting. At the outset, I would also like to thank Lord Ashdown and Judge Meron, not only for their very interesting and comprehensive reports, but also for what they are doing in the field.
The representative of Italy will later present the vie…
Like other delegations, mine would like to welcome you, Sir, in the presidency of the Security Council and to assure you of its support this month.
I would also like to thank Ambassador Jones Parry for the very effective and elegant way in which he did his job as President of the Council last month…
My delegation would like first of all to thank Assistant Secretary-General
Kalomoh for his very comprehensive report. We also appreciate very much the presence here of His Excellency Mr. Ramos Horta. We listened with great interest to his report and we hope that his assessment — a brighter future a…
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer would like to apologize for the fact that he is unable to attend this meeting as he had planned. This is due to a conflict of engagements, to which the traffic situation in the city has greatly contributed. I will therefore speak on his behalf.
We would like first o…
My delegation is disappointed by the outcome of the voting. This voting sends the wrong signal to the parties and gives rise to the perception of the Security Council as not living up to its responsibilities.
On behalf of my Government, I should like to state that, in abstaining in the voting on th…
First of all, let me thank Mr. Roed-Larsen for his very useful and comprehensive briefing on the latest developments in the Middle East. I would then like to associate myself with the statement to be given later in this debate by the Italian presidency of the European Union.
My Government is deeply…
First, let me thank Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for his
concise and very useful briefing. I should also like to point out that I associate myself with the statement that will be made by the Italian presidency of the European Union at a later stage in this meeting.
The series of violent…
Let me first welcome Ambassador Sinclair and thank him very much for his very informative and complete report; we appreciated it very much. I would also like to thank the representative of Papua New Guinea for his statement. He gave us a very encouraging and positive assessment.
I am very pleased t…
First of all, I welcome the presence of the Secretary-General at this very important meeting. As this is the first time that I address you, Sir, in your new capacity as President of the Council, I would like to congratulate you and assure you that we will support your presidency as far as we can. I …
I have the feeling that everything has already been said, but not yet by everybody.
I would like to join other delegations in commending the work done by the Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy, Mr. James Baker, in preparing this resolution. We welcome the fact that the Security Council has re…
Let me first join other delegations in warmly welcoming Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry, even during this temporary spell of non-permanence. We have been friends and colleagues for a long time, and we have been working together in the context of the European Union. I am also looking forward to worki…
First, Mr. President, I would like to join you and the Chinese Ambassador in
thanking Ambassador Greenstock for his cooperation in the Council and for his personal friendship. We will miss him when he is gone, and we wish him well in his new and very important job.
I wish to welcome His Excellency…
Germany remains fully committed to the fight against terrorism within the broadest possible international coalition.
We fully subscribe to the statement to be made later by the presidency of the European Union, and I will therefore limit my intervention to three specific points.
First of all, I wo…
Allow me, first of all, to welcome you, Madam, to this important meeting and to thank you for presiding over it.
I warmly welcome the presence of the Secretary- General; we are grateful for his important remarks at the beginning of the meeting and, in particular, for his recent comprehensive report…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and his team for their tireless and determined efforts to resolve the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We understand that the new Special Representative, Mr. Swing, has had a good start, and we would like to congratulate him…
Let me thank Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Ramcharan for their reports. We strongly welcome the second public meeting of the Council with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We believe this dialogue between the Office and the Council sh…
As I did not take the floor yesterday, I would like to wish you well, Sir, in your presidency this month and also to thank Ambassador Lavrov and his whole team for the way he conducted the business of our Council last month.
I also want to associate myself with the statement that will later be made…
I think it is most appropriate that Under-Secretary-General Oshima’s last briefing to this Council should be on the issue of protection of civilians in armed conflict. No one in the United Nations system, I think, has done more to put the protection of civilians in armed conflict high on the United …
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Stephen and Ambassador Kumalo for their reports. I must say that these reports paint a very bleak picture of the situation in Guinea-Bissau. The country stands on the brink of collapse. The economic
situation is desolate. Good governance is absent. Freedom of t…
