I would first like to congratulate our colleague, the Uruguayan Minister Didier Opertti, on his election to the presidency of our General Assembly.
I would also like to associate myself with the statement made by our colleague, Mr. Wolfgang Schüssel, who spoke on behalf of the European Union. My co…
I should also like to congratulate you, Sir, on your reassumption of the presidency of the Security Council.
My delegation would at the outset like to express its full support for the statement made by delegation of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.
Belgium welcomes the reactivat…
The European Union would like first of all to thank the coordinator for this item in the Fifth Committee, Mr. Carlos Dante Riva of Argentina, and the Chairman of the Fifth Committee, Ambassador Chowdhury of Bangladesh, for their efforts to produce consensus texts for draft resolutions on the program…
I would like to pay tribute to the Secretary-General for his efforts in preparing and presenting a month and a half ago the report we are considering today in the General Assembly.
Everyone will agree that this document is of indisputable interest. The description of the activities of the United Na…
Two years ago this Assembly adopted for the first time a resolution formally recognizing the cooperation between the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation (ACTC) and the United Nations. The resolution inaugurated a new partnership, which we welcomed. The ACTC then opened an office at the Uni…
At the outset, allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate Minister Udovenko, our colleague from Ukraine, on his election as President of this session of the General Assembly and to express my most sincere thanks to Ambassador Razali of Malaysia for the invaluable work he helped us achieve dur…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to express its appreciation to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Mr. Antonio Cassese, for the presentation of its third annual report, which gives an exhaustive and clear overview of the work of the Tribunal from 31 Ju…
It was with sadness that we learned of the death of Ambassador Ahmed Zaki, the Permanent Representative of Maldives. He held many important political functions, including Prime Minister in several of his country’s Governments. He had a distinguished career in multilateral diplomacy and in Brussels w…
For three years now our Working Group has been considering all aspects of the reform of the Security Council. Thanks to the active participation of Member States, under the wise guidance of our two Vice- Chairmen, many proposals have been made and lengthy discussions have been held.
Allow me to rem…
As the General Assembly considers the report on the work of the Organization, for which I thank the Secretary-General and the Secretariat, I wish to emphasize some of the topics that my Government considers especially important.
First of all, I wish to confirm that we fully endorse the Secretary-Ge…
The opening of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly, under the presidency of Ambassador Razili, takes place at the very moment a large number of States have entered into new commitments on the long road to nuclear disarmament. Our signature, this very morning, of the Comprehensive Nuclear…
Belgium would like to concur with the statement by the Permanent Representative of Ireland, who spoke on behalf of the European Union.
Belgium remains deeply concerned by the situation in Burundi. The recent coup d’état was rejected by the international community. Aware of the possible regional rep…
At your request, Sir, I had the honour to preside on 20 June over the organizational session of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s.
In its resolution 50/1…
As it does every year, the General Assembly is considering the report of the Security Council. The report before us today covers the Council’s activities from June 1994 to June 1995. This voluminous report attests to the intensity of the activities of the Security Council and will prove useful for t…
Exactly two years ago, during its forty-eighth session, the General Assembly established a Working Group to consider all aspects of a reform of the Security Council and an increase in its membership.
During those two years, the Working Group accomplished an important task — all are agreed on that —…
Belgium is happy to be able to sponsor the draft resolution on multilingualism, which the representative of France just presented today. We feel, indeed, that this matter is an important one. Belgium is not only among the 44 countries that speak French; it is itself a multilingual country. Belgium i…
Today the General Assembly has before it the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization covering this past year. First of all, I would like to pay tribute to the efforts made by the Secretary-General and his staff in preparing this undeniably useful document. As
As I see it, th…
Madam President, may I join those who have already congratulated you on your assumption of the presidency for this month. May I also thank the outgoing President of the Council. Our thanks also go to the delegations which took the initiative that has resulted in our being here today.
Without wishin…
May I begin by wholly associating myself with the statement made by the representative of Germany on behalf of the European Union, who rightly emphasized the humanitarian aspect and urgency of assistance in mine clearance.
Two world conflicts left many regions in Belgium infested by mines and other…
