At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to express our appreciation to our French colleagues for their very effective work in the month of February.
I should also like to thank Amb…
I wish to thank France for having convened this meeting of the Security Council. I also wish to thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his statement and Executive Director Costa for his briefing.
The 2005 World Summit Outcome (General Assembly resolution 60/1) emphasizes that drugs, transnational…
The Chinese delegation welcomes Mr. José Luís Guterres, Deputy Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, to the Council and thanks him for his statement. We congratulate Ms. Ameerah Haq on her assumption of the post of Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Timor-Leste and thank her for her compr…
The Chinese delegation thanks the French delegation for organizing today’s thematic debate. I welcome Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and thank him for his statement. I also welcome the presence of the Executive Representative of the Secretary-General Michael von der Schulenburg, Under-Secretaries- Ge…
I welcome His Excellency Mr. Kanat Saudabayev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, to the Security Council and thank him for his briefing on the activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I wish Kazakhstan success during its chairmanship of the OSCE.
While the Securit…
The Chinese delegation welcomes the note by the Secretary-General under this agenda item (A/64/365). We also welcome the Assembly’s debate on global health and foreign policy.
Over the past year, the international financial and economic crisis has posed grave challenges to global public health. The…
I would like to thank Burkina Faso for taking the initiative to hold an open debate in the Security Council on the question of drug trafficking under the agenda item “Peace and security in Africa”. Mr. President, I welcome your presence here in New York today to preside over our meeting in person. I…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank Under- Secretary-General John Holmes for his introduction. I should now like to make a few comments under this agenda item.
According to the Secretary-General’s report, there was a declining trend in the frequency of natural disasters in the past two years…
I once again welcome Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to the Security Council to brief us on the progress in fighting impunity in Darfur.
Over the past several years, the Security Council has considered the question of Darfur in the Sudan many times. During those c…
With the advance of science and technology and the deepening of mankind’s knowledge of the oceans, the interaction between mankind and the oceans has increased both in scope and in depth. Over the past several years, we have consistently advocated establishing and maintaining a harmonious marine ord…
At the outset, the Chinese delegation wishes to congratulate Burkina Faso on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December. We also congratulate Austria on its successful presidency last month. I thank President Robinson, Prosecutor Brammertz, President Byron and…
The Chinese delegation thanks the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for report on its third session (S/2009/444). Our thanks go to Ambassador Muñoz, Chairman of the Commission, for his briefing; we appreciate his hard work over the past year.
Last week the General Assembly considered the report of the…
The Chinese delegation welcomes the convening of today’s meeting. I thank High Representative Valentin Inzko for his briefing. We commend him for his efforts in promoting the political process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairm…
Mr. President, the Chinese delegation thanks you for convening today’s meeting. We thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his report on piracy in Somalia (S/2009/590), as well as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ould Abdallah for his briefing this morning.
Piracy activitie…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank Ambassador Vilović, Ambassador Urbina and you, Mr. President, for briefing the Council on the work of the Security Council Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1373 (2001), 1540 (2004) and 1267 (1999), respectively. China wishes to express its ap…
The Chinese delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate. I would like to welcome the report submitted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon entitled “Support to African peacekeeping operations authorized by the United Nations” (S/2009/470). I would also like to thank Under-Secretar…
At the outset, I welcome the reports submitted by the Secretary-General on the agenda items under discussion (A/64/204, A/64/208 and A/64/210). The Chinese delegation supports the statement made by the representative of the Sudan on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Africa is home to most develo…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. We welcome the presentation of the report of Secretary- General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2009/497). We thank Mr. Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-
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The Chinese delegation welcomes the report submitted by the Secretary-General in document A/64/303 under agenda item 43, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin”, and supports draft resolution A/64/L.17, submitted by the delegation of Greece under this agenda item.
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The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened today’s meeting. We welcome the report submitted by the Secretary- General on recent developments in the situation in Somalia (S/2009/503). We also thank Mr. Pascoe and Mr. Boyd for their briefings. We welcome the partici…
