I thank you very much, Mr. President, for your words. To you and to all my colleagues and friends around this table go my most sincere thanks for the friendship and the cooperation that have been offered me. Thanks to all the members of the Council, my experience in the Security Council has been ver…
I wish to thank Under- Secretary-General Pascoe for his comprehensive briefing and welcome the presence with us of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine. I wish to pay tribute to the Permanent Representative of Israel, Ambassador Gillerman, who is sitting in the Council for the last time in hi…
I thank Mr. Honwana for his briefing. I join others in extending a very warm welcome to Prime Minister Dileita and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Djibouti. We strongly appreciate that they have come from Djibouti to give us first-hand accounts. I wish to thank Prime Minister Dileita and the …
I warmly welcome Special Envoys Jan Eliasson and Salim Ahmed Salim back to New York, and I thank them for the very lucid briefings, as well as for their tireless efforts to achieve peace in Darfur. In fact, what we have seen today is a very disturbing and gloomy picture — indeed, the word “gloomy” w…
Let me first express our warmest welcome to President Tadić and President Sejdiu and thank them for their statements.
I would also like to extend a warm welcome to the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, to whom goes our deepest and most sincere appreciation for his efforts and good offices with the pa…
I would like first of all to warmly welcome His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, and to thank him for his presence here today and for what he has told us. He has, indeed, offered us a very clear picture of where we stand today. The big picture is before us and…
First of all, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Mr. Bruno Stagno Ugarte. This is, for many of us, an opportunity to welcome Mr. Ugarte back to the Council for a day. As Permanent Representative of Costa Rica, Bruno Stagno left a very clear footprint th…
As this is the first time that I am taking the floor in this Chamber under your presidency, Sir, I want to express my most sincere and warm congratulations to you on your assumption of the presidency for this month. I am sure it will be very successful, and you can count on our full support.
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I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate and once again bringing to our attention an issue that is and must remain, as the Secretary-General said to us last November in vibrant and powerful words, “an absolute priority” (S/PV.5781, p. 2) for the Security Council and for Member States.
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Through you, Sir, may I offer a very sincere welcome and express my strong appreciation to Mr. Miliband for his presence here. I must say that his presence here is intended to flag the fact that today is not business as usual. This is a very special debate, and we are grateful to the United Kingdom …
First of all, let me welcome the High Representative, Ambassador Lajčák, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Špirić. Let me also join others in thanking the High Representative for his very clear and focused report on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a…
I join others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Pascoe and Ambassador Khalilzad for their very clear, informative and focused briefings. We welcome Ambassador Al Bayati. I think his presence is very important to all of us. I wish to express our equally strong appreciation for the latest report of …
At the outset, I also wish to express my very sincere appreciation for the presence here of the Secretary-General and for his
thoughts and assessments. I think that it is a very important sign of the commitment of the United Nations as part of the Quartet. I also thank Under- Secretary-General Pasc…
I wish to briefly take the floor in order to thank all delegations for their very constructive, flexible and strong support during the consultations on this resolution, as well as to express our full satisfaction with the outcome. Once again, the Council is rallying strongly and united behind one of…
I join others in extending a very warm welcome to Mr. Smith, the Executive Director of Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), and in expressing our very strong appreciation for his briefing, which was very comprehensive, crystal clear and quite focused. His statement, together wit…
I wish, first of all, to warmly thank Mr. Guéhenno for his clear and comprehensive briefing on the Secretary-General’s report on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2008/159). I also wish to acknowledge the participation and the presence in the Chamber of the new Special Representative of the Secretary-…
Allow me to join previous speakers in thanking Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his very exhaustive briefing and its clear-cut language, which once again gives us a clear picture of the situation on the ground and of where we stand on the political track, the way forward and the conditionalities. …
A very warm welcome goes to Minister Nqakula for his very substantive briefing and for the truly outstanding contribution that, as Facilitator, he is making to the process. I also welcome among us the Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for Burundi and the Permanent Representative of B…
Allow me to join others in thanking Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and Under- Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for their very lucid, focused and clear briefings and, more generally, for the truly outstanding job that they are doing. It is a great pleasure to see Mr. Eliasson here and to observe how…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate and for again drawing our attention to a central issue that, as the Permanent Representative of South Africa has said, is an absolute priority.
Italy fully associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the …
