Our delegation welcomes the participation at this meeting of the Security Council of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Adnan Terzić.
We express our appreciation to the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Schwarz-Schilling, for the thorough briefi…
Before we go on to other items, we should like to explain, in light of the remarks made by the representative of Georgia, that a vote has just been taken on whether or not the General Assembly wished
to retain paragraph 52 of the report of the General Committee. We did not vote in favour of includi…
Our question concerns procedure. We fully support the proposal put forward earlier and the position expressed by the delegation of Armenia. We should like to receive clarification, Madam President, as to your intention. In other words, we would like to know exactly what wording you intend to use, pa…
We should like to seek a clarification on the situation.
As members know, today’s meeting of the General Assembly has been convened in accordance with rule 21 of the rules of procedure in order to adopt the report of the General Committee. We have just adopted the agenda for this meeting. I should …
The Russian Federation would like to make the following statement in connection with the statements made by previous speakers.
We would like to recall that the issue of including this item in the agenda has already been considered in a meeting of the General Committee. As a result, the initiative t…
The Russian delegation wishes to lend its full support to the position expressed by the People’s Republic of China on the issue of Chinese representation in the United Nations. We believe that this issue has been settled once and for all and that the General Assembly, by acting today in support of t…
We are grateful to Mr. Egeland for his briefing, which contained up-to-date information about the state of affairs in the area of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. That task requires systematic, coordinated measures at the international, regional and national levels. An effective respon…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene a debate on this issue in the Council today. We are also very grateful to Judge Higgins and Mr. Michel for their informative briefings. There can be no doubt that today’s theme is extremely relevant in the context o…
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, marked the twentieth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which emerged as the worst technological catastrophe of the twentieth century in terms of its scope and aftermath.
The heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) gath…
We thank you, Sir, for convening this important meeting and the Secretary-General for his report on small arms.
We note the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, Mr. Oscar
Maúrtua, and thank the Officer-in-Charge of the Department for Disarmament Affairs for…
