I would like to thank Ambassador Quinlan for his briefing today on the work of the Security Council Committee
established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), and for his leadership of that important Committee. The briefing was highly informative and helps to clarify the obligations of Member States…
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for introducing the 2012 annual report on the work of the Agency (see A/68/324). While strongly supporting the central role of the Agency in promoting safe, secure and peaceful uses…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary- General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu for their informative briefings. I also appreciate Azerbaijan’s initiative in organizing today’s meeting. The growing complexity and multifaceted nature of recent conflicts highlights the need for more vigorous and coo…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his informative briefing. I also listened carefully to the statements made by the observer of Palestine and the representative of Israel.
Three months have passed since Israel and Palestine began negotiations in July. Although not much information has bee…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ján Kubiš for his briefing. We fully support the dedicated work of the Special Representative and his staff. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Ambassador Tanin, for his insightful statement.
Afghanistan now finds itself…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing. I also welcome Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić and Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj to the Council today.
We are pleased to note that Belgrade and Pristina continue to move forward in their implementation of th…
At the outset, let me join the others in welcoming to the Council Ms. Sandra Honoré, Special Representative of the Secretary-General. I thank Ms. Honoré for her comprehensive briefing.
First, it is encouraging to note that the overall security situation in Haiti has steadily improved. Stability, al…
At the outset, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the United Kingdom for convening today’s meeting on the situation in Somalia. We welcome you, Mr. President, in your capacity as President of today’s meeting. I would also like to extend my appreciation to the Deputy Secretary-General…
I should like to join other speakers in thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Abou Moussa, for his informative briefing.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) remains a major threat to peace and security in Central Africa. More than 440,000 people have been displaced across the r…
At the outset, I join others in welcoming Mr. Valentin Inzko to the Council. We appreciate his concise and pointed briefing.
We would like to offer some observations on the challenges that lie ahead for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
First, while we welcome the relatively calm and stable security environ…
At the outset, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the President of the General Assembly, His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Yury Fedotov, for their insightful…
At the outset, my delegation would like to express its sincere appreciation to the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Honourable Judge Sang- Hyun Song, for his comprehensive report on the activities of the Court in the past year (see A/67/308). In particular, my delegation high…
At the outset, I would like to thank both coordinators, Ms. Holly Koehler of the United States of America and Ambassador Henrique Valle of Brazil, for their remarkable work in completing the difficult negotiations on the draft resolutions that have been introduced in the General Assembly today (A/66…
Africa’s development is the key to promoting global peace and prosperity on a sustainable basis. Embracing Africa in the process of political, economic and social development will therefore be a core challenge for the international community as a whole.
In that regard, the Republic of Korea welcome…
