For the past four weeks, the peoples of Israel and Lebanon have been caught up in a brutal and tragic conflict. It has caused unbearable loss and suffering on both sides. It is time to bring this conflict to an end.
But speeches and resolutions do not themselves end conflicts. Neither do good inten…
Once again, I must agree with my colleague. He is very right: violence indeed breeds violence. The violence emanating from Lebanon against Israel, after Israel totally vacated and withdrew from every inch of Lebanon, is indeed violence. It cannot be justified; there are no more alibis. When the repr…
As this is your last day as President, Sir, may I express to you once again our appreciation for your very able and fair stewardship during the month of July.
We have heard a very emotional, very eloquent and, I am sure, very candid speech by the representative of Lebanon. I would like to repeat so…
I thank the Secretary- General for honouring us with his presence.
This is a horrible, sad and bloody Sunday. This is a day on which we mourn and grieve, together with the people of Lebanon, at the deaths of the innocents and civilians in Kafr Qana. Those people, including women and children, who w…
Mr. President, I wish to thank you for your continued able stewardship of this Council during these difficult days. I would like to welcome the Secretary-General and thank him for gracing this meeting with his important presence. I would also like to thank Mr. Jan Egeland for his very precise and im…
Let me take you back, Mr. President, to a warm summer’s day in Beirut 32 years ago, exactly on a very significant day for you and your people: 14 July 1974. I want to describe the scene to you and to my Lebanese colleague. Cafés and bars bustling with young people, beaches filled with happy holiday-…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your able stewardship of this Council during the difficult month of July. May I also take this opportunity to extend to you and to your people an early but very happy wish for a happy 14 July.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank t…
I believe that, before I made my statement, the representatives of neither Iran nor Syria were supposed to speak. I would just like very, very briefly to express my appreciation — which I hope is shared by members of the Security Council — for the opportunity afforded to all of us to hear lectures a…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership of the Council during the month of May and for convening
this important meeting. We also wish to thank the Chairpersons of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, the Al-Qaida Committee and the 1540 Committee for their concise repor…
Allow me to express to you, Sir, our warmest congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April and to commend your predecessor, Ambassador Mayoral, for his able conduct of this Council last month.
Before I start I would like to mention that I listen…
On behalf of the Government of the State of Israel, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your efforts and stewardship in conducting these very sensitive and complicated deliberations on the establishment of an effective Human Rights Council. I would also like to…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership of the Council during the month of February and for convening this very important meeting. I wish also to thank the Chairpersons of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee and the 15…
Israel did not take part in yesterday’s annual ritual of turning 29 November into a
Palestinian festival. We very much regret the fact that some of our neighbours have hijacked a date that marks a historic decision by this Assembly to which they themselves objected. We feel it is tragic that dwelli…
The State of Israel is proud to lend its support and co-sponsorship to the draft resolution entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Italy, the host country of the 2006 Winter Games.
Athletic com…
At this unique and historic moment, I would like to extend Israel’s special appreciation and thanks to the general membership of the Assembly for adopting this unprecedented resolution and to the original sponsors, Australia, Canada, Russia and the United States. The active support of the European U…
It is an honour for me to address the Assembly, on behalf of the State of Israel, on an item of such importance to my country and my people and to victims and survivors of the Holocaust of all faiths and nationalities across the globe. I feel moved and privileged to present this historic draft resol…
Mr. President, I wish to thank you very much for your condolences, which I know are heartfelt and sincere, as are, I know, the condolences expressed by my colleague from Liechtenstein.
Mr. President, allow me to thank you for your leadership of the Council during this rather busy month of October a…
I just wanted — and I feel pretty confident that I am doing it on behalf of
many in this Hall — to express our appreciation for a lecture on human rights, world terror and nuclear proliferation from one of the world’s greatest experts in that field.
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to congratulate you again on your leadership of the Security Council. I should also like to congratulate Mr. Alvaro de Soto on the assumption of his important and daunting tasks and to commend him for his clear, comprehensive and professional report.
As we sit…
It is indeed fitting that the Assembly is meeting to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The Organization rose out of the devastation of that terrible experience, and its noble mission was crafted as a response to its unspeakable horrors, which shocked the consci…
