At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your kind words. Allow me to say a few words of thanks to you and to all the colleagues with whom I have worked in the Security Council for your unreserved cooperation, the good offices you have always performed and your unwavering and si…
As usual, my delegation prepared a statement that was a bit long, and that statement is now before me. However, I find it extremely difficult and am extremely embarrassed to speak before the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict when it has become clear to everyone that t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this emergency meeting. My thanks go also to His Excellency the Secretary-General for his presence and for his statement.
Once again, we had wished that the people of the entire world without exception could be enjoying days of peace and calm at this time c…
As I believe that this is the first open debate of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, since the Annapolis conference was held a year ago, perhaps it might be useful for us to consider the negotiation events of the past year and to draw certa…
Once again we welcome your presence, Sir, and thank you for presiding over the Council. We also wish to welcome Their Excellencies the Ministers and His Excellency the Secretary-General and to thank him for his statement. The Council is meeting today to consider the situation in Somalia and the moun…
I would like to extend my thanks to the President of the Security Council for his initiative to convene this meeting, and I welcome his presence. We would also like to recognize the presence of the ministers and the Secretary-General at this important meeting.
This meeting is being held to consider…
At the outset, Mr. President, allow me to say how honoured we are to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council today. We would also like to welcome the presence among us today of the Secretary-General. I also wish to commend your country’s delegation, Sir, for having convened this meet…
I will speak briefly in view of the fact that this has been a long day for the Council. Hence, I will not answer the accusations made against my country by one of the speakers, because we are accustomed to that country levelling provocative accusations instead of focusing on substantive issues. The …
First of all, we would like to welcome among us Mr. Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and we thank him for his briefing to the Council regarding the overall humanitarian situation in Chad and in the Sudan. We also wish to commend him for his praiseworthy efforts in carrying o…
I shall begin with a brief review of the situation that has led me to ask the Council to convene.
On the morning of Monday, 1 December 2008, the Libyan ship Al-Marwa was headed for the port of Gaza loaded with humanitarian aid — specifically, flour, rice, vegetable oil, dairy products and medicine …
Once again, Sir, we would like to congratulation you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to assure you of our full and constructive cooperation. We would also like to express our high appreciation to Mr. Jorge Urbina and his staff for their exemplary condu…
At the outset, I would like, on behalf of the members of the League of Arab States, to congratulate the President of the General Assembly on this successful debate on two important items we have been studying for several years. Our consideration of these items stems from our interest in finding an o…
Allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his valuable briefing and to extend our high appreciation for his efforts. We would also like to thank His Excellency Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad, the representative of the United States, for the useful presentation he made on the work of the Multina…
At its sixty-first session, the General Assembly adopted resolution 61/221, entitled “Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace” and affirmed in paragraph 1 of that resolution that: “mutual understanding and interreligious dialogue constitute imp…
At the outset, I wish to associate my voice with all those who came before me in conveying my gratitude to Ambassador Urbina of Costa Rica, Ambassador Grauls of Belgium and Ambassador Jurica of Croatia, who had the leadership of the 1267, 1540 and 1373 Committees, respectively, for their very inform…
As we mark the seventh anniversary of the fall of the backward Taliban regime in Afghanistan — an event that raised hopes among the Afghan people for the dawning of a new era that would end years of isolation and war and bring about security and prosperity to the country — the situation in that coun…
Mr. President, I take great pleasure in congratulating you for the second time on your wise, effective conduct of this sixty-third session of the General Assembly. On behalf of my country, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, in its capacity as Chairman of the Arab Group for the month of November 2008, and o…
At the outset, Sir, I would like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. We assure you of our constructive cooperation and we are confident of your
successful management of the Council’s affairs. I would also like to express our appreciation for the e…
I should like first to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General for his comprehensive and detailed report (S/2008/617). I should also like to thank Mr. Kai Eide for the comprehensive briefing he has just given us. I welcome the efforts being made by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afgh…
Allow me at the outset to join those who spoke before me in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. We wish to assure you of our cooperation and support. We are truly confident that you will ably guide our work.
We also wish to express our apprec…
