I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having scheduled today’s debate on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. I wish also to thank Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing, and Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, for…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for the 90-day update report and a job well done in leading the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) since January — an experience that will certainly help as you, Sir, also preside over the Council for the month of September. We also appreciat…
We wish to thank Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals; Judge Vagn Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR); and Prosecutor…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abou Moussa, for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of UNOCA and on the Lord’s Resistance Army-affected areas (S/2013/297)…
I would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the comprehensive presentation of the ninth report he has submitted to the Council — the forty-third report of his Office. We particularly thank him for his work in ensuring that the Dayton Peace Agreement…
Let me join others in thanking Ambassadors Kim Sook of the Republic of Korea, Gary Quinlan of Australia and Mohammed Loulichki of Morocco for their respective statements. I take this opportunity to commend their efforts and the activities undertaken by their respective Committees under their able le…
I would like to join others in thanking Mr. Nigel Fisher for his insightful briefing. I congratulate him for the work he is doing as Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti.
Rwanda commends the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for the role it is play…
I congratulate Ambassador Gary Quinlan of Australia on assuming the chairmanship of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). I thank him for his first briefing before the Council on the 90-day report of the Committee and for the commendable work he is doing at the helm of the Co…
All me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for having organized this debate. I also thank Mr. Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the general situation in the region. I also welcome Mr. Riad Malki, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, and Ambas…
Allow me to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing to the Council. I also would like to thank His Excellency Jalil Abbas Jilani, as President of the Security Council, for having organized this important debate and for the tremendous role Pakistan has always played in …
I would like to thank you, Sir, for the opportunity afforded my delegation to speak to the Security Council. I would like first to commend you for your outstanding leadership of the Council this month. It has been a busy month due to global events that have not permitted you a moment of rest.
Rwand…
I would also like to congratulate you, Sir, upon your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council.
Rwanda had planned to speak tomorrow during the debate on the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Committee, but the adoption of resolution 2076 (2012) this evening and the statement j…
Let me at the outset thank Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Judge Vagn Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), for their comprehensive reports on the completion strategy of their respective tribun…
I thank you, Sir, for the opportunity that you have given my delegation to speak in this debate. The Rwandan delegation thanks the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the presentatio…