We welcome this open meeting of the Security Council. We also wish to thank Under-Secretary- General Pascoe for his briefing.
On 16 December 2008, the Security Council held a ministerial-level meeting on the question of the Middle East (6045th meeting) and adopted resolution 1850 (2008), demonstrat…
China would like to begin by thanking Mr. Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his briefing, and to commend the effort by him and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), which he leads, to maintain peace and stability in Kosovo and the…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Sir, for convening today’s meeting. We welcome the report of the Secretary-General on the current situation in Somalia (S/2009/132), and we thank Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, and Mr. Ramtane Lamamr…
We thank Mr. Rashid Khalikov, Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), for his briefing today. China has closely followed the
humanitarian situation in Darfur. We look forward to the report to be submitted by the joint OCHA- Government of the Sudan assessment team…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank Special Representative Eide for his briefing.
Today, after more than seven years of war, Afghanistan finds itself at a new crossroads. The developments in that country have attracted the world’s attention. On the one hand, the security situation continues …
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for holding this debate. We also wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing. We also wish to welcome the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Iraq.
Iraqi provinc…
First of all, the Chinese delegation wishes to congratulate Japan on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We also wish to thank the French delegation for its contribution to the work of the Council. In addition, the Chinese delegation would
like to thank Mr. Michael von der Sch…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Holmes for his briefing and express
its appreciation to the various United Nations agencies for their work over the years in the humanitarian field.
The Security Council has been seized with the question of the protection of civil…
First I wish to welcome the Foreign Ministers of Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the Permanent Representative of Rwanda, who are present at our meeting today.
China voted in favour of the resolution just adopted in order to show our support for the United Nations Organi…
First I wish to thank Mr. Serry for his briefing.
The Chinese delegation welcomes the convening of this open debate. The Security Council has just held, on Tuesday of this week, a ministerial meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at which it adopted resolution 1850 (2008). At that meeting, C…
I would like to thank President Robinson and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefing on the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I would also like to thank President Byron and Prosecutor Jallow, on the behalf of the Chinese delegation, for their briefing on t…
The twenty-first century has been called the century of oceans and seas. With 2008 coming to an end, the consideration by the General Assembly of the agenda item on oceans and the law of the sea carries special significance. We should, first and foremost, ponder the right kind of conceptual framewor…
I wish to thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs, and Mr. Raisedon Zenenga, Director of the Africa II Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, for their briefings. I welcome the presence of Mr. Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary-General of the Inter…
As Member States debate the report on the work of the Security Council (A/2008/2), at the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, they will once again realize that the Security Council has gone through another busy and challenging year. Over the past year, covering areas from Afghanistan to Hai…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting. The Chinese delegation also thanks you, Ambassador Grauls and Ambassador Jurica for your briefings on the work of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004). China is gratefu…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank the Secretary- General for the reports submitted under agenda item 65 and associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
We would also like to take the opportunity to express our s…
The Chinese delegation supports the statement made by the representative of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
For more than 10 years, the Cuban delegation has denounced each and every year from the podium of the General Assembly the sustained economic, commercial and finan…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank the Peacebuilding Commission for its report on the work of its second session. We also wish to thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his report on the operation of the Peacebuilding Fund. We support the relevant conclusions and recommendations contained in t…
I congratulate Burkina Faso on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I was pleased to see President Compaore presiding over today’s
meeting. I wish to welcome the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, to this meeting and to thank him for his statement. I wish also to welcome…
The United Nations high-level meeting on Africa’s development needs held on 22 September evaluated the needs and challenges of African development. The Political Declaration (resolution 63/1) adopted at the meeting reflected the common will of all countries to enhance cooperation and help Africa ach…
