Albania is happy to sponsor draft resolution A/67/L.45 as introduced this morning by the representative of Hungary. I would like to thank Hungary for taking the initiative and for the excellent work done in presenting the text after having conducted a very smooth and effective process of negotiation…
Based on the mandate given by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to the Albanian chairmanship of the Council for the period from May to November 2012, I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/67/L.14/Rev 1, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States.
We have gathered at a special meeting today to commemorate the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, under the theme “Honouring the heroes, resisters and survivors”. For several centuries, millions of peop…
First, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the President of the General Assembly on his election. I wish him every success in leading the work of the Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I would like to express my gratitude to his predecessor for his invaluable contribution. May I…
I am compelled to exercise my right of reply after the comments made by the representative of Serbia in exercise of his right of reply. I profoundly disagree with what we heard.
It is a well known fact that Albania and Serbia disagree on the Kosovo issue, as was also witnessed
during the general d…
HIV/AIDS remains one of the most serious and worrying issues in the world today. Besides being a health issue, this scourge is also emerging as one of the great economic, social, security and development challenges of this century, with a dramatic and devastating impact on individuals, families and …
It is a special pleasure for me to address this audience today and to present to the General Assembly the recent developments in Albania, along with our challenges and achievements in terms of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
But before I do that, I would like to extend cordial gre…
We are pleased with the decision by the Republic of Serbia to withdraw the controversial and disruptive text of draft resolution A/64/L.65, which contained narrow objectives to instrumentalize the General Assembly and hinder the progress in international support for the Republic of Kosovo. We suppor…
On behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, I would like to extend our deepest condolences and express our full sympathy and solidarity to the people and the Government of Poland; to the families of President Kaczyński and First Lady Maria Kaczyńska; and to the families of other Polish leader…
Albania voted in favour of resolution 64/10 believing firmly that its call would bring the international community one step closer to ensuring full respect for human life and dignity and to the fulfilment of justice for those who lost their lives in the tragic events of Gaza and for those who are ge…
First, I join other delegations in expressing our appreciation for the work of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and their respective Presidents Judge Patrick L. Robinson and Judge Charles Michael Dennis Byron. We all agree that their work throughout the …
I am taking the floor to exercise my right of reply in response to the statement just made by the representative of Serbia.
The Republic of Kosovo is an undeniable reality, and we all know that, sooner or later, we will all have to accept it, despite the old-fashioned political rhetoric that, not l…
I have the special pleasure today to extend to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the General Assembly, my congratulations on his excellent work in presiding over the sixty-fourth session of this Assembly. I would also like to thank his predecessor, Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, for his work in…
It is my honour and privilege to address this high-level meeting of this international body of dialogue and negotiation — a forum in which every day world affairs are taken into consideration with the aim of making the world a better place for all of humankind. It is a particular privilege to repres…
Each and every Member State has the right to operate within our current Charter-defined system and to use the rules of procedure, including even some loopholes, in order to clarify an issue, solve a dispute between parties, remedy a situation and/or seek an opinion. The International Court of Justic…
At the outset, I should like to join colleagues in expressing Albania’s appreciation to the President of the Assembly for organizing and chairing this important meeting, and to
the facilitator, Ambassador Rosenthal of Guatemala, for all his efforts and the results achieved.
Albania allies itself w…
The participation of so many delegations in this meeting testifies to the serious
challenge that our world is facing today, which cannot be met without our joint efforts and adequate resources at the national and international levels. Albania welcomes the approach of this meeting to bring together …
On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Albania, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to brief this august body on the progress made in our accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and on
the challenges that remain. I am confident that this event will be a useful learni…
It is my special pleasure to participate in this important thematic debate, which focuses on global climate change, one of today’s most challenging and threatening issues for humanity. I
would like to thank the United Nations for organizing this very important debate.
Climate change is a complex a…
