I thank you, Sir, and your delegation for organizing this important debate. Allow me also to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Her Excellency Ms. Amina Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Kenya; and His Excellency Ambassador Smail Chergui, Commissioner for Pe…
At the outset, let me thank the facilitators, the Permanent Representatives of the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Latvia, for their commendable leadership in bringing to life the document on the overall review of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society.
The United Nati…
At the outset, Rwanda thanks President Lykketoft for convening this important meeting. My intervention will focus on the assistance to the survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
As members are aware, each year in April, the international community joins the Rwandan people in remembering …
I thank you, Sir, for inviting Rwanda to be a part of this debate. At the outset, I would like to thank Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; Judge Vagn Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Judge Theodor Meron, Preside…
At the outset, let me congratulate the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, the African Union Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Peer Review Mechanism, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Development Bank for a successful A…
I also wish to thank the Presidents of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for having presented their respective reports (see A/69/225, A/69/206 and A/69/226…
I thank the President for organizing this important and timely meeting.
My country aligns itself with the statements made by the representatives of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Lesotho, who spoke on behalf of the Group
of 77 and China and the Group of African States, respectively (see A/…
I would like to thank the President for organizing today’s meeting. I also thank Mr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil, Chair of Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), for his statement. Allow me also to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Ranko Vilović, former Permanent Representa…
I thank you, Madam President, for allowing me to present the views of Rwanda on this important topic. Rwanda values this meeting, in which we are afforded the opportunity to consider whether the international criminal system in place has met the expectation of ensuring accountability.
With regard t…
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, for convening this important meeting. I also take this opportunity to thank
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, for his commitment to this critical issue, and to commend the United Nations Office o…
