Federal Republic of Germany
Ambassador Günter Pleuger
Germany is currently serving a two-year term as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council, which expires on December 31, 2004. Günter Pleuger has served as Germany’s Permanent Representative to the UN since November 2002. The following is excerpted from the 5015th meeting of the UN Security Council on July 30, 2004, in New York.We welcome the fact that, after long and difficult negotiations, the Council has adopted this resolution. Negotiations are always a process of give and take, but in the end we believe that the signal the Council is now sending to Khartoum is unambiguous. The…