(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry

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(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative

Hadyn Parry Re engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom

See also Parry, British Digest, vol. 2B, 1967, pp. 585 605.

Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

(Signed) Emyr Jones Parry Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I have the pleasure to speak on behalf of the European Union.

First, Romania fully supports the European Union statement, to be delivered later by our colleague, Sir Emyr Jones Parry.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I have the honour also to speak on behalf of the European Union.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) The British Government welcomes this debate on the important issue of Security Council reform.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I have the honour also to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU).

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) Madam President, the presence of your Foreign Minister underlines the importance of this subject.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and those countries that have aligned themselves with this statement.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU) and those countries that have aligned themselves with this statement.

In that regard, I wish to note with appreciation the key role played by Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry of the United Kingdom and Ambassador Stafford Neil of Jamaica, Chairman of the Group of 77.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) I wish to extend my thanks to Alan Doss for his briefing and for the report of the Secretary General (S 2005 186), whose presence among us at this meeting is particularly welcome.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) Most important of all, the resolution we have unanimously adopted today responds to a request from the Government of Iraq, as set out by Prime Minister al Jaafari in his letter of 27 October.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) The United Kingdom voted against the draft Declaration on Human Cloning because of the reference to human life, which we consider can be interpreted as a call for a total ban on all forms of human cloning.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) Tonight, by this vote, the Security Council has acted to ensure accountability for the grave crimes committed in Darfur, and I hope to send a salutary warning to anyone intending to commit any further such atrocities.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) On behalf of the European Union and the countries that have aligned themselves with my statement, may I offer very sincere congratulations to you, Mr. President, to the Secretary General and to everybody in this room for what has just been achieved.

Mr. Jones Parry (United Kingdom), speaking on behalf of the members of the European Union and the other sponsors listed, as well as Australia, Andorra, Bulgaria, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Palau, Serbia and Montenegro and Switzerland, said that, in paragraph 5, the word sixty second should be replaced by sixty first .

Mr. Mitchell (Bahamas) I should like at the outset offer the condolences of The Right Honourable Parry Christie, Prime Minister of the Bahamas, as well as of the Government and the people of the Bahamas, to the people of the United States in connection with Hurricane Katrina, which claimed so many victims.

In a single year, there are 200 300 million cases of malaria and 50 100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So Why haven t we found a way to effectively kill mosquitos yet? Hadyn Parry presents a fascinating solution genetically engineering male mosquitos to make them sterile, and releasing the insects into the wild, to cut down on disease carrying species.

Sir Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom) Mr. President, I am particularly pleased to welcome you. I am grateful to the Secretary General for his report and to the Special Representative for his briefing, for his outstanding and, I think, impartial leadership of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and for the integrity that he brings to his work.

The United Kingdom's position on this issue is well known and was last set out in detail by the United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, in a written right of reply to the statement by His Excellency President Néstor Carlos Kirchner of the Argentine Republic in the High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on 14 September 2005.

Mr. Jones Parry (United Kingdom), speaking on behalf of the European Union the acceding countries Bulgaria and Romania the candidate countries Croatia and Turkey the stabilization and association process countries Albania, Serbia and Montenegro and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and, in addition, Iceland and the Republic of Moldova, said that the motion was a procedural device that undermined transparency and freedom of expression and should be rejected as a matter of principle.