At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, and to thank Special Adviser Lang for his report and his valuable introductory remarks. We also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs for his briefing and the representative of Somalia for his statemen…
Allow me first to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important and timely debate. Allow me also to thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, Ambassador Peter Wittig and the Deputy Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Luís Guterres, for their briefings and presentations.
It is well known t…
As Council members know, the sixth paragraph of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War states that “[t]he Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies”. The Internat…
I would like at the outset to express my appreciation to Mr. Mkapa for his briefing. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, Mr. Menkerios, for his valuable preliminary remarks.
We would like to express our satisfaction with the peaceful and impartial conduct…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Le Roy for his extensive briefing. I
join previous speakers in thanking Chairman Mkapa for his briefing and his colleagues for their efforts in the Secretary-General’s Panel on the Referenda in the Sudan. I also thank Minister Siddiq and Mr. Amum for their statements.
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First, I wish to thank you, Madame, for organizing today’s open debate. I would also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Special Representative Wallström, Under-Secretary- General Le Roy and Lieutenant General Gaye for their comprehensive briefings.
Wartime sexual violence has been the sub…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative to convene this high-level meeting, which attests to Iraq’s pivotal role in the Arab and Muslim worlds. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports and detailed comments. I would like to praise the role of the Ministers and the Spe…
In September, Barack Obama, President of the United States, declared from this rostrum his hope that a Palestinian State will have become a member of the United Nations by the next session of the General Assembly (see A/65/PV.11). There is no doubt that the establishment of a Palestinian State on Pa…
At the outset, I wish to welcome the Ministers to the Council today. Like others, I thank Mr. Mbeki for his sustained efforts and for today’s briefing. We commend his efforts to bring the parties in the Sudan together to agree on unresolved issues that remain in dispute. I thank Mr. Karti, Minister …
Lebanon regrets the fact that some speakers have tried to use today’s debate to distract us from our main work, which is to consider the work of the technical committees involved in the fight against terrorism. We therefore reject the conflation of the legitimate right of people to resist foreign oc…
I would like to thank the Chairs of the three Committees — the Permanent Representatives of Austria, Turkey and Mexico, Ambassadors Mayr-Harting, Apakan and Heller — for their comprehensive briefings and efforts with other Council members in promoting international cooperation on counter-terrorism. …
Allow me first to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important and timely debate. Allow me also to thank His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Mrs. Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General; Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of…
I should like to start, Mr. President, by extending to you my appreciation for having convened this meeting. This initiative is extremely important in the light of the pivotal role played by the African Union as far as peace and security on the African continent is concerned. I would also like to th…
I wish at the outset to commend Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his comprehensive briefing. We support the important role of the United Nations in the settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.
We have no doubt, Sir, that you share our view that the major feature of the situation i…
I would like to start by conveying my gratitude to the Secretary-General for his report on the situation in Afghanistan and its impact on international peace and security (S/2010/463). I would also like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the
Secretary-General and head of the…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Minister Davutoğlu and to thank the Turkish presidency for having organized this important and substantive meeting, as the United Nations has a central role to play in fighting terrorism. I should also like to thank the Secretary- General for his valuable brief…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mahiga, for his comprehensive briefing, and wish him every success in his work for peace and stability in Somalia. I also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kenya and thank him for his valuable con…
I thank Mr. Edmond Mulet, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing on the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) (S/2010/446). My thanks go also to the Permanent Representative of Haiti for his statement.
We are pleas…
As we renew the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today, it is important not to forget that the current enhanced mission of UNIFIL came on the heels of the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, which killed 1,125 Lebanese civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands, not to …
Allow me, first, to extend the thanks of the Government of Lebanon to all members of the Security Council for the unanimous decision to renew for another year the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), without amendment to its mission, its rules of engagement or its concept…
