Ghana welcomes the opportunity to participate once again in a debate on the Peacebuilding Commission as the country-specific meetings on Burundi and on Sierra Leone finalize their work plans in anticipation of field visits. We are pleased that the Peacebuilding Commission continues to be the object …
Allow me to thank the High Representative, Mr. Javier Solana, Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno and Under-Secretary- General Gambari for their briefings. We wish to commend the European Union for the security provided during the elections period.
The elections in the Democratic Republic of the Cong…
I would like to express my appreciation to you, Sir, for convening this meeting, and to Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his update on the situation in the Middle East.
The grave situation in the occupied Palestinian territory continues to be of much co…
I wish to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Iraq, Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, for his introduction of the report on United Nations activities in Iraq (S/2006/706). I also thank Ambassador Bolton for his briefing.
My delegation notes that further to the launchi…
I wish to congratulate Ambassador Joachim Rűcker on his appointment as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General
and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and also add my word of appreciation for his briefing. As the former Deputy Special Represe…
I wish to commend you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the situation in Darfur. The Ghana delegation wishes to thank Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General, for his presence and for the statement that he delivered at this meeting. We also join other delegations in remembering the several…
My delegation wishes to thank you, Sir, for convening this open debate on children and armed conflict, which is of particularly serious concern to us in Africa. We also thank Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed…
I would like to express the appreciation of my delegation to you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Angela Kane for her briefing on the latest developments in the Middle East.
The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, wher…
Allow me to express my delegation's sincere thanks to Mr. Jan Egeland, Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for his comprehensive briefing.
In the context of its consideration of the tragic plight of civilians trapped in armed conflict, the Security Council has worked assiduously to c…
I would like to acknowledge the presence of the Prime Minister of Kosovo and of the President of the Coordination Centre of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija.
On this occasion — World Refugee Day — my delegation joins other States Member of the United Nations in expressing solidarity w…
Madam President, I wish to commend you for having convened this meeting and also to take this opportunity to express to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ian Martin, my delegation’s appreciation of his briefing on the crisis in Timor-Leste. We have taken note of the updates and assessm…
I wish, on behalf of Ghana’s delegation, to thank the Presidents and the Chief Prosecutors of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their comprehensive briefings to the Council.
The ICTY has played a vital…
I wish to begin by thanking the Chairpersons of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), the 1267 Committee and the 1540 Committee — Ambassadors Ellen Margrethe Løj, César Mayoral and Peter Burian, respectively — for their comprehensive briefings.
We note with satisfaction that the Counter- Terrorism…
Ghana welcomes the presence of His Excellency Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba.
We associate ourselves with the statements delivered today by the representatives of Yemen, Egypt and Malawi on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Af…
