A/64/PV.3 SC
64
Session
| Draft symbol | A/64/PV.3 |
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Russia
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United States
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United Kingdom
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China
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France
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Vote Recorded Vote — S/PV.6191
Speeches following this vote (20)
The Secretary-General
This is a historic moment — a moment offering a fresh start towards a new future. I extend a warm welcome to President Obama. We salute his leadership.
This is the first Security Council summit on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. I have long advocated a stronger role for the Security Council. This was a major element of the five-point nuclear disarmament plan I announced in October las…
The President
I thank the Secretary-General for his statement.
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Óscar Arias Sánchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, to take the floor.
President Arias Sánchez (spoke in Spanish): I am grateful for the opportunity to say a few words in a place so emblematic of international order in the nuclear age. The Security Council is the product of a mixture of stupor and hope, t…
The President
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Stjepan Mesić, President of the Republic of Croatia, to take the floor.
President Mesić (spoke in Croatian; English text provided by the delegation): It is a great honour for me to present, on behalf of the Republic of Croatia, our views on the issue that has been put on the agenda of today’s meeting.
I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the United States an…
The President
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, to take the floor.
President Medvedev (spoke in Russian): I expect that the current meeting of the Security Council, convened on the initiative of United States President Barack Obama, will help address many problems facing the international community, first and foremost in the sphere of nuclear no…
The President
I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, President of the United Mexican States.
President Calderón Hinojosa (spoke in Spanish): Mexico enthusiastically welcomes the convening by the United States of this very special meeting of the Security Council on nuclear disarmament and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Mexico is convinced that global peace a…
The President
I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria.
President Fischer: Today, the Security Council pronounces its commitment to a world without nuclear
weapons. For more than half a century, this goal has been pursued by concerned citizens and political leaders around the world. The international community has undertaken efforts to contain the…
The President
I now invite the President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, His Excellency Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet, to take the floor.
President Nguyen Minh Triet: Viet Nam welcomes the initiative taken by President Barack Obama of the United States, President of the Security Council for September 2009, to convene this Security Council summit on nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament.
The twenti…
The President
I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda.
President Museveni: I will not read out my statement, for I would then repeat what other leaders have said. Instead, I will make four points.
First, I thank President Obama for convening this special meeting of the Security Council to discuss this very important topic.
Secondly, it is clear …
The President
I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Hu Jintao, President of the People’s Republic of China.
President Hu Jintao (spoke in Chinese): The current international security environment is complex and fluid. Nuclear proliferation remains a pressing issue and nuclear disarmament a long and arduous task.
To create a safer world for all, we must first and foremost remove the threat of nuclear war.…
The President
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, to take the floor.
President Sarkozy (spoke in French): France fully supports your initiative to hold this meeting, Mr. President, as well as the efforts you have made with Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals. However, let us speak frankly. We are here to guarantee peace. We are right to talk about the future. But t…
The President
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso, to take the floor.
President Compaore (spoke in French): Today’s Security Council meeting is addressing a major issue concerning current challenges in the area of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. This is a timely meeting in the light of the numerous enormous potential risks for the planet’s destruction. I would…
The President
I now invite His Excellency The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to take the floor.
Mr. Brown
With the unanimous agreement today, under the leadership of President Obama, and with the great speeches that have been made around this table, we are sending a united, unequivocal and undivided message across the world today that we, as leaders of nuclear-weapon States and non-nuclear-weapon States, are together committed to creating the conditions for a world free from nuclear weapons.
Today’s…
The President
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan, to take the floor.
Mr. Hatoyama
At the outset, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to President Obama for his timely initiative to hold this meeting.
On 6 and 9 August this year, I visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki and spoke in person with atomic bomb survivors and their secondand third-generation descendants. I cannot help feeling choked with emotion at the fact that just two atomic bombs claimed more than 200,000 lives…
The President
I now invite His Excellency Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey, to take the floor.
Mr. Erdoğan
It gives me great pleasure to be here today. Let me at the outset extend my sincere thanks to President Obama for his initiative to convene this Security Council summit focusing on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, as well as nuclear safety and security. The summit gives us an opportunity to discuss these issues, which require global attention and attention at the highest level. Those fa…
Mr. Shalgham
At the outset, allow me to express the appreciation of the Libyan delegation for the Council’s initiative in holding this summit and for the United States delegation’s preparation of the draft resolution we just voted upon (resolution 1887 (2009)).
My country undertook an historic initiative when it voluntarily ceased production of the nuclear bomb it was on the verge of producing. In so doing, …
The President
I shall now give the floor to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, in accordance with rule 39 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Council.
Mr. ElBaradei: Mr. President, thank you for inviting me to address this timely, and I hope groundbreaking, summit. I would like to thank you, Sir, for taking this courageous initiative, an initiative …
The President
There are no other speakers inscribed on my list.
I want to thank all the participants for their contributions to this meeting. My thanks go particularly to all the distinguished heads of State and Government, the Secretary-General and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The statements that we heard today, I think, affirm our commitment to a difficult but achievable g…
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