I would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for
joining us at this important meeting of the Security Council. We would also like to welcome to the Council Chamber Mr. Bedouma Alain Yoda, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso, and Mr. Alain Joyandet, Minister of State for Cooperation …
We welcome the presence among us of Mr. Rangin Dâdfar Spantâ, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, to whom we have listened with great attention, especially
in connection with the four categories of challenges that his country currently faces. We also welcome the presence of the Minister fo…
On behalf of the Government of Mexico, it is an honour to address the General Assembly for the consideration of the report by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as contained in document A/64/92, which reflects the outcome of the high-level segment of the fifty-second session of the Commission on Narco…
I welcome the initiative of your delegation, Mr. President, to hold this open debate on the topic of women and peace and security. I also thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for introducing his report (S/2009/362) pursuant to resolution 1820 (2008) and for his presence here today.
The Secretary-Ge…
We would like to thank the Under-Secretaries-General, Mr. Alain Le Roy and Ms. Susana Malcorra, for their presentations. We also wish to thank General Agwai, Force Commander of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).
We welcome the United Kingdom initiative to hold thi…
Since this is the first meeting of the Security Council under the current presidency of the United Kingdom, allow me to warmly congratulate you, Ambassador Sawers, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August. I am certain that you will have
excellent memories of your…
We are grateful for the valuable information provided by Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia. We appreciate his
commendable work and commitment in a very complex situation presenting a major challenge to the international community. We also welcome the…
I would like to begin my statement by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Chad and the Central African Republic, Mr. Victor Da Silva Angelo, for his briefing this morning. I also welcome the presence in the Council today of the Permanent Representatives of the Central Af…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing today on the situation in the Middle East. I would also like to thank
the Permanent Representative of Israel for being with us as well as the Permanent Observer of the Palestinian Authority.
The open debate …
Mexico, like other members, thanks President Renate Winter and Prosecutor Stephen Rapp of the Special Court for Sierra Leone for the detailed information they have provided to the Council on the work of the Special Court, its successes and the challenges ahead. We also welcome the presence of the re…
I should like to begin this statement by thanking the Secretary- General for his presence today and for the briefing that he gave us on his recent visit to Myanmar. My delegation is particularly grateful for the good offices efforts that the Secretary-General has been making in Myanmar, which procee…
We would like to thank Under-Secretaries-General Lynn Pascoe and Susana Malcorra for their briefings today and Ambassador Elmi Ahmed Duale, the Permanent Representative of Somalia, for his statement. We welcome the presence here among us of the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United N…
As we are aware of the fact, Sir, that this meeting marks the end of your presidency of the Security Council for the month of June and also represents the equivalent in your duties as Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations, I would like to join the others in expressing my gratitude…
My delegation thanks you, Sir, for convening this debate, which comes at a time when the protection of civilians in armed conflicts is assuming particular importance. Although the obligations stemming from international instruments on international humanitarian law, human rights and refugee law are …
We would like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for the information that he has shared with us today and Mr. Vuk Jeremić, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, for his presence and statement. We also thank Mr. Skender Hyseni for his statement.…
Mexico voted in favour of the resolution that was submitted to the Council today because we believe that it is indispensable to maintain the presence of the United Nations mission in Georgia in order to preserve peace in the region and the security of its inhabitants, while bearing in mind the compl…
My delegation would also like to thank Ambassador Takasu for the detailed briefing that he presented to us on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), and we eagerly await the follow-up of the matters referred to.
My delegation is concerned ab…
The resolution that we have just adopted constitutes a clear message that the actions carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are not acceptable to the international community and that they jeopardize international peace and security. The fuller and more cohesive the participation o…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the 23 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that make up the Rio Group: namely, Argentina, Belize, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guy…
We, too, welcome the presence of Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone, to whose statement we listened very carefully. We also thank Mr. Michael von der Schulenburg, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General in Sierra Leone, and Ambassador John McNee in his c…
