I want to start by congratulating you, Madame President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. We have no doubt that you will have an extremely successful presidency. I would also like to take this opportunity to complement
Lebanon, and in particular…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling today’s debate on the situation in Afghanistan. I welcome His Excellency Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, to the Council and thank him for his statement. We are grateful for the latest report of the Secretary…
At the outset, I would like to join others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mariano Fernandez Amunategui for his comprehensive briefing on the recent developments in Haiti and for the Secretary-General’s report (S/2011/540). Haiti has been making steady, but slow progress …
At the outset, I would like to join others in thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Augustine Mahiga, for his comprehensive briefing on recent developments in Somalia and for the Secretary- General’s report. I would also like to welcome Mr. Mohamed Ali, Prime Minister of the …
At the outset, I would like to welcome you, Mr. President, to New York and thank you for chairing this open debate. I would also like to thank Special Coordinator Robert Serry for his comprehensive briefing and the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and Executive Director Achim Steiner of the United Nations Environment Programme for their statements. The interest and participation that today’s open debate has evoked testifies to the importance that we all attach to the subject of climat…
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Vice-President Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon and the other members of his delegation to the Council on this historic occasion. I also wish to welcome to the Security Council the Ministers from Brazil, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Germany, France, Portugal, the R…
I, too, would like to express our appreciation for Germany’s able stewardship of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and its organization of today’s debate.
Rabindranath Tagore, the national poet of India, said that “every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of…
I would like to join other colleagues in thanking Ambassador Néstor Osorio for presenting the 90-day report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We appreciate the work of the Committee under Ambassador Osorio’s stewardship. We also take note of the Panel …
Let me begin by thanking the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Patricia O’Brien, for briefing the Council on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/360) submitted pursuant to resolution 1976 (2011) on the modalities for the establishment of specialized Somali courts to try suspected pi…
At the outset, I would like to thank President Mbeki and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Menkerios, for their briefings on the situation in Abyei and other areas of the Sudan. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of the Sudan and the representative of the …
We are deeply honoured, Mr. President, by your presiding over the Council at this debate. Please allow me to join other delegations in welcoming you to New York. We would also like express our appreciation for your delegation’s efforts in organizing this debate and during the negotiation of resoluti…
I should like to thank the French presidency of the Security Council for having organized this timely debate. I should like also to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Minister Tshibanda for their comprehensive briefings. The issues that they raised and the approach they suggested should guide u…
I had the honour to assume the chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution
1373 (2001) at the beginning of this year. I would like to thank my predecessor, Ambassador Apakan of Turkey, for his excellent work in steering the Committee in 2010. It gives me great …
On behalf of the Chairmen of the three subsidiary bodies of the Security Council established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) dealing with the issue of terrorism, I have the honour to update the Security Council on the continued cooperation between the three Committee…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for his briefing today. I have also taken note of his report to the Security Council submitted pursuant to paragraph 7 of resolution 1970 (2011).
India, as members know, is not a signatory to the…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation in Syria.
Syria has, historically and in contemporary times, been an important country in the Middle East. Its role in the Middle East peace process and in the stability of the wider region cannot be overemp…
I would like to congratulate His Excellency President Santos Calderón on presiding over the Security Council’s open debate today. It is also a matter of great satisfaction that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his Special Envoy President Clinton, President Préval of Haiti, the Foreign Minister of Colo…
India is seriously concerned at the situation that has prevailed in Côte d’Ivoire since the presidential elections last year. We have consistently held that both parties in Côte d’Ivoire should exercise maximum restraint and respect the outcome of the elections. We have urged the parties to ensure t…
Peacebuilding and peacekeeping-peacebuilding are and will remain core activities of the Council in the immediate future. Let me therefore begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting today on post-conflict peacebuilding. The results of such initiatives will play a key role in de…
