I would like to welcome Mr. Kanat Saudabayev, Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Secretary of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. We are grateful for his comprehensive statement.
The priorities of the Kazakh chairmanship-in- of…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco, for his briefing on the situation in the region, which contained precise and balanced assessments of recent developments in the Middle East. Priority attention should now, as in the past, be devoted to the issue of relaunching Israeli-Palestini…
At the outset, allow me to join in the expressions of solidarity and condolences with respect to the tragedy that has struck Haiti, the people of that country and United Nations personnel there.
We welcome the representatives of a number of leading regional organizations and have carefully listened…
We thank the Secretary-General for introducing his latest report (S/2009/674) on the situation in Afghanistan. We also thank his Special Representative, Mr. Eide, for his assessments. We commend his work as head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and wish him success in his futu…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Japan, Ambassador Takasu, for having briefed the Council on the work of the Security
Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) over the past 90 days and for the work undertaken in that period. The Committee will need to conti…
We thank you, Sir, for your initiative to organize this meeting of the Security Council on the fight against the illicit traffic in drugs and for the adoption of today’s important presidential statement (S/PRST/2009/32).
Drug trafficking poses a serious and growing threat to international peace and…
First of all, let me express our appreciation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, for his tenth report on measures taken to investigate the situation in Darfur under Security Council resolution 1593 (2005) and for today’s briefing. We note that, judging by…
I wish you, Sir, and your delegation success as you assume the presidency of the Council for the month of December. We also thank Ambassador Mayr- Harting and the delegation of Austria for their leadership last month.
We thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal fo…
First of all, we would like to express our appreciation to the Permanent Representative of Chile, Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission, as well as to the Chairmen of its country-specific configurations, namely, the Permanent Representatives of Belgium, Brazil, Canada and Switzerland, for their e…
We welcome the participation in today’s Council meeting of Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are grateful to him for his assessment of the current situation in the country. We join in the congratulations to Bosnia and Herzegovina on its election as…
About a year and a half has now passed since the Security Council seriously took up the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia and began to develop measures to combat this evil. We think it is now time to offer an interim assessment of the results of the work done, on the basis of the report of …
I wish at the outset to thank the Chairmen of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) and the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) — Ambassadors Vilović, Mayr-Harting and Urbina, respect…
Every year, all the Member States of the United Nations have an opportunity to discuss together the results of the work of the Security Council as reflected in its report, which, today, was introduced today by the current President of the Council, Ambassador Mayr-Harting. It is very important to hav…
We are very pleased to welcome you, Sir, as you preside over the Security Council at this important meeting. We would like to thank our Austrian partners for their initiative to once again address the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We would also like to express our gratitude…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
In recent years, the authoriti…
The Russian Federation was forced to abstain in the General Assembly vote on draft resolution A/64/L.11 on the discussion of the report of the Human Rights Council (A/64/53/Add.1). The main topic of that document is the report of the United Nations Fact- Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/1…
First of all, I would like to express my appreciation to Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei for the work he has done during his 12 years in office as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). His achievements and the honours he received while in office earned him universal acclaim as is …
We are grateful to Mr. Le Roy for his introduction of the report of the Secretary-General on support to African Union peacekeeping operations (S/2009/470). We are also pleased to once again welcome Mr. Prodi to the Security Council.
Today’s meeting illustrates anew the particular attention that the…
The world financial and economic crisis has jeopardized the steady socio-economic development of the African continent. Today, as never before, it is important to implement political agreements in support of Africa achieved both at the United Nations and in other multilateral forums, including the G…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zannier, for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2009/497) on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign…
