I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the two previous speakers in thanking Ambassador Sinclair very much
for his careful account of the situation, welcoming the details that the Ambassador of Papua New Guinea has offered us, congratulating the Peace Monitoring Group on their role an…
Our thanks to Mr. Sharma, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, and his team for all their work.
Timor-Leste’s international environment is important to its future, and the United Kingdom encourages Indonesia and Timor-Leste to continue working together towards agreement on border delin…
As we all deepen our understanding of what is required to deliver security at all stages, from conflict prevention through peacekeeping to reconstruction and peace-building, not least in the face of new emerging threats including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and international ter…
I would like first of all the thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his briefing and to express gratitude to the Secretary-General for the report on which it was based. We think that it is right for the Secretariat to sound a warning bell, as Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno put it, when it jud…
We thank Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing, which made clear, first, that
the parties are continuing down the military path and, secondly, that there are severe human rights abuses associated with that. We are also most grateful to Mr. Vieira de Mello for his briefing, which provided the Council with u…
Like my French colleague, I welcome the fact that the Secretary-General was able to be here at the start of this meeting, and I thank him for his report. I am grateful to Michael Steiner for a clear and useful presentation, and I, too, associate my delegation with the statement of the European Union…
I would like to begin by expressing my delegation’s thanks to the Secretary-General and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for producing the report (S/2002/1300) we are discussing today. We
know that OCHA has worked hard to ensure a more systematic presentation of the is…
May I, at this first meeting, briefly pay a warm tribute to the outgoing presidency of the Council and warmly welcome you, Sir, to the presidency. My delegation looks forward to working closely with yours.
I should like particularly to congratulate you on convening this afternoon’s meeting. We find…
I thank Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing. The United Kingdom supports the statement to be made by Denmark on behalf of the European Union; I have only a few comments to add in my national capacity. We believe that the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the other pillars…
I thank the High Representative and Special Representative Klein
for their briefings. We congratulate them on what they have achieved both individually and, as the High Representative pointed out, jointly. We would also like to take this opportunity to applaud the achievements of the United Nations…
