I would like to thank Ms. O’Brien and Mr. Fedotov for their presentations. I would also thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/50).
For several years now, the Council has regularly discussed the scourge of piracy along the Somali coast. When Mr. Jack Lang presented his report on the leg…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing. Allow me also, above all, to welcome the presence among us of President Ramos-Horta in difficult family circumstances.
I associate myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European U…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene this important meeting. I also thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights for having updated the General Assembly on the situation in Syria.
I associate myself with the statement just made by the representative o…
Allow me to welcome to the Security Council today the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland. Like its European partners, France shares his vision and will…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Mahiga, for his briefing and for his presence here so soon after the successful conference in Mogadishu. I also thank the representative of the African Union and the Prime Minister of Somalia for j…
I too wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting, which has become a regular feature, as it provides a rare but valuable opportunity to exchange with the force commanders and to hear the views from the field.
I thank the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Force C…
I too wish to thank Ambassador Muburi-Muita for his presentation.
As other speakers before me have said, the African Union is one of the regional bodies that has
most developed its dialogue and cooperation with the United Nations. The relationship is solid, especially between the Security Council …
I would also like to welcome to the Council Mr. Andronius Ažubalis, Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. We agree
with the priority actions that he announced and we congratulate him on his attention to fu…
France aligns itself with the statement made on behalf of the European Union. I would like to thank the Bolivian Mission for the initiative to convene this meeting. My country welcomed the adoption of resolution 64/292, whereby the General Assembly recognized the human right to safe drinking water a…
First of all, as other speakers have done before me, I would like to express my delegation’s gratitude to the Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) — namely, Ambassadors, Thomas Mayr-Harting, Ertuğrul Apakan and Claude Heller. I would l…
I should first like to thank Ambassador Takasu for his 90-day report, his management of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), the high quality of his work in the leadership of the Committee and the competence of his team.
The general context is known to all. Iran has answere…
I would first of all like to express my delegation’s gratitude to Ambassadors Vilović and Urbina for their briefings on the work of the Committees over which they preside. I would also like to thank them for the important work they carry out as the Chairs of those Committees.
My delegation associat…
