It gives me great pleasure to make this statement on behalf of Ireland. Ireland associates itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Germany on behalf of the European Union.
At no time in the history of the HIV pandemic have we been more certain of its causes and consequences, as…
I would like, in my capacity as Chairman of the Group of Western European and other States, to warmly congratulate Her Excellency Ambassador Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain on her election as President of the General Assembly for its sixty-first session. Ambassador Al-Khalifa’s elec…
It is my particular honour, on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States, to welcome the Republic of Montenegro as the 192nd Member of the United Nations. The Republic of Montenegro arrives among us as a newly independent State, but we acknowledge its long national history, reflected …
First allow me to welcome you, Mr. President, to the Security Council today. Ireland is very pleased that you are here today to chair this important debate at the very beginning of the Colombian presidency. I would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Chinese delegation on the manne…
First of all I’d like to say what a pleasure it was to have the Secretary-General here with us on what is clearly his day. Secondly, to thank you for your dynamic and courteous leadership of the Council during this month and for the very effective work of your team. We welcome today’s wrap-up discus…
I should like to thank Special Representative Jacques Klein for what I found to be a very thought-provoking presentation, in terms of both the immediate challenges and the long-term strategic options for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was an intervention that, I think, will bear careful re-reading.
The…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for introducing the Secretary-General’s latest report, which outlines proposals for the transition to phase III of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). I would also like to
thank the Special R…
I shall try to be brief. I would like to begin by thanking Ambassador Menkerios and the rest of the Committee of Experts for their report (S/2001/511), which was compiled in difficult circumstances and which contains many useful recommendations. I would like also to take this opportunity to recogniz…
I shall be brief. I would like to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing and for the good news that he has brought today. We agree with his proposal relating to elements for the message that the Council should send out from today’s discussion.
I would like to make just one point, relating to the work …
I will try to be as brief as possible. I should like to start by thanking Mr. Guéhenno for his very informative briefing and for the thoroughness with which he has answered many of the questions that have been put to him. Sweden is going to speak in a minute on behalf of the European Union, so I wil…
Let me first welcome you, Sir, to the chair and wish the United Kingdom well for its presidency of the Security Council. I would also like to endorse your decision to bring this kind of briefing into open session.
I would like now to thank Mr. Annabi for his most informative briefing today, which w…
Ireland is deeply concerned at the apparently worsening conflict in the occupied Palestinian territories and the resultant loss of life, including the deaths of innocent children.
We have been working over the past week with other members of the Council, in particular our fellow Europeans, members …
I thank you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the presence of the new Permanent Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of Tunisia; we wish them welcome. I would like to thank Mr. Petritsch for his informative briefing on the
situation in Bosnia …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting. We would congratulate Mr. Haekkerup on his work since becoming head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and thank him for the informative briefing he has provided today.
Ireland fully subscribes t…
Ireland joins with others in welcoming Foreign Minister Kerim to the Security Council today. We, too, strongly condemn the recent violence by armed extremists along the border region between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, including the attacks on S…
I would like to express our gratitude to you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting today, and to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his informative briefing on the situation in Kosovo. Ireland fully subscribes to the detailed statement which will be delivered by the Permanent Representa…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for calling this open meeting today. Ireland associates itself fully with everything in the statement which will be delivered by Ambassador Schori of Sweden, as representative of the presidency of the European Union. I would like to take the opportunity of t…
