Allow me to begin by welcoming Under-Secretary-General Pascoe and thanking him for presenting us with an analysis of the challenges that the Middle East region is presently facing. I would also like to acknowledge the presence of the Ambassador of Israel and the representative of the Palestinian Aut…
Permit me to welcome to the Chamber the President of Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Boris Tadić, and the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, His Excellency Mr. Skender Hyseni, and to thank them for their statements. I would like also to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General…
We would like to join others in thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abadallah, for his briefing. We are also very grateful for all his hard work in Somalia. In addition, we appreciate the intervention by His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar, Minister …
First of all, let me thank Mr. Rashid Khalikov once again for his briefing on the grave humanitarian situation on the ground in Darfur. Yet again and after only a short period of time, we are meeting to hear about things going from bad to worse in Darfur. After hearing the news about four peacekeepe…
Let me thank Mr. Kai Eide for his briefing. In the same vein, I would like to pay tribute to Mr. Eide for his determined leadership and to all the staff of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for their genuine commitment and hard work undertaken in harsh circumstances. I als…
I should like first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the duties of Permanent Representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and to thank you and the Libyan presidency of the Security Council for organizing this important open debate.
I also thank Ms. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Mini…
I should like to join others in warmly welcoming to this Chamber Her Excellency Ms. Dora Bakoyannis, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece and the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for 2009.
My delegation thanks the Foreign Minister for her inf…
I should like to begin by thanking Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, for his informative and comprehensive briefing and express our appreciation for the ongoing effort and commitment that he and his team are investing in fulfilling the mandate of the U…
We deeply appreciate His Excellency President José Ramos-Horta’s personal participation in and contribution to today’s debate. I thank him for his update on the situation in Timor- Leste. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his views on the situation in Timor-Leste as well.
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Let me begin by expressing our appreciation for all efforts to come up with a clear Council response to the situation in Gaza. We commend the intense personal engagement of the ministers, which has made it possible to adopt this important resolution, which has our full support. The resolution reflec…
I, too, would like to thank you, Sir, for convening and presiding over this very important meeting of the Security Council. I would like to begin by welcoming Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the President of the Palestinian National Authority His Excellency Mahmoud Abbas, Secretary-General of the Ara…
I would like to join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Menkerios, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IOM), the Director of the Africa II Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), the Permanent Representative of Somalia and the Permanent…
It is our pleasure Mr. President, to welcome you to the Security Council today. I would like to thank you for your initiative in organizing this open debate on the strengthening of collective security through the general regulation and reduction of armaments. We would also like to welcome the Vice-P…
May I begin by extending our welcome to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. de Mistura, and expressing our
appreciation for the ongoing efforts and commitment that he and his team are devoting to fulfilling the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). …
Let me start by expressing my sincere appreciation to the President of the General Assembly for organizing this high-level meeting and to His Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia for having undertaken this initiative. We have had the chance during the past two days to listen to heads of State or Governm…
In my capacity as the Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to
resolution 1373 (2001), known as the Counter- Terrorism Committee, it is my honour to brief the Security Council on the work of the Committee in the past six months. Before entering into the core of the presentation, I would li…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing this debate to consider the second annual report of the Peacebuilding Commission. Today’s deliberations should help us to take stock of the progress made thus far and the challenges we face as we enter the Commission’s third year of work.
I would also like to take t…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Kai Eide, for his full and informative briefing and for his leadership of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in these difficult and challenging times. At the same time, we are ple…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the Presidents of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judge Pocar and Judge Byron, and thank them for presenting their respective reports (A/63/210 and A/63/209).
Fifteen years …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States.
The Group of Eastern European States has been and continues to be strongly committed to United Nations peacekeeping activities. Members of our Group have consistently been among troop contributors to United Nations peacek…
