We should stop the firing. We should stop the shooting to give peace a chance, |
We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances to call upon the US authority and the present government of Iraq to review the legal status of the present court and to reallocate the present court outside Iraq, i.e. The Hague, Netherlands, |
We support an all-inclusive process and we had hoped that this electoral process ... would pull the Iraqis together, ... It has not worked as we had hoped, but we still urge the parties to work together and I believe the reversal by the parliament of the decision last night would help the process. |
We will ... develop measures to reinforce formal protection for whistle-blowers, ... I want to stress that I am fully committed to addressing the concerns that all of you have identified in this survey. |
We will be looking forward to taking steps for the longer term to ensure food security, |
We will be relying on Australian support and contribution as we would with other countries, |
We will take the measures to make sure poor and rich have access to the medications and the vaccines required, |
We would have preferred a stronger language in some parts of the text, |
we wouldn't be here now but we are caught in a stalemate. |
We've indicated quite clearly what the U.N. has achieved and has done since the passage of Resolution 1483. And we have also indicated and spelled out the areas where the U.N. can make further contributions. |
We've made a good start (in Afghanistan), but there are many hurdles ahead of us, |
We've shared with them where we stand, what we hope to do next and explained to them the state of play, |
well beyond the scope of the powers vested in the Great Council. |
were supposed to use force only in self-defense, or by a collective decision that it was necessary to use force in order to keep the peace. |
What do you do, for instance, if the peace you are trying to keep breaks down and large numbers of civilians are in danger of being massacred? I said we must all do our utmost not to allow such horrors, and especially such appalling failures by the United Nations, ever to happen again. |