This year’s report of the Secretary-General again contains an impressive overview of the manifold activities of the Organization. I should like to use the discussion of this “state of the Organization” report to advance a number of ideas of a general nature.
We all know, or should know, that the Or…
As we come to the conclusion of our debate on agenda item 37, I wish to make a few comments in my personal capacity as Coordinator of the informal consultations that were conducted in conformity with the procedure set out in resolution 48/162, “Further measures for the restructuring and revitalizati…
Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on the effectiveness you have shown in your conduct of the affairs of the Security Council as its President for the month of December.
By the presidential statement issued last 4 November, the Security Council decided to enhance the possibilities of c…
It is indeed a sad reality that the global need for humanitarian emergency assistance is more urgent today than it has ever been. More than 30 million people in countries in Asia, Africa, the Caucasus, the former Yugoslavia and Central America are in dire need of emergency assistance. They are the u…
Austria welcomed the submission of the Secretary-General’s report “An Agenda for Development”. Today we join others in expressing appreciation of the concrete recommendations that have been presented, which, we understand, are based on that report. The new document contains many thought- provoking, …
At the outset, I would like to take this opportunity to commend Egypt for its outstanding organizational efforts and its warm hospitality during the International Conference on Population and Development, held in September 1994.
We express our sincere appreciation to Mrs. Nafis Sadik and the member…
Let me first of all pay tribute to the way in which the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations, Ambassador Richard Butler of Australia, has managed to guide the Committee through the not always easy process of finding consensus on ways and means of c…
Madam President, I should like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of November.
Austria has a long-standing tradition and active engagement in United Nations peace-keeping activities. We thus are deeply interested in effective cooperation and a clos…
War, aggression, human suffering and grave violations of human rights continue to
Numerous earlier attempts to bring about an effective cease-fire and to alleviate the intolerable humanitarian situation have again and again raised high hopes among the suffering people in Bosnia and Herzegovina; all…
Austria highly appreciates the fact that this report of the Security Council to the General Assembly, like the last one, was introduced by the Member State currently holding the presidency of the Council. This follow-up to the initiative taken by the delegation of Brazil during its presidency in Oct…
On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Youth and Family of Austria, which is responsible for the preparation and
Austria was among those States which supported Poland’s initiative of launching an International Year of the Family at the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly in 1989…
Before commenting on the comprehensive, informative and focused report which was presented to this General Assembly by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), I should like to take this opportunity to express sincere thanks and great appreciation to Mr. Hans Blix for h…
For the second time in recent years the General Assembly is considering the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council.
Since last year’s debate the Working Group of the whole has had an extensive exchange of views. During the general debate of th…
Allow me to congratulate the President sincerely on his election to preside over the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly. I am particularly pleased to see a representative of a French-speaking African country occupy this important position. We trust that the forty-ninth session will, under h…
The Austrian delegation is very pleased to be able to participate in this resumed forty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, which is once again dealing with the very important agenda item, "Law of the sea". I should like, first of all, to express my delegation’s most sincere appre…
This is a great day for the United Nations. A dream has come true at long last.
As already stated by the Chairman of the Group of Western European and Other States speaking on behalf of all members of the Group and the President of the European Union, we warmly welcome the return of a democratic an…
Mr. President, let me first thank you for the exemplary way in which, on this and other subjects, you conduct the work of the Council, taking care also of the interests of non-member States as far as channels of communications are concerned.
For the last two weeks new acts of aggression by the Bosn…
Austria enjoys close and friendly relations with all States members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. We share the understanding, as expressed by the Presidency of the European Union and by the Nordic States, that the granting of observer status is a procedural decision without effect on th…
A year has passed since the General Assembly last discussed the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In these 12 months the situation has certainly not improved, but rather has deteriorated dramatically. Despite intensive and ongoing efforts, in particular within the framework of the International C…
Less than three months ago, on 24 September, we had the privilege of hearing the President of the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC), Mr. Nelson Mandela, addressing the Special Committee against Apartheid from this very rostrum on the progress in South Africa’s transition.
Mr. Mandela …
