My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to those who gave briefings today on the situation in Guinea-Bissau.
Events in that country are alarming. They are part of a series of coups d’état or coup attempts that have been carried out in recent months in Africa — in March, in the Central Afri…
My delegation, too, would like to express its satisfaction that the Secretary-General came to today’s meeting of the Security Council. We are grateful to Mr. Guéhenno, Mr. Ngongi and Mr. Solana for their contributions to the Council’s work today. We wish to express particular thanks to Mr. Ngongi. O…
My delegation would like at the outset to join in the condolences that have been expressed with regard to the death of peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea.
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for the presentation of the special report of the Secretary-General and for the additio…
At the outset, my delegation would like to associate itself with those delegations that have expressed their condolences and sympathy to the delegation of the People’s Republic of China with regard to the natural disaster that has struck China.
We are grateful to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs o…
We, too, are grateful to Under-Secretary- General Guéhenno, to Ambassador Nishimura and to Ambassador Braun for the extremely interesting and very technical and useful briefings today. I believe that the material that they have given us will be important to us as we carry out our work in the coming …
We would like first of all to thank the Under- Secretary-General, Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, for their detailed briefings.
The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to be a source of serious concern. After t…
The work of the Security Council in 2002 was highly intensive, particularly in December. There
was a significant increase in the number of Council meetings, both formal and informal consultations. This year the Council adopted more than 100 resolutions and official Presidential Statements. We dispa…
The Russian Federation attaches great significance to the Bougainville Peace Agreement of 30 August 2001, which is a basis for the peace process in that country. We call upon all the parties to undertake timely and full implementation of the tasks set forth in the Agreement to establish autonomy, to…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2002/1223), which provides a detailed account of the work carried out during the reporting period by the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) to implement Security Council resolution 1410 (2002). It also gives an accurat…
My delegation is pleased to see the People’s Republic of China discharging the presidential duties of the Security Council. We are grateful to the delegation of Cameroon, and to the Ambassador of Cameroon for the excellent manner in which he carried out his duties as President in the previous month.…
We are grateful to the High Representative, Lord Ashdown, and to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Jacques Paul Klein, for the detailed information they have given us about the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Russian Federation is of the view that a main prerequisite for…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report on small arms and light weapons, and we also wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Dhanapala for introducing the report.
We have carefully studied the Secretary-General’s report on small arms, as well as the recommendations contained therein. …
We take a positive view of the draft regular annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. It provides useful and detailed information on the activities of the Council in the course of the year. We thank the Secretariat staff for the high level of its professionalism and for complet…
