First, I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate and for honouring us with your presence. Allow me also to welcome the President of Nigeria, the Deputy President of South Africa and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France. We also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mr…
I would first like to thank the French Mission for organizing this important debate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as for the quality of the concept paper it prepared in that regard (S/2011/282, annex). I should also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and …
I thank the Chairmen of the three Committees, the Permanent Representatives of India, Germany and South Africa, for their exhaustive briefings and efforts alongside all members of the Security Council to promote international counter-terrorism cooperation. I should like to make the following comment…
At the outset, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this debate. I should also like to thank Ms. Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; Mr. Le Roy, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Affairs; and Mr. Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human …
At the outset, I would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Inzko, for his comprehensive briefing and his report (see S/2011/283) on developments in the country.
We reiterate our support for Bosnia and Herzegovina in its endeavours to complete the implementation of …
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for his briefing. We highly appreciate his efforts and those of his Office, which contribute to the protection of Libyan civilians and the implementation of the rule of law.
Lebanon recalls that, on 22 February, in…
I should like to start by thanking Mr. Pascoe for his briefing.
I recall that the links between Lebanon and Syria transcend those of mere good-neighbourliness. That is why the Taif Agreement, which is the foundation of Lebanon’s Constitution, stipulates that Lebanon, Arab in its identity, is linked…
At the outset, we would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his comprehensive briefing and to stress again the leading role that we believe the United Nations should play in the resolution of the Middle East conflict.
It is clear that the prevailing sentiment in the Arab world is one o…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Presidents Santos Calderón, Préval and Clinton, and to thank them and the Secretary-General for their excellent introductory remarks. I, in turn, would like to make the following comments.
Painful tragedies have long dwelled in the collective memory of the Hai…
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his 90-day report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). Allow me to make the following observations.
Lebanon was one of the first countries to adhere to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), i…
We have all witnessed the rapidly unfolding painful events and the great suffering that has struck Libya, a brotherly country experiencing acts of violence and the use of heavy weapons and aircraft against large swaths of the civilian population. Hundreds of innocent victims have died and we have se…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative to convene this meeting. I would also like to extend my
thanks to the Secretary-General for his preliminary observations, as well as to welcome the participation of the Prime Minister of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), M…
It was an honour for my country to sponsor resolution 65/265, adopted today. It did so for various reasons, foremost of which is the fact that Lebanon was among those countries that laid the foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by participating in the work of the committee mandat…
It is an honour to address the General Assembly today under agenda item 117 and to introduce, on behalf of a number of Arab and African States, draft resolution A/65/L.60, entitled “Suspension of the rights of membership of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the Human Rights Council”.
Time is of the ess…
The Council of the League of Arab States held an emergency meeting on 22 February to discuss the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. At the conclusion of that meeting, the Council denounced the crimes committed against the peaceful popular protests and demonstrations taking place in several Lib…
At the beginning of this week, on Monday, 14 February, the occupying Power’s municipal authorities in Jerusalem adopted a plan to construct 124 new housing units in what is known as the Ramat settlement. On 16 January, the Israeli occupying authorities approved a plan to construct 1,400 new housing …
I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Ažubalis and to thank him for his briefing, which was focused on strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations.
The authors of the United Nations Charter dedicated an entire chapter — namely, Chapter VIII — to the role of …
I would like to thank the delegation of Brazil for organizing this important debate, the first of its kind in the Security Council. Today represents a valuable opportunity to discuss the
question of interdependence between security and development. Therefore, allow me to thank Their Excellencies th…
It is my pleasure to express my appreciation to President Mkapa, Chairperson of the Secretary-General’s Panel on the Referenda in the Sudan, and Mr. Mahmoud Kane, Head of the African Union Liaison Office in Khartoum. I would also like to thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secre…
First of all, I would like to welcome Baroness Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, and thank her for her invaluable statement.
Over 50 years ago, those who drafted the United Nations Charter dedicated an entire Chapter of that document, namely,…
