Allow me to express my best wishes to you, Mr. President, and congratulate you on the manner in which you are conducting the Security Council. It reflects your personal and professional commitment to the search for consensual and pragmatic solutions which are characteristic of your country throughou…
Allow me first to express to you my sincere congratulations, Mr. President, on the manner in which you led the work of the important High-level Working Group. I also wish to congratulate the Vice-Chairmen of the Group, Ambassador Prakash Shah of India, Ambassador Hans Jacob Biørn Lian of Norway and …
Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your excellent leadership of the work of the Security Council. I also wish to congratulate
Allow me also to join the Council in expressing, on behalf of the Government and the people of Argentina, the strongest repudiation of the tragic a…
I wish to begin, Mr. President, by conveying to you our most respectful greetings. You represent a country that has long played a central role in international affairs. The end of the cold war has enhanced your country’s great capacity to have a decisive influence on events. For those reasons, and b…
The delegation of Argentina wishes to join in the congratulations expressed on the fulfilment of the task of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of the General Assembly on an Agenda for Development and on the adoption of the Agenda for Development. In this connection, we wish to make an interpretati…
As is stated by the Secretary-General in his recent report, the events of the past two weeks in Angola have been very encouraging. The inauguration of the Government of Unity and National Reconciliation on 11 April 1997 — with the appointment of four Ministers and
At this crucial time, the people o…
My thanks go to the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Mr. Wolfgang Hoffmann, for his presentation.
The Argentine Government expresses its satisfaction at the Agreement to Regulate the Relationship between the United…
The delegation of Argentina would like to comment on draft resolution A/55/L.11, which was just adopted and in whose favour we voted.
The Argentine Republic would like to point out that we understand that the expression “other entities”, which appears in operative paragraph 2 of this resolution, re…
I wish sincerely to thank the President of the Tribunal, Judge Laïty Kama, for his statement, which we deem historic.
We welcomed with satisfaction the first annual report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of …
This General Assembly debate is the culmination of a particularly fruitful year for the law of the sea. The Convention on the Law of the Sea received more than 100 ratifications this year, representing a wide spectrum of regions and interests. In this way the goal of universal acceptance of the law …
Once again the humanitarian crisis caused by the laying of anti-personnel landmines has led the General Assembly to speak out, with a view to finding agreed
We note with satisfaction that this year important progress has been made multilaterally, including the holding at Ottawa on 5 October of an i…
The Security Council is considering the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (UNSMIH). We view this with great satisfaction, as it would mean the culmination of a process leading to a lasting solution to the protracted and painful Haitian situation.
I wish first of …
We are participating at this stage of the debate in order to enjoy the opportunity to hear and reflect on the comments of the speakers who have preceded us. We approach this item with great respect. We sincerely believe that, with the conclusion of the cold war era, the conflict in the Middle East i…
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Nugroho Wisnumurti of Indonesia, for introducing the Council’s report to the General Assembly. I now wish to make some comments on what we see as one of the most important items on the agenda of this session of the…
On behalf of the Argentine people, allow me, as other speakers did yesterday, to share in the concern and anguish of the people of Honduras, more than 30,000 of whom — as we have heard — have been affected by the grave situation following upon the hurricane in their country.
My delegation is partic…
I address the Assembly at a time when the international community is engaged in seeking a solution to the extremely grave situation of the refugees in the Great Lakes region. This dramatic situation once again underscores the responsibility and the moral obligation that we all have to relieve the su…
My delegation is pleased to speak on agenda item 40, entitled “The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development”.
We have studied the report of the Secretary-General contai…
This is the second year that Argentina has voted in favour of the draft resolution contained in document A/51/L.15. This is because our principal objective, in addressing the question of Cuba, is to help in that country’s peaceful transition towards democracy, within the framework of the principles …
Allow me to begin by extending to the people and Government of India Argentina’s solidarity with them following the natural disaster they suffered recently.
Argentina is taking the floor to show its support for strengthening cooperation between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Natio…
Argentina is participating in this debate for three basic reasons. The first reason is that we believe that in doing so it is paying tribute to a very important sector of the United Nations, without whose substantial contribution practically no change would have been possible in the General Assembly…
