As one of the most mined countries in the world, Angola shares the deep concern of the international community with respect to the use of anti-personnel landmines, taking into account not only the loss of innocent civilians but also the obstacle landmines present to reconstruction, development
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On behalf of the Republic of Angola, allow me first to congratulate the President, Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, on his election to preside over the fifty-second session of the General Assembly.
Allow me also to congratulate the outgoing President, Ambassador Razali Ismail, on the excellent work he perfor…
My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for the report contained in document A/51/540 and congratulates the Department of Humanitarian Affairs for its role in the coordination of our national mine action programme.
My Government attaches great importance to the question of mine clearance and has…
We are pleased to see Minister Mudenge here and to have heard his brilliant statement. We are also pleased to be here ourselves in order to join our voice to those of other delegations in addressing the situation in Angola.
Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as Preside…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate Mr. Ismail Razali on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session, which is being held at a particularly difficult juncture. I am, however, persuaded that his personal attributes as well as his proven diplomatic experience will e…
First and foremost, I should like to thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to address the members of the Security Council in order to present the views of the Government of the Republic of Angola on the current stage of the development of and the prospects for the peace process under way in my countr…
We are awaiting our Ambassador, who has just arrived from Angola and should be here any minute. I apologize to you, Mr. President. By the end of the meeting he should be here to speak on behalf of my Government.
The next speaker is the representative of Brazil. I invite him to take a place at the C…
I begin by congratulating you, Sir, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola and on my own behalf, on your assumption for February of the presidency of this important United Nations body, which bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace and international security.
Let me…
On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola, I should like to congratulate all the members of the Fifth Committee on the adoption by consensus of the draft resolution that has now become resolution 49/227. We are particularly grateful to all the countries which, in one way or another, have…
I am particularly pleased to be able to address the Council at this time, when the situation in Angola is calm.
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola and on my own behalf, on your assumption this month of the presidency of …
I should like first to express my delegation’s appreciation to the Secretary-General for his report and to Mr. Peter Hansen, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for his statement and the information he has given us.
My delegation also associates itself with the statement of the re…
I am asked to express myself in an official language of the United Nations. Hence I shall try my hand at French, and I crave your customary indulgence if I make any mistakes in speaking a language I do not often use.
I do not have a long statement to make. I am here more or less by chance because w…
Please allow me to begin by congratulating Mr. Amara-Essy, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola, on my own behalf and on behalf of my delegation, on his election to the presidency of this forty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly. We are fully convinced that his dip…
It is with great pleasure that my delegation is intervening in this meeting devoted to the consideration of the last report of the Special Committee against Apartheid. Angola welcomes the return of South Africa to the General Assembly, and warmly congratulates its delegation, led by the Foreign Mini…
I wish first of all, to express my delegation’s appreciation for the Secretary-General’s report on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations and to congratulate Under-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on the excellent presentation of the document.
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First of all, Sir, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola and on my own behalf, I congratulate Ambassador Insanally
To Mr. Stoyan Ganev, his predecessor, I should like to express my sincere gratitude for his exemplary and unselfish manner of directing the forty-seventh session of the…
A few days ago, we had the legitimate satisfaction of learning that the international com- munity had elected to the presidency of the thirty- ninth session of the General Assembly a remarkable African diplomat and worthy representative Qf Zam- bia. Mr. President, while this choice testifies to the …
I ~nould like to convey to the Government and the people ofAlgeria the deep syml?attly and solidarity of the Government of the People's Republic of Angola for the tragic loss of life and for the destruction caused by the earth- quake in El Asnam. A catastrophe of that magnitude affects the entire na…
With regard to the draft resolution on Guam, my delegation has joined in the consensus which has emerged, convinced that the general principles con- tained in it can help the people of that Territory freely to exercise their right to self-determination.
56. However, my delegation wishes to note its…
