Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of July, and to express our appreciation to your predecessor in that position. I would also like to warmly welcome the Russian chairmanship of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and,…
Mr. President, at the outset I would like to congratulate you on the assumption of the presidency and express our appreciation for your wise stewardship of the Council’s deliberations.
The past year has been characterized, among other things, by two major developments in the field of non-proliferat…
Israel would like to express its firm opposition to the latest attempt by the Palestinians to further their political campaign against Israel. In past years, the frequent and annual abuse of the credentials-approval procedure by the Palestinians has been roundly rejected by an overwhelming number of…
Israel shares the concern of the international community over the deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the Middle East region. Violence and terrorism, by their very nature, entail hardship for the civilian population. Israeli and Palestinian civilians have both endured tremendous pain and …
The Government of Israel is proud to lend its support to the draft resolution entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal”, and would like also to take this opportunity to congratulate Greece, the host country of the 2004 Olympic Games.
Israel is of the view t…
I would like to devote my statement to item 40 (e), entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian people”. Unfortunately, the issue addressed by this item was highly misrepresented during this debate.
Israel supports efforts made by the donor and international communities to alleviate the hardships of th…
I regret that I have to exercise my right to a second intervention to reply to the Syrian representative, who today chose to turn this important debate on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit and the report of the Secretary- General into a series of attacks against the State of Isra…
I regret to take the floor in exercising this right of reply to comments by certain delegations that have abused the debate in the Assembly to further their narrow political agenda. Representatives who express such concern when Israel exercises counter-terrorism measures in an act of self- defence, …
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Madame, and the Council, for the important steps that you have taken, together with the Monitoring Group, in assisting and monitoring State implementation of Security Council resolution 1267 (1999) and subsequent relevant resolutions. In taking that decisi…
Israel has joined the consensus position on this resolution in light of the importance attached to the principle of conflict prevention and the resolution of disputes by peaceful means. Israel shares the belief that there is no better way to protect our children from the wars of tomorrow than by pre…
