The phrase "in making this statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of expressing or declaring something formally.
Example: "In making this statement, I wish to clarify my position on the matter."
Alternatives: "in expressing this point" or "in delivering this message."
I do not know your intent in making this statement, but under one interpretation it can be seen as an attempt to intimidate a federal law enforcement official in the performance of his official duties".
In making this statement, Clinton was echoing a foreign-policy playbook that has ruled Washington for decades, and that Obama told Goldberg he was proud to have broken with.
In making this statement, we want to remind the world that Omar Ossam Binladin, the fourth-born son of our father, always disagreed with our father regarding any violence and always sent messages to our father, that he must change his ways and that no civilians should be attacked under any circumstances.
"In making this statement today," he said, "I have had to balance the imperative of informing the House and the public at the earliest opportunity, whilst at the same time ensuring that when I did so the appropriate safeguards were in place to protect the public, including in relation to bank accounts.
What makes the statement that water is wet true is not a structural correspondence between it and a fact about water, but that we have something that justifies us in making this statement.
"My purpose in making this statement is to reclaim my identity," Paige Carnes, 24, wrote to the Los Angeles Times.
In fact, after making this statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, DNI McConnell had to retract it.
"I am making this statement today in advance of the hearing of the FA disciplinary charge because I feel the FA, in pursuing charges against me where I have already been cleared in a court of law, have made my position with the national team untenable.
By making this statement -- in Washington, D.C. no less -- Ban was tacitly aligning himself with the American (and Western) position on Libya.
In making this stand-out statement, Clegg is probably following the strategy that will guide the Lib Dems in the runup to the next general election.
"Both sides have assumed a certain amount of risk in making this trade," Williams said in a statement.
