Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. My delegation is among those that believe that it should — and, indeed, will — be the last of this general nature. The feeling of déjà vu is already too strong. The only assured plus of repeating this debate over and over is that it may leave us …
This is the first time that my delegation has taken the floor at the sixty-second session of the General Assembly, and it is an honour and a pleasure to congratulate you, Sir, a representative from our region, on your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. I am confident t…
Romania attaches particular importance to the biennial adoption of a General Assembly resolution on multilingualism. Linguistic diversity is an integral and essential part of cultural diversity and a sine qua non for the development of humanity in its diverse forms and manifestations. Indeed, multil…
I should first like to congratulate the Secretary-General for having presented us, as usual, a through report on cooperation
between the United Nations and regional organizations, an area of topical interest to Romania. I shall dwell a bit on the item dealing with cooperation between the United Nat…
I wish to express my deep appreciation to President Eliasson for his inspired and persistent efforts to schedule this plenary debate before the summer break. He was right to do so, as Security Council reform is part and parcel of the comprehensive vision for change set out by our leaders at the Unit…
I should like to make only a few nationally specific comments, since the Federal Minister of Austria, speaking on behalf of the European Union, also spoke for Romania.
First, I have the sad duty to pay tribute to the memory of someone who could have continued to contribute immensely to the common s…
Let me thank you, Sir, and the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Daudi Mwakawago, for his eloquent presentation a few minutes ago.
Of course, I wish to commend the United Nations mission teams in Sierra Leone for their dedication and resilience over the past six years in advanci…
It is not without a certain sense of sorrow that I proceed with the presentation of the discharge reports as outgoing Chairman of the 1518 and 1540 Committees of the Security Council, all the more so since for once, this afternoon, the action does not really seem to be in this Council.
Both Committ…
I am pleased to begin by welcoming to this Chamber the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), as well as their Chief Prosecutors, and by thanking them for their very thorough presentations on the e…
I should like to start by commending your presidency, Sir, for convening this open debate and for its unflagging dedication to the topic at hand.
Allow me to point out that Romania associates itself with the statement soon to be made by you on behalf of the European Union.
In my turn, I would cert…
First of all, I wish to associate myself fully with the statement made by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in his capacity as President of the European Union (EU). I also wish to thank Lord Ashdown for his very interesting briefing, which serves to supplement a very instructive and comprehensive…
My delegation, too, commends Chairman Volcker and his team for the impressive work carried out in record time to review the management of the oil-for-food programme, the most complex humanitarian programme ever entrusted to and managed by the United Nations.
In April 2004, the Council proceeded to …
I wish first to welcome Japan’s initiative to convene this timely debate on the situation in Afghanistan. More generally, Japan is to be congratulated on its significant contribution to the overall international efforts aimed at establishing lasting peace in Afghanistan, and in particular on its not…
Allow me to say first that, as an acceding country to the European Union, Romania aligns itself with the statement to be made shortly on behalf of the Union by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom. My remarks will therefore be brief.
Before anything else, I wish to join other speakers…
I should like now to address the Council in my national capacity.
First, Romania fully supports the European Union statement, to be delivered later by our colleague, Sir Emyr Jones Parry. In addition, I wish to make the following specific brief comments.
Romania welcomes the emerging practice wher…
First, it is my pleasure to welcome you, Sir, and to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month. I also take this opportunity to thank Ambassador De La Sablière and his team for their outstanding performance in steering the proceedings of the …
I thank you, Mr. President, for arranging this most welcome exchange between members of the Security Council and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme. I would like to join other members of the Council in thanking the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Needs in Sout…
Romania associates itself with the statement delivered earlier on behalf of the European Union. I shall therefore make only a few additional comments while remaining within the proposed time limit.
The maintenance of world peace is, to a considerable extent, predicated upon solidarity and the rule …
I should like to begin by joining others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Jan
Egeland for his excellent and very to-the-point briefing on the topic at hand.
Romania associates itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Un…
I, too, wish to begin by extending a warm welcome to Mr. Didace Kiganahe, Minister of Justice of Burundi, and by thanking him for his very enlightening statement. His participation in today’s meeting gives us an opportunity to convey to him personally and to the
authorities and the people of Burund…
