France welcomes the unanimous adoption of the resolution. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) makes an indispensable contribution to stability and security in the region. The persistence of violent incidents and violations along the length of the Blue Line underlines the importance …
I would like to thank the Chairman of the Committee for his detailed and extremely interesting briefing. I would like to make two sets of remarks.
First of all, allow me to pay tribute to the remarkable way in which Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz and his assistants have steered the work of the Security C…
I would like at the outset to express my gratitude for the very
comprehensive statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General. I would also like to thank the representative of Serbia and Montenegro.
I would like to associate myself with the statement to be made later by the repres…
My delegation too warmly thanks the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their briefings today on the implementation of their completion strategies and, more generally, for their endea…
This morning the President of the French Republic paid tribute to President Arafat. He extended his condolences, on behalf of the French people and Government, to the family and associates of Yasser Arafat, and I reiterate them here. We send a message of friendship and solidarity to the Palestinian …
Indeed many speakers have referred to the Minsk Group and I think it is quite legitimate and desirable from the point of view of the members of this Assembly that the position of the Chairs of the Minsk Group be stated, and so I am speaking on behalf of them, that is, on behalf of the Russian Federa…
I wish to thank the President for having convened today’s meeting on a topic of great concern to the international community. I also wish to express my appreciation to Ambassador Muñoz for his very clear and precise briefing.
I would like to associate myself in advance with the statement to be made…
Mr. President, I would ask you to convey to the Government and the people of the Russian Federation our deepest sorrow at the deaths of your compatriots in the recent air disasters.
France fully endorses the statement to be made shortly by the representative of the Netherlands on behalf of the Euro…
I too wish to thank Mr. Annabi for introducing the report of the Secretary-General (S/2004/669) and for his very useful update on the situation in Timor-Leste. We join others in hailing the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and of the United Nations Mission of Support in Ea…
I thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his briefing. I must congratulate
Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and I should like to assure him once again of France’s full …
My delegation thanks the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for their reports, transmitted to the Council in May in documents S/2004/420 and S/2004/341 respectively, and for the useful sup…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Madam, for having organized today’s debate on a novel and stimulating subject. This is a first insofar as the topic is concerned and because you have taken the initiative, for the first time in the history of the Council, to ask the representatives of two eminent …
I should like to thank Mr. Egeland for his briefing today and the Secretary-General for his report.
Our delegation feels that this biannual meeting to address the issue before us has become one of the most interesting and important activities of our Council, because the briefings always provide us …
I would like at the outset, Sir, to say how pleased we are to have worked over the past weeks under your distinguished and effective presidency. I would also like to thank you for having chosen the important subject that brings us together today.
As shown by the experience acquired over recent year…
France voted in favour of the resolution just adopted because we believed it essential that the Security Council react swiftly and firmly in the light of the brutal deterioration of the situation in Gaza. It was necessary that the Council make an appeal to reason and restraint, as had already been d…
I too want to thank Mr. Kamalesh Sharma for his briefing; we are sorry that he is leaving his post.
The Permanent Representative of Ireland will be making a statement on behalf of the European Union, with which my delegation fully associates itself.
Mr. President, you requested that we be as brief…
First, I thank the German delegation for its excellent work last month as President of the Council. I convey to you, Sir, our congratulations and best wishes for the Pakistani presidency this month. I also wish to thank Mr. Danilo Türk for his clear and comprehensive briefing.
What struck us in tha…
My delegation fully associates itself with the statement to be made in due course by the Ambassador of Ireland on
behalf of the European Union. I would just add a few words.
First, the events of March definitely represented a serious blow to the process supported by the international community in …
We wish to thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his extremely specific briefing, which will be most useful in our further considerations. The representative of Ireland will shortly make a statement on behalf of the European Union, which we fully endorse.
Like other delegations, we have many reasons to…
At the heart of the process of national reconciliation often lie — as your country, Madame, knows especially well — serious political and moral dilemmas in terms of justice. My delegation was very interested in the meeting that Ambassador Muñoz organized a few days ago with the non-governmental orga…
