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Bakoyannis

lines on the record: 84
first: 2006-03-27
most recent: 2009-02-27
sittings or episodes: 5
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“I now invite His Excellency Mr. Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States, to take the floor.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“I now invite His Excellency Mr. Markus Lyra, Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, to take the floor on behalf of the European Union.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“I give the floor to Her Excellency Ms. Jackie Wolcott Sanders, the alternative representative of the United States of America.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Basile Ikouebe, Permanent Representative of the Congo and representative of the Chairman of the African Union.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“I now call on His Excellency Mr. Kim Howells, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“I now call on Her Excellency Mrs. Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Jorge Taiana, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“In accordance with the understanding reached among the Council members, I wish to remind all the speakers to limit their statements to no more than four minutes, in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Delegations with lengthy statements are kindly requested to circulate the text in writing and to deliver a condensed version when speaking to the Chamber. I shall give the floor now to His Excellency Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al-Thani, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Qatar.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“The United Nations and Member States should promote the capacity-building of those organizations through the provision of human, technical and financial assistance if they really wish to develop an effective partnership. In that respect, the seventh high-level meeting that will take place immediately after this meeting, to which I have been invited as President of the Council to report on the findings and decisions of the Council, will focus on the implementation of the 10-year process of sustained capacity-building for African regional and subregional organizations. We are looking forward to the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations contribution to that effect, in accordance with the World Summit Declaration. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“The importance of this issue has been identified in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2006/590), prepared in response to resolution 1631 (2005), which emphasizes the need to clarify both the membership and the mandate of regional and other organizations, to make coordination more effective and ensure a clearer collective effort. We endorse his recommendations on that issue. In that respect, we have suggested in our concept paper some basic elements to be applied for the potential identification of regional and other organizations. We also support all other recommendations contained in the report. In conclusion, I would like to express our full support for all the efforts aiming at building the capacity of regional and other organizations.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“We believe that the time has come for greater clarity as regards a series of issues that will facilitate the shaping of the Vision of a global-regional mechanism for peace and security agreed by both the Security Council and the regional organizations. We need to identify regional and subregional agencies and to clarify the criteria on the basis upon which those agencies are distinguished, for the purpose of applying Chapter VIII of the Charter, from other 06-52873 international organizations. Such clarity will give real meaning to the envisaged global-regional mechanism, and should restore more authority to the Security Council and greater reliance on constitutionally delegated executive functions to genuine regional agencies under Chapter VIII of the Charter.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“For its part, the Security Council has conducted its own meetings with regional organizations and has developed an enhanced relationship with regional and subregional organizations, focusing on peace and security challenges such as conflict prevention and management, peacebuilding and counter-terrorism. However, despite those developments, many challenges remain to be addressed to make this relationship more substantive and operational. While Chapter VIII of the Charter refers to regional agencies and arrangements and sets forth the functional relationship with the Security Council - in Articles 52 and 53 - it is silent with regard to their constitutional relationship with the Security Council.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“Secondly, many important developments have taken place in this regard, particularly through the Secretary-General's convening of six high-level meetings that have been marked by a high level of attendance and [a] broadened substantive agenda. The meetings have identified an important set of modalities for cooperation on conflict prevention and for guiding principles in the area of peacebuilding. It is now important to ensure that there is more effective implementation of those principles in close coordination between the United Nations and international organizations.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“06-52873 First, in previous Security Council debates it was recognized that, given the nature of the new security threats, greater involvement by international organizations in conflict prevention and management, in cooperation with the Council, was required. We fully subscribe to that position. We believe that a greater role by regional agencies in the area of peace and security would not only lessen the burden of the Security Council in that field, but it would also increase the legitimacy of the Council through more balanced input into its decisions and deliberations from various regions with different cultural, religious and historical backgrounds.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“This debate provides a good opportunity to discuss the developments that have taken place recently in implementing resolution 1631 (2005), which was adopted last year under Romania's presidency of the Council. But most importantly, this meeting can stimulate an interesting discussion on the vision of creating a regional-global security mechanism. The report of the Secretary-General in response to resolution 1631 (2005) identifies challenges and opportunities to make the relationship with regional organizations more effective, and paves the way for the construction of a mechanism that will enable the world community to handle future threats and challenges in a more consistent and coordinated way. For our part, we would like to raise three issues that are relevant to the findings and recommendations of the report.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“We greatly appreciate his tireless efforts to bring increasing significance to the issue of the relationship and cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in maintaining peace and security. We fully share his stated vision of a mutually reinforcing regional-global mechanism for peace and security, which, in our View, will prove critical to effectively addressing future threats and security challenges in the twenty-first century. We strongly urge the next Secretary-General to continue those efforts and to further strengthen that partnership. I also wish to express my appreciation to the representatives of regional organizations for being here today to share with us their views and experiences on this most important subject.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“Members of the Council have before them document S/2006/590, which contains the report of the 2 Secretary-General entitled "A regional-global security partnership: challenges and opportunities". I should also like to draw the Council's attention to document S/2006/719, which contains a letter dated 6 September 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Greece addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting a background paper on the item under consideration. I wish to welcome the presence at this meeting of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Allow me to open this debate with the following introduction in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece. First of all, I wish to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General for his presence here today.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“Karel de Gucht, Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Mr. Vladimir Rushaylo, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States; Mr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Mr. Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization; and Mr. Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in the course of its prior consultations.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“As agreed in prior consultations, the Security Council is pleased to invite His Excellency Mr. Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Romania, to participate in this meeting in accordance with rule 37 of its provisional rules of procedure. As agreed in prior consultations, the Security Council is pleased to invite the following representatives of regional organizations to participate in this meeting in accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure: Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, representing the Presidency of the European Union; Mr. Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States; Mr. Lauro L. Baja, Chairman of the New York Committee of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Mr. Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States; Mr.”
2006-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5529 (2006) · source
“We must strive to create, as soon as possible, the necessary conditions for the genuine and earnest re-launching of a peace process for the achievement of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on all relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1397 (2002) and 1515 (2003), as well as on the Madrid terms of reference and the principle of land for peace, for the sake of the people in all of the region.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“It is in that spirit that we call upon all parties to set aside their fears and disappointments and, difficult as it might be, to make the necessary commitment and effort to overcome the current crisis and build a better future for their peoples. At this particularly critical juncture in the history of the Middle East, we must not lose sight of the bigger picture and allow ourselves to forget the suffering and the plight of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza. The question of Palestine, central to the whole Middle East conflict, should be addressed with the utmost urgency. As long as the Palestine issue remains unresolved, it is clear that there will be no peace in the region.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“Now that the end of hostilities is hopefully in sight, we stand ready, together with the rest of the international community, and especially the countries of the region, to help in the enormous effort for the reconstruction of a shattered country, the immediate return of refugees to their homes and, hopefully, the dawn of a new day over both Lebanon and Israel. It is in that respect that this resolution deserves our support and, even more important, deserves our commitment to work very hard in the coming days on the crucial steps that need to follow if we want our efforts to bring tangible results and not end in one more disappointing failure.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“We continue, though, to believe that, while preserving the right of self-defence, Israel must respect its obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law. We see today's resolution as a first, but very important, step towards a lasting and sustainable peace. We are fully aware that a lot remains to be done. We need to make sure that this resolution is fully implemented. The bloodshed has to stop, and it has to stop now. The bombings have to stop, and they have to stop now. The suffering of the civilians has to stop, and it has to stop now. Greece responded immediately to the enormous humanitarian effort under way in Lebanon. But the ongoing hostilities hamper our ability to reach those most in need and to alleviate their pain.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“It is therefore not conceivable that it would accept foreign occupation of any part of Lebanese national territory. Occupation by any foreign force, anywhere in the world, is not admissible in any way or on any pretext. It is imperative for the Lebanese Government to take effective and immediate control of Lebanese territory in its entirety through the withdrawal of the Israeli military forces and the deployment of the Lebanese army. It is also imperative to proceed, as soon as possible, with the delineation of the international borders of Lebanon, including Sheba'a farms. The Secretary-General, in presenting his proposals, should take into consideration the seven points of the Siniora plan. At the same time, Israel's legitimate security concerns are well understood and need to be properly addressed.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“The resolution we have just adopted here today is trying to do precisely that. It offers the basis for a political solution to this long-lasting - and, admittedly, extremely difficult and complex - problem. It also offers the framework for a political process with concrete goals and specific benchmarks and time frames. Full respect for the sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity of Lebanon is the first and foremost of those benchmarks. Security Council resolutions 425 (1978), 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006) must be fully implemented. After all, it is a matter of principle that all Security Council resolutions must be fully respected and properly implemented. In the past two years, the international community has done exceptional work in ridding Lebanon of any foreign presence.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“It only serves to breed more violence and to create a new generation full of hatred, devoid of hope and keen on revenge - a nurturing field for extremism and terrorism. The Middle East has been suffering from this never-ending cycle of vicious wars and unstable peace, broken promises, lost lives and unspeakable tragedy not for years, but for decades. History has proven time and again that neither victory on the battlefield nor blind violence against innocent civilians, neither suicide bombings nor Katyusha rockets, have ever solved, or ever will solve, the problems of the Middle East - or any other region for that matter. These are issues that need political solutions brought about through diplomatic means, in a spirit of compromise, mutual respect and acceptance.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“For the past month the world has borne witness to another tragic chapter in the history of the Middle East, an unbearable addition to the pain of that long-suffering region. The images of helpless children and mothers, wounded, sick and despondent victims on either side of the conflict, untold destruction and unimaginable pain, have haunted all of us. This has shown once more how much we, as an international community, have failed the hopes and dreams and aspirations of those people. Greece, from the very first moment of the outbreak of the current crisis, has called for an immediate ceasefire. War is not and cannot be the answer to anything. Violence has never solved any problem.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“We utterly condemn all attacks on MINUSTAH and on other international personnel, especially those with humanitarian tasks. The Security Council will soon consider the mandate and future role of MINUSTAH. For the time being, it suffices to assure the Haitian people that we remain committed to Haiti over the long term.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source
“The European Union, international financial institutions and other stakeholders must ensure that economic development is channelled to viable projects that will help create jobs and provide basic social services. Greece, for its part, will continue bilateral support in addition to the aid that we already channel through the European Union. Furthermore, on a bilateral basis, I have the pleasure to pledge today an amount of â‚¬100,000 in addition to the â‚¬100,000 that we contributed last year. At this point, I would be remiss if I did not express my sincere congratulations to the Secretary- General's Special Representative, Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdes, on a job well done. I would also like to express my Government's deep appreciation to all those countries that contribute troops and police to MINUSTAH.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source
“A secure and stable environment will be conducive to fostering economic development and to getting children off the streets and back to school. As we have all stated on numerous occasions, the Haitian people are the owners of their own future. However, Haiti cannot go it alone and will need considerable help from the international community to implement projects for economic development. We therefore call upon donors to do everything they can to help Haiti at this critical moment and to ensure not only a steady influx of financial aid, but also timely disbursements. The Haitian Government must, through the Interim Cooperation Framework, reassess assistance priorities and implement projects for long-term economic development that will sustain Haitians' faith in their new Government.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source
“Most notable, in this field, would be the reform of the Haitian national police and of the judicial system. As a new Haiti is gradually emerging, we must leave behind us the mentality and practices of the years of transition. From now on, the Haitian national police must not resort to extreme methods and must fully comply with internationally recognized standards of respect for human rights and due process. Impunity is an important issue that must also be addressed. National dialogue and political reconciliation must continue to be promoted. While it is true that new institutions are in the making, remnants of the old ways continue to abound. To that end, the disarmament of the armed bands that roam the country must definitely be completed.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source
“First, it is imperative that the second round of legislative elections, as well as the municipal and local elections, be conducted smoothly and take place on time. The next few weeks are extremely crucial, and neither the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) nor the Haitian national authorities should relax their vigilance. The transition of power at all levels, the swearing-in of the new President and the formation of a new Government must move ahead swiftly and unhindered. We urge all parties to remain engaged in the political process and to respect the outcome of the elections. Haiti's newly elected authorities will have the opportunity to focus their attention on the most immediate and important challenge facing the country: the creation of institutions that uphold the rule of law and protect human rights.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source
“For my part, I feel privileged to participate in this morning's deliberations, since the relations between my country and Haiti go back a long way, Haiti being the first country to recognize Greece after it gained its independence. Greece fully associates itself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union. After two long years, Haiti's transitional period is coming to an end. Democracy has prevailed once more. The Haitian people will soon have a new President, a new Prime Minister, a new Government, a new legislature and new municipal and local authorities. But above all, Haitians will have new hope for their future - a future that is theirs to build. The road that lies ahead is full of challenges.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source
“Allow me to begin, Mr. President, by welcoming your initiative to hold an open debate on the situation in Haiti at this critical juncture, near the end of the transitional period and at the dawn of new, and hopefully better, times. Your presence here underlines the importance that the international community attaches to efforts to stabilize the country and to help the Haitian people in their quest for peace and development. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome to our deliberations His Excellency Mr. Rene Garcia Preval, President-elect of Haiti, and to congratulate him on his election. In addition, I welcome my colleagues the Ministers for Foreign Affairs who are present at this debate.”
2006-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5397 (2006) · source