I would like first to express the sincerest gratitude of the United Arab Emirates to the President of the General Assembly for his wise leadership of this important High-level Meeting. I would also like to express my appreciation to the Secretary-General and to United Nations agencies for their effo…
It is a great pleasure for me to congratulate you, Sir, on behalf of the Arab Group, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month; I wish you every success in your work. I would also like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of the United States of A…
I wish at the outset, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate you, Madam, and your
country on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. Our delegation also expresses its deepest appreciation to your predecessor, Mr. Jan Eliasson, for his efforts in guiding t…
Despite the fact that the era of colonization and foreign occupation has come to an end and that the age of the enforcement of international law and the principles of the Charter has begun, with peoples gaining their national independence and exercising their legitimate right to self-determination, …
On behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, I am honoured to express to Mr. Paul Badji, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to members of the Committee and to the staff of the Division for Palestinian Rights our appreciation for…
Allow me, at the outset and on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates to thank the President of the General Assembly for his valuable efforts in directing the work of the present session. I should also like to thank the Secretary-General for his valuable reports on this agenda item.
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At the outset, I would like, on behalf of the people and Government of the United Arab Emirates, to join the President and those who have spoken before me to express our sympathy and condolences to the Government and people of fraternal Jordan and to the families of the victims of the heinous terror…
At the outset, I should like, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, to thank President Eliasson for his valuable efforts in directing the activities of the current session. I am confident that he will ably lead our deliberations on this important agenda item. I also wish to expres…
At the outset and on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, I would like to thank His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General, for the valuable information contained in his report, which will certainly strengthen our debate on this item. I also would like to express our appre…
With regard to the statement made by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Iran’s occupation of the three islands of the United Arab Emirates, I would merely state that the United Arab Emirates, which has repeatedly expressed its principled and firm position on this national issue, w…
It is my pleasure to take this opportunity to
congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of this session, which coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations. We hope that this important session will provide a historic opportunity to review and evaluate the achievements of …
On behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, I would like to wish this important meeting every success. I would also like to associate myself with the statement made on behalf of the Group of 77 and China with regard to proposals that could benefit international sustainable development.
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Today we are observing the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, which aims at promoting and encouraging respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all human beings without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, language or religion. Before th…
Since the end of the Second World War, the Middle East has suffered from devastating wars and endless cycles of violence, tension and instability as a result of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, which would have been prevented if Israel had not been established in 1948. Since then, Israel has conti…
On behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, I would like to begin my statement by thanking the Chairman and members of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and the members of the Division for Palestinian Rights and of the Department of Publi…
At the outset, I would like, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, to extend my sincerest condolences to the brotherly people of Palestine, its leadership and the family of the late President Yasser Arafat. We reaffirm the support of the United Arab Emirates for the Palestinian people and leadershi…
I am taking the floor before the General Assembly to thank it for this special tribute to the head of State of the United Arab Emirates, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, our dear brother. He has returned to God, who called him back on the 19th day of Ramadan, that is 2 November 2004. …
On behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, it gives me great pleasure to start my statement by thanking the Secretary-General for his report and for the valuable information contained therein, which we expect to enrich our deliberations on this item.
Ten years ago, the General Assembl…
At the outset, I have the pleasure, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, to thank the former Chairman and Vice-Chairpersons of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Rela…
My country, which has always been keen to express its firm and principled position with regard to the national cause just referred to, must again reiterate its deep disappointment about the repeated claims made by the representatives of Iran annually in this Hall. Those claims contravene all histori…
