I, too, would like to welcome Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro and Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma, Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central African States.
We appreciate your initi…
Let me join others in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Alain Le Roy, for his valuable briefing. We appreciate the presence of Ambassador Zahir Tanin at this meeting and thank him for his statement. We welcome the new Special Representative of the Secretary-Genera…
Nigeria welcomes His Excellency Mr. José Luís Guterres, Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, and we thank him for his contribution to this debate. We congratulate Ms. Ameerah Haq, the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor- Leste, and we commend her…
The Nigerian delegation wishes to express its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for scheduling this joint debate on agenda item 9, on the report submitted to the General
Assembly on the activities of the Security Council for the period 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009 (A/64/2), and on agenda item 11…
The Nigerian delegation wishes to congratulate Judge Sang-Hyun Song on his election as President of the International Criminal Court (ICC). We thank him for his comprehensive briefing to the General Assembly. We also extend our appreciation to the Secretary-General for the report on the ICC containe…
Mr. President, I thank you for convening this debate on peace and security in Africa as it relates to support for African Union peacekeeping operations authorized by the United Nations. The fact that this debate is taking place a few months after a similar one under the presidency of Libya (see S/PV…
Thank you, Mr. President, for your presentation of the draft document. Let me also take this opportunity to thank the two facilitators for the work they have done. My comments will be very brief.
My delegation has not read the document that has been presented to us. However, I have heard the commen…
Having been actively involved in United Nations peacekeeping activities since 1960, Nigeria is grateful to the French presidency of the Security Council for convening this meeting to
re-evaluate the enormous challenges facing United Nations peacekeeping operations. We are delighted by the invitatio…
On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I congratulate the President of the General Assembly on presiding over this high-level meeting on interfaith dialogue under agenda item 45 on the culture of peace.
I also congratulate His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabi…
On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I wish to express our appreciation to President Kerim and, through him, to the Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal, for the painstaking and wide consultations he undertook in the run-up to this debate in order to facilitate the draft…
On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I thank you, Sir, for convening
this open debate on children and armed conflict and for the concise concept paper circulated by your delegation. I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and illuminating reports on that subject. I also commend Ms. Radhika …
