First of all, Sir, let me congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of May. We look forward to close cooperation with you. I should also like to thank Ambassador Heller of Mexico for his presidency last month, under truly challenging circumstances.
I wish to…
Austria wholeheartedly supports the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for another 12 months. It is very important, from our point of view, that the Council has been able to achieve unity in this matter, because resolution 1871 (2009) …
Madame President, I would first like to thank you for your presence here today and for your personal commitment to the issues that we are dealing with. I should also like to express my sympathy and solidarity in regard to the epidemic that your country is currently experiencing, an epidemic that has…
Austria associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Czech Republic on behalf of the European Union later in this meeting. We would also in particular like to thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his substantive and very comprehensive briefing.
We are confro…
I, too, would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his detailed briefing, and we are grateful that we had the chance to listen to Ambassadors Mansour and Shalev. I wish to align myself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Czech Republic on behalf of the Europea…
We appreciate the presence of President Boris Tadić of Serbia and thank him for his speech. We are also very grateful for the opportunity to listen to the views of Mr. Skender Hyseni, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosovo. Allow me to also express our deep appreciation for the work of Mr. Lambe…
Like others, I would like to thank Special Representative Ould Abdallah for his very important and comprehensive briefing. We are also grateful for the excellent reports received from the Secretary-General (S/2009/132 and S/2009/146). We warmly welcome the participation of Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omaa…
Like others, I would like to thank Mr. Rashid Khalikov for updating us on the humanitarian situation in the Sudan.
The continued delivery of humanitarian assistance in the Sudan is vital to the survival of a significant part of the population of Darfur. Austria is therefore deeply concerned by the …
I, too, wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Kai Eide, for his briefing to the Council today. We greatly appreciate his personal commitment, which he has shown again today, and the leadership that he provides at the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in …
We would ask you, Sir, to convey our congratulations to the new Permanent Representative of your country on the occasion of his assuming the presidency of the Council.
We are very grateful for the contributions made to our debate by Mr. Ramtane Lamamra, Commissioner for Peace and Security of the Af…
Let me begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for taking the initiative of organizing this debate. I would also like to thank Minister Bakoyannis for briefing us on the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Her presence here today is a sign of the vital
cooperation …
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Representative De Mistura
for his important and informative briefing. We are also grateful for the statement made by Ambassador Al Bayati and the encouraging developments that he has pointed to in his country. We commend the determined and courageous wor…
Let me at the outset express our gratitude for the presence of President Ramos-Horta. We are pleased to see him in the Council today and thank him for his impressive and, at the same time, candid statement. We are also particularly grateful for the presence of the Secretary- General and for his comp…
First of all, Mr. President, I should like to congratulate you formally on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. I should also like to thank France for its chairmanship during the month of January.
I should like to thank the Executive Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Michael…
I would like first to thank the Permanent Representative of Uganda for the excellent cooperation we had and I only regret that we did not have a chance to work longer together on the Council.
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As for the issue being discussed today, I wish first to thank the Security Council presi…
At the outset, let me thank you, Sir, for organizing this very important debate and Under-Secretary-General Holmes for his important and impressive presentation. It was impressive, if I may say so, in its general thrust and important in particular in what you said about ongoing conflict situations, …
Austria believes that there was an urgent need for this formal call by the Council for an immediate, permanent and fully respected ceasefire. We also believe that it was essential to preserve the unity of the Council regarding this important matter that is of concern to the entire world. We therefor…
At the outset, Sir, let me thank you for this possibility of an exchange with the High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. António Guterres. We would like to welcome High Commissioner Guterres and thank him for his informative and thought-provoking briefing. Let me also add that we believe that more freq…
On behalf of the Group of Western European and other States, I would like to extend our sincere congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss of Switzerland on his election as President of the General Assembly for its sixty-fifth session. Mr. Deiss’s election is a recognition of Switzerland’s i…
