| Date | 8 January 2007 |
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| Started | 10:00 |
| Ended | 12:25 |
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| President: |  | Mr. Churkin Russia |
(The Presidency changes each month to the next member in alphabetical order) | |||
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| Members: |  | Mr. Verbeke Belgium |
 | Mr. Wang Guangya China |
 | Mr. Ikouebe Congo |
 | Mr. Lacroix France |
 | Nana Effah-Apenteng Ghana |
 | Mr. Jenie Indonesia |
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 | Mr. Mantovani Italy |
 | Mr. Arias Panama |
 | Mr. Voto-Bernales Peru |
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 | Mr. Al-Bader Qatar |
 | Mr. Burian Slovakia |
 | Mr. Kumalo South Africa |
|
 | Sir Emyr Jones Parry United Kingdom |
 | Mr. Wolff United States |
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Expression of welcome to the new members of the Security Council and of thanks to the outgoing members
The President
As this is the first meeting of the Security Council this year, I should like to extend my very warm wishes for a fruitful new year to all members of the Council, the United Nations and the staff of the Secretariat.
On behalf of the Council, I welcome the new members: Belgium, Indonesia, Italy, Panama and South Africa. We all look forward to their active participation in the work of the Council. I should also like to take this opportunity to express the Council's deep gratitude to the outgoing members -- Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and the United Republic of Tanzania -- for their important contributions to the work of the Council.
Expression of thanks to the retiring President
The President
I should like to pay tribute, on behalf of the Council, to Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Permanent Representative of Qatar, for his service as President of the Security Council for the month of December 2006. I am sure that I speak for all members of the Council in expressing deep appreciation to Ambassador Al-Nasser for the great diplomatic skill with which he conducted the Council's business last month.
Expression of welcome to the Secretary-General and tribute to the outgoing Secretary-General
The President
On behalf of the members of the Security Council, I should like to welcome the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, who is taking part in a formal meeting of the Council for the first time in his new capacity. Let me express the hope that the Council will establish the closest and most productive cooperation with the new Secretary-General in carrying out its primary responsibility for strengthening international peace, security and stability.
We should support the Secretary-General's already expressed intention to jointly find ways to resolve current international problems through the collective efforts of all States Members of this universal Organization. We cannot fail to agree with Mr. Ban that no single individual, including the Secretary-General himself, nor any single State, even with the most abundant resources and power, can resolve those problems. Their resolution can be achieved only by strengthening multilateral cooperation and enhancing the role and the effectiveness of United Nations activities, including the activities of the Security Council.
I should like to take this opportunity to express gratitude and pay tribute to Mr. Kofi Annan, who carried out his duties as Secretary-General over the course of many years in a dignified manner.
I now give the floor to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon.
The Secretary-General
Thank you very much, Mr. President, for those kind words. I am honoured to be here, and I thank the President of the Security Council, His Excellency Ambassador Churkin, for this opportunity to meet with the members of the Council in this historic Chamber.
As this is my first meeting with you, let me pay tribute to all Council members and extend, in this new year, my best wishes to all of you for a most successful 2007. In particular, let me acknowledge the presence of the new members, namely, Belgium, Indonesia, Italy, Panama and South Africa, which joined the Council at the same time as I joined the Organization. We have much to learn together.
Allow me to assure all of you of my deep sense of mission, duty and dedication as I assume this high office. You know, perhaps better than anyone else, that I do so at a daunting time in world affairs. The international community faces a range of challenges, from Darfur to the Middle East, and other crises that trouble our world, from defending human rights to the need to move forward in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
I look forward to working closely with the Security Council to ensure that the Organization lives up to the considerable expectations that the international community places on us. As the Council considers the perspectives of the Member States on threats to international peace and security, I am here to listen to all of you.
The President
I thank the Secretary-General for his statement.
Adoption of the agenda
Threats to international peace and security
The President
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 its prior consultations.
Mr. Lacroix (France)
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| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in |
| 194 if __name__ == "__main__": |
| 195 pathpart = os.getenv("PATH_INFO") |
| 196 maintrunk(pathpart) |
| 197 |
| 198 |
| maintrunk = <function maintrunk>, pathpart = '/securitycouncil/meeting_5615/highlight_S-RES-1540(2004)' |
| /data/vhost/www.undemocracy.com/docs/trunk.py in maintrunk(pathpart='/securitycouncil/meeting_5615/highlight_S-RES-1540(2004)') |
| 138 elif pagefunc == "scmeeting": |
| 139 LogIncomingDB(hmap["docid"], "0", referrer, ipaddress, useragent, remadeurl) |
| 140 WriteHTML(hmap["htmlfile"], hmap["pdfinfo"], "", hmap["highlightdoclink"]) |
| 141 |
| 142 elif pagefunc == "sctopics": |
| global WriteHTML = <function WriteHTML>, hmap = {'docid': 'S-PV-5615', 'highlightdoclink': 'S-RES-1540(2004)', 'htmlfile': '/home/undemocracy/undata/html/S-PV-5615.html', 'pagefunc': 'scmeeting', 'pdfinfo': <pdfinfo.PdfInfo instance>, 'scmeeting': '5615'} |
| /home/undemocracy/unparse-live/web2/unpvmeeting.py in WriteHTML(fhtml='/home/undemocracy/undata/html/S-PV-5615.html', pdfinfo=<pdfinfo.PdfInfo instance>, gadice='', highlightth='S-RES-1540(2004)') |
| 322 if dclass == "spoken": |
| 323 if not gadice or agendagidcurrent == gadice: |
| 324 WriteSpoken(gid, dtextmu, councilpresidentnation) |
| 325 elif dclass == "subheading": |
| 326 if agendagidcurrent and (not gadice or agendagidcurrent == gadice): |
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| 69 print '</cite>' |
| 70 |
| 71 print dtext[mspek.end(0):] |
| 72 |
| 73 print '</div>' |
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