Let me express my deep respect to you, Mr. President, for the tireless efforts you have made as the leader of the General Assembly. I look forward to working with you, Sir, to ensure a seamless transition between our terms.
It is a great honour to stand before members as President-elect of the Gene…
I thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting of the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
I welcome the presence of Special Representative Farid Zarif, and I thank him for his statement.
The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is a crucial pillar of…
I would just like to direct the attention of the Council to one or two points that came up in the debate. I think that one thing that we really must address is that there may be different political points of view on how we see the issue of Kosovo from the legal perspective, the perspective of the ru…
Mr. President, thank you for convening this meeting of the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
At the outset, I would like to greet the new members of the Council and to appeal to them to continue to refrain from recognizing any solution to the Kosovo problem that is not the produc…
I would like to briefly address some of the remarks made in the Chamber this morning.
First of all, I would like to refer to the so-called parallel structures. In order to have something parallel, one needs to have something to which it is parallel. Those are the only structures that exist in that …
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting of the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
I welcome the presence of Special Representative Farid Zarif. I congratulate him on his recent appointment and thank him for his remarks. The United Nations Interim Administration Missio…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting of the Security Council on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
At the outset, on behalf of the Republic of Serbia I would like to offer my deepest condolences to all those affected by F…
I would just like to make a brief comment on some of the statements made today.
On the subject of the Security Council giving mandates to investigate war crimes in the Balkans, I would like to reiterate that all of the war crimes that have been investigated were investigated under the auspices of t…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting of the Security Council on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
I welcome the presence of Special Representative Lamberto Zannier and gratefully acknowledge the u…
I would like to thank you very much, Madame President, for convening this meeting of the Security Council on Kosovo pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
I welcome the presence of Special Representative Lamberto Zannier. The United Nations remains a crucial actor in the province. We believe it is cri…
This afternoon, we meet again for a regular meeting of the Security Council on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMMIK) pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999). I welcome the presence of Special Representative Lamberto Zannier.
The United Nations remains an indispensable acto…
Allow me to introduce draft resolution A/64/L.65/Rev.1, proposed by the Republic of Serbia, which is co-sponsored by the 27 countries of the European Union.
My presence here today as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Serbia signifies the paramount importance that my country assigns to the issue t…
I have a point of order. We see representatives of Pristina in the Hall. They do not represent an independent, sovereign United Nations Member State, so could you please explain to us, Mr. President, their presence in the Hall?
I would just like very briefly to make a clarification about the Court’s ruling.
A few members of the Council have said today that the advisory opinion of the Court stated that the unilateral declaration of independence was in accordance with international law. That was not actually the case. If on…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this regular meeting of the Security Council on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999).
I welcome the presence of Special Representative Lamberto Zannier. The United Nations continues to be an indispens…
I am going to be very brief. I just want to reflect on a few thoughts that I heard this afternoon.
I cannot agree with some of the speakers’ assessments that Serbia is exercising irresponsible interference in other countries’ regional affairs. When it comes to Serbia’s regional outlook and the way …
In 1947, then-President of the General Assembly Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil eloquently defined what he termed the principal mission of the United Nations — to unveil the truth and to face reality in all its complexity, enabling our actions to be properly guided in the maintenance of peace and security …
I am going to just briefly address some of the notions presented here related to the distortion of reality.
What is true is that Kosovo is a very difficult place to live right now, and not exactly the kind of place that Mr. Hyseni and a few other participants in today’s discussion were attempting t…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting of the Security Council.
Once again, we are gathered to discuss the situation in the Serbian province of Kosovo. I would like right at the outset to express my country’s deep gratitude to the substantial majority of United Nations Member States that resp…
I really want to direct the attention of the Council briefly to the source of the figures that were mentioned in the intervention of Serbia: 206,000 is the official number of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It is really unbelievable that here in this building somebody is d…
