As previous speakers have done, I would like to warmly thank the British delegation — you yourself, Mr. President, and your entire team — for a very effective presidency in August.
I simply wish to touch upon a few topics.
First, on a positive note, I appreciate the unity of the Council and its p…
I thank Mr. Šimonović for his presentation of the fourth report of the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, which remains an essential source of information for us. I would like to take this opportunity to express our full support for the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissi…
I would like to thank Mr. John Ging from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for his briefing. He has told us that the humanitarian situation is worsening and he has described how the Ukrainian authorities are dealing with that situation with the support of the international comm…
I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General, Mr. Eliasson; the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Patriora; and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ms. Clark, for their briefings.
Two years after the publication of the Secretary- Genera…
I naturally align myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union.
I would like to thank Ambassadors Kim, Quinlan and Loulichki for their briefings. We note in particular that in the joint briefing, the opportunities for synergies between the Committees was highlighted.
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I thank President Meron of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and President Joensen of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their reports (S/2012/592 and S/2012/594) and Prosecutors Brammertz and Jallow for their briefings.
I will start by stressing the…
I wish to thank Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Mr. Yuri Fedotov and Ambassador Tanin for their presentations.
I align myself with the statement to be made later on by the observer of the European Union.
The NATO Summit that was just held this past month in Chicago set a timetable for the development of the In…
I would of course like to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and the Tribunals for their reports (see S/2012/354 and S/2012/349).
With respect to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the President and the Prosecu…
I should like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing. France certainly fully echoes his statement on the unity of the international community.
I would like to associate myself with the statement to be made by Mr. Mayr-Harting on behalf of the Eu…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Gabonese presidency for having convened this debate and, more broadly, to use Mr. Fedotov’s expression, for highlighting the issue of drug trafficking and organized crime as a factor leading to emerging and continued conflict. It is important that the Securit…
I would like to begin by thanking the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for their biannual reports.
This Council debate takes place, of course, at an historic moment, as Ratko Mladić — one of those allegedly responsible for the Srebrenica genocide — has just made hi…
First of all, allow me to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, whom the President designated as facilitator for the preparation of draft resolution A/64/L.69, on the review of the implementation of the U…
