Committee Meetings

-Norway appeals to all States to become parties to the Rome Statute. Our ultimate goals remains universality, says ambassador Johan L. Løvald

-Norway believes that measures to make the individual Committees more effective, must come from within the Committees themselves, says councellor Merete Lundemo in a statement on the need for new working methods.

-The fundamental reason for the principles of protection of diplomatic representatives, is to protect the channels of communication between States, said adviser Åsmund Eriksen in the 6th Committee on behalf of the Nordic countries.  

Statement by  Ms. Mari Skåre  Counsellor  New York, 3 June 2004    Mr. Chairman, Norway wishes to thank you and the coordinator Mr. Ronald Elkhuizen for your good work. We also wish to thank the members of the secretariat, who with great patience have spent many late hours together with the committee. We are of the view that the Fifth Committee has been in a position to take fully informed decisions on new measures to strengthen security and safety of UN operations, staff and premises. Mr. Chairman, Norway’s position is to fully support the Secretary General’s budget p

    Statement by Ms. Mari Skåre Counsellor New York, 12 May 2004. Mr. Chairman, The blue UN flag is a symbol of peaceful cooperation. The image of our organization is the one of a helping hand. For more than 50 years the United Nations has contributed to world peace and development. Norway would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff of the United Nations. We admire your dedication, your courage and your tireless efforts to help those in need and to keep world order. To provide assistance and protection to the world’s neediest people UN staff is working in dangerous pl

    Statement by Ms. Mari Skåre Counsellor New York, 3 May 2004.  I would like to take this opportunity, Mr. Chairman, to express my delegation's satisfaction in seeing you back in the Chair. Let me also thank the Controller for his introduction of the Secretary-General’s reports on this agenda item and Mr. Kuznetsov for his presentation of the ACABQs report. We highly value the comments and recommendations of the ACABQ. Norway is strongly committed to peacekeeping. To maintain international peace and security is a core task of the United Nations. We, the member states, mus

Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations  General Debate. Statement by H.E. Mr. Johan L. Løvald Ambassador Permanent Representativ New York, 30 March 2004. Mr Chairman, UN peacekeeping is facing two substantial challenges. There is an increasing demand for UN-led operations, especially in Africa, as the Secretary-General also points out in his report. At the same time, UN peacekeepers and associated personnel are operating in a more threatening environment, often under complex, multidimensional mandates. We have to decide how we can best respond to these challenges. There are basicall