The horrifying magnitude of the terrorist attacks of 11 September requires the international community to become fully conscious that international terrorism constitutes a very grave threat to all humanity and the security of all.
Unanimously and most vigorously, the General Assembly reiterated las…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia — and the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turkey, as well…
Mr. President, I have the honour to take the floor on behalf of the European Union.
To begin with, we would like to thank you and Ambassador Valdés for all your efforts to ensure that we get a resolution on the revitalization of the General Assembly and improving its efficiency, to be found in docu…
I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the European Union. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia — and the associated countries of Cyprus, Malta and T…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia — and the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turkey,…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turkey, …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union, which welcomes the general elections in the Republic of the Fiji Islands to be held in late August 2001. The European Union is deeply committed to the return of constitutional democracy to Fiji. As elsewhere in the world, the peace and well…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — and the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turk…
I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the European Union. The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — and the associated countries Cyprus, Malta and Turkey, as well as the membe…
At the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001, the European Union welcomed the endorsement by the General Assembly of this Programme of Action, which is very complete and of fundamental importance. Throughout this process, our goal h…
Belgium fully endorses the statement made by the Permanent Representative of France on behalf of the European Union. My delegation has also taken note of the concern he expressed on behalf of France. Like him, we think that this concern is covered in the draft resolution before us.
I have asked to …
Belgium fully endorses the statement just made by the Spanish delegation on behalf of the European Union. Nevertheless, I wanted to speak today, given the importance of the diamond trade for my country and our active participation in the Kimberley Process since its inception.
I would first of all v…
Mr. President, let me begin by thanking you for having organized this debate. I would also like to thank your predecessor, Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab, and Ambassadors Dahlgren and De Saram for the excellent work they accomplished during the previous session of the General Assembly. We hope that this …
I commend the excellent report of the Secretary-General that the General Assembly is considering today.
Before turning to several points of substance, I would like to emphasize what my country believes is the major conclusion of the Millennium Summit. This is that — despite the criticisms regularly…
Mr. President, I should first of all like to congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I wish you every success in this task which is both difficult and inspiring.
Allow me to include in this tribute the Secretary- General who has a cruc…
Allow me first to thank the Secretary-General for the report he presented for this historic meeting. It is an excellent report, and the report that we needed. Not only does it describe the major challenges, but above all it also sets out clear and precise objectives. Belgium fully supports it. My co…
I wish first of all to thank you, Sir, for organizing this debate. I know that this was not a self-evident decision and that you gave careful consideration to the best way to lend fresh impetus to discussions which, we are obliged to admit, have not to date produced much by way of concrete results.
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I should like first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly and to thank you for having accepted the weighty task that you will be carrying out during this session. We also wish to express our best wishes to your country, Namibia, which you so ably
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The results of the work of the fourth year of the work of the Working Group, as can be seen from the report submitted to the General Assembly, are substantial. For four years, under the leadership of Ambassador Jayarama and Ambassador Breitenstein, whose competence, objectivity, patience and self-sa…
I, too, should like to thank the Secretary-General for drafting and introducing on 21 September the report before us today.
The decision of the Secretary-General to introduce the report in plenary before the beginning of the general debate
The document is of unquestioned interest. The description …
