South Africa welcomes the High Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina to the Security Council and thanks him for his briefing, which we have taken note of with concern.
The Dayton Peace Accords are a peace experiment aimed at achieving, as President Clinton said at the time, “unity in diversity”. In…
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to Under-Secretary- General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing to the Council. My delegation would also like to associate itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
As we gather here …
South Africa thanks the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) for his 90-day report on the activities of the Committee. We pledge our support for the Committee’s work.
South Africa shares the concerns regarding the threats posed by the use or threat of use of weapons…
Yesterday, the United Nations commemorated the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It is a day that we recall the plight of a people that for more than 60 years have struggled for their inalienable rights for self-determination. On this day, we also recall the hardships expe…
We reiterate our position on what we view as the regular working methods of the Security Council with regard to addressing the situation in Western Sahara. Our view is based on our experience as a non-permanent of the Security Council for the last two years. We would also like to reiterate our view …
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). We also thank the representative of the United States, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, for briefing us on the acti…
My delegation wishes to thank Judge Fausto Pocar, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Judge Dennis Byron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), for their statements introducing the respective reports of their Tribunals. We are a…
