Once again, the Security Council is meeting to discuss an issue about which almost everything has already been said. Few situations have attracted as much attention, led to so many meetings, mobilized so many actors and generated as much disappointment and frustration as the situation in the Middle …
Each new settlement that is built in the occupied territories is a new obstacle in the road to peace. In that regard, the decision of Council members to meet this morning underscores the need to put an end to the ongoing expansion of illegal settlements. We cannot ignore — and Israel should not igno…
It is an honour for me to participate in this meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Sudan, while just steps away from this chamber, 106 States Members of the United Nations are simultaneously meeting as an assembly of States parties of the International Criminal Court. In effect, j…
I should like at the outset to thank all United Nations Member States, because I believe that today we have seen demonstrations of international solidarity, which are rare. In particular, I should like to thank the brotherly people and Government of the Dominican Republic for the magnanimous gesture…
In considering the resolution on the Peacebuilding Commission (resolution 60/180), I would like to reiterate our position on the legal nature of the decision that we are taking today. For Costa Rica, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Peacebuilding Commission was established on 16 September by Ge…
Allow me first to join previous speakers in expressing our most sincere and heartfelt condolences to the Kingdom of Jordan on the terrorist attacks that took place yesterday in Amman.
In compliance with the obligation contained in Article 24 of the Charter, the Security Council today presents its a…
I should like at the outset to thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr. Philippe Kirsch, for the skilful presentation he just gave us on the Court’s work over the past year. We trust that the presentation of reports by the President of the Court to the General Assembly will…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the International Court of Justice for its report, contained in document A/60/4, and thank the Court’s President, Judge Shi Jiuyong, for his excellent introduction of the report.
Costa Rica fully supports the work of the International Court of Justice as the best m…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate on Security Council reform. Although the issue we are considering is important, we are convinced that no United Nations reform will be complete without a thorough revitalization of the General Assembly, our main deliberative and representative o…
I would like, first of all, to associate myself with the expressions of solidarity and condolence to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See on the sad passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II and to the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Monaco on the profoundly felt loss of His Seren…
This morning’s adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning represents a historic step in the international community’s efforts to promote human rights and to guarantee respect for human dignity in all circumstances. Indeed, in calling upon States to prohibit all forms of human clonin…
Allow me, first of all, to thank the President of the Security Council, the permanent representative of the United Kingdom, for having introduced the report of that body to the General Assembly. We commend the efforts of the Security Council to make
this report a more concise and analytical documen…
My delegation would like to orally amend draft resolution I, entitled “United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean”, contained in document A/58/463.
As the delegation of Cuba has already said, the eighteenth session of the General Confere…
It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of the countries of the Central American Integration System: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic and my own country Costa Rica.
Please allow me first to congratulate you on your election as President of the fifty-…
I am honoured to take the floor on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States to lend our support to the extension Mr. Ruud Lubbers’ term of office as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a period of two more years.
This being the first time that I have taken the floor …
