Mr. President, my delegation is most grateful to you for having convened this Special Meeting at the end of the International Year of Human Rights Learning. Enshrined as one of the three pillars of the United Nations system, human rights is one of the most important matters that the international co…
My delegation is very grateful to you, Mr. President, for convening this plenary meeting of the General Assembly, devoted, inter alia, to the consideration of the report of the Secretary-General on the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (A/64/372).
It is a…
Benin voted in favour of the resolution to demonstrate its systematic rejection of human rights violations, regardless of their origin. Benin’s vote proceeds from its consistent foreign policy and is directed against no particular country.
No one, under any circumstances, must exempt themselves fro…
My delegation would like to express through me its high commendation of the admirable fashion in which the President is conducting the Assembly’s deliberations at its sixty-fourth session and to thank him for organizing this joint debate on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the c…
My delegation is grateful to the President for having organized this debate of the General Assembly on a key point of the conclusions of the 2005 Summit, namely, the issue of protecting populations from heinous crimes that seriously undermine human dignity. My delegation endorses the statement made …
Allow me to say how pleased I am to be able to take the floor today on behalf of my country, the Republic of Benin, on the occasion of the current plenary meeting devoted to outcome of and follow-up to the International Year of Microcredit. I should also like to take this opportunity to compliment t…
Benin voted in favour of resolution 63/42, entitled “Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on their Destruction”, because the Government of Benin attaches great importance to the fight against landmines in the…
My delegation has some concerns. We would like to know whether the candidate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was actually authorized to withdraw his candidature at this state of the proceedings. That is really a point of order.
Mr. President, my delegation would like to thank you for having convened this meeting to consider the report
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It would like to voice its appreciation to the Director General of the Agency for having given a most impressive statement this morning and …
At the outset, I would like to thank the President for convening today’s meeting on improving global road safety in order to take up the very informative report (A/62/257) transmitted by the Secretary-General. This is an important issue that affects the lives of people in every country in the world.…
My delegation would like once again voice its appreciation to you, Sir, for the clear-sightedness with which you have been leading the work of the sixty-second session.
I wish to refer to the question of the peaceful reunification of Korea. My country, the Republic of Benin, has friendly relations …
Let me express my delegation’s great appreciation to the Secretary-General for the exhaustive report on the work of the Organization during the first year of his mandate (A/62/1). Whoever reads the report will attest that the Secretary-General understands well the peoples’ expectations of the United…
My delegation is pleased to have this opportunity to give thought together to the progress report of the Secretary-General on this very important question of the prevention of armed conflict. We welcome the commendable efforts to promote dialogue made by the Department for Political Affairs in draft…
Allow me to express my delegation’s considerable admiration for the skill with which you have guided this debate on the reform of the Security Council, which is reaching its final stages.
United Nations reform received decisive impetus at the September 2005 summit, thanks to the renewed commitment …
I would like to thank Ambassador Daudi Mwakawago, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone, for the briefing he has just given us in introduction of the Secretary-General’s twenty-seventh, and last, report on the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) (S/2005/777). …
Benin voted in favour of resolution 1645 (2005), on the Peacebuilding Commission. We did so because we support that body and that resolution in both spirit and letter.
However, we deem it inappropriate for the resolution to have been submitted under the current agenda item title. My delegation beli…
Allow me to express from this rostrum my solemn condolences and those of my delegation to the delegation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan upon the terrorist attacks that took place in that country 9 November 2005. We repeat here our condemnation of terrorism in all its forms. My delegation aligns …
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jean Arnault, for the excellent introduction to the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2005/525). We thank him for bringing us up to date on the latest developments in the country. The in-…
My delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for having convened this open meeting of the Security Council to allow us to consider developments in the situation in the Middle East, including Palestine.
We thank Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his excellent…
My delegation echoes the congratulations addressed to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July 2005 and the tributes paid to Ambassador De La Sablière of France for his excellent guidance of the Council’s work last month.
Our thanks go to Danilo T…
