I take the opportunity provided by today’s debate to pay a tribute to the leadership of the Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Yukio Takasu, the Permanent Representative of Japan, and to the work of his team. We would also like to voice our great appreciation to the Peacebuilding Support …
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to assure you of the full support of my delegation. I would also like to repeat our appreciation for the work of Ambassador Kafando and his team in the month of September.
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First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I should also like to thank Minister Stubb for the briefing he has given us, as the Chairman-in-Office, on the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I
would also like to assure him …
It will soon be four years since our heads of State and Government unanimously and irrevocably enshrined the principle of the responsibility to protect. In so doing, we offered a promise of hope to humanity — the promise of a future in which the words genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime…
This is the seventh 90-day report to the Security Council in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of resolution 1737 (2006). The report covers the period 14 June to 11 September 2008, during which the Committee held one session of informal consultations. Allow me to begin by updating the Council on a ma…
We are pleased that today the Council has renewed the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), which sends a clear message regarding the future deployment of the Mission, which is working in very difficult circumstances to promote the well-being of the populat…
The end of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), eight years after its creation and eight years after the end of the war between the two countries, is an important decision for the Security Council.
The border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea remains unresolved, and the Un…
I wish at the outset to welcome among us Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Skender Hyseni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo. I wish also to welcome Mr. Lamberto Zannier, the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and to assure him of our full suppor…
I too wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his very detailed and comprehensive briefing. I wish also to thank the representative of Palestine and Ambassador Gillerman for their useful contributions to our debate. On behalf of Belgium, a friend of Israel, I wish Ambassador Gillerman …
I wish to begin by welcoming the presence of Mr. Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal, and of the Permanent Representative of Nepal. I should also like to thank the Special Representative for his comprehensive overview of the current situation in Nepal and of the assi…
The Council has addressed the issue of children in armed
conflict on a number of occasions. Today’s debate, for which I would like to thank the President, is a timely occasion to take stock of the work accomplished by the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, established under resolution 16…
My delegation welcomes the Prime Minister of the Republic of Djibouti and the representatives of Eritrea,
the African Union and the League of Arab States. We also thank the Secretariat for its briefing.
Belgium shares the concern expressed around this table regarding the border incidents that took…
I would like to thank the Special Envoys, Mr. Salim and Mr. Eliasson, for their presentations. I would like to thank them also for their tireless efforts over the past 18 months. We would like them to know that Belgium has very much appreciated their commitment.
The briefings that we have just hear…
Allow me too to welcome among us the Secretary-General, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Boris Tadić, and the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Mr. Fatmir Sedjiu.
I would like to briefly highlight three points to which my delegation attaches special importance. First, apart from the …
First of all, my delegation would like to welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq. We would like also to thank Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari and Assistant Secretary-General Warren Sach for their respective presentations. Our thanks also go to…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for your words of welcome and to express my pleasure at taking my place at the Security Council table. You can rely on my full support and that of my delegation.
I should also like to thank Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU).
The European Union believes that the United States trade policy towards Cuba is fundamentally a bilateral issue. However, American legislation such as the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 and the Helms- Burton Act of 1996 has extended the …
