The delegation of Benin is eagerly taking part in the discussion of the agenda item that gathered us all here today entitled “Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies”. The Government of Benin takes the view that all St…
For more than 30 years, the brother people of Cuba has been subjected to a unilateral economic, commercial and financial embargo. The primary consequence of this unilateral measure has been the extreme impoverishment of the Cuban people, the subsequent deterioration in its living conditions, and, he…
It is with great pleasure that I address the General Assembly for the first time to express Benin’s position on item 44 of our agenda, entitled “Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s”. The delegation of Benin fully associates itself with the state…
Like the speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum, I wish to extend to you, Sir, the warm and sincere congratulations of the delegation of Benin to the President on his unanimous selection to preside over the work of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. This choice constitutes clear…
Under agenda item 20(b), I have the honour to introduce on behalf of the sponsors draft resolution A/50/L.41, entitled “Assistance for humanitarian relief and the economic and social rehabilitation of Somalia”.
The sponsors of the draft resolution are: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burund…
The delegation of Benin is not simply bowing to tradition by joining previous speakers in paying a friendly and well- deserved tribute to Ambassador Juan Somavía of Chile, the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee and the Main Committee of the World Summit for Social Development, held last March in …
Before taking up the agenda item before us, I should like to convey to our sister Cameroon delegation the most sincere condolences of the delegation of Benin on this morning’s air disaster at Douala international airport, which claimed many victims.
The General Assembly is now considering agenda it…
As a coastal State of the South Atlantic maritime region, Benin is deeply committed to the goals of the zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic established in 1986 by the terms of resolution 41/11. Thus, the consideration of agenda item 37 gives my delegation the pleasant opportunity to …
I have the honour to reconfirm to the Assembly the decision of the Government of Benin, already conveyed on various occasions by correspondence, to present Benin as a candidate for one of the non-permanent Security Council seats allocated to Africa for the biennium 1996-1997.
Diversity is a defining characteristic of all human groups. We must accept it and recognize it as a manifestation of freedom. In these times, when science, technology, communications and data processing are giving rise to profound changes in the very structure of knowledge and in our individual and …
Benin was very honoured to join the delegations of many other francophone countries in taking the initiative of submitting to the General Assembly this draft resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation. The delegation of Benin endorses t…
The delegation of Benin has no intention of entering into polemics with the representative of Guinea-Bissau, who has just made a value judgment relating to the form and the grounds of the right of reply that was exercised by my delegation on 10 October last. We will leave it to the General Assembly …
I am grateful for this opportunity to make a statement in exercise of my delegations right of reply, following the statement made this morning by the head of the delegation of Guinea-Bissau about the formal endorsement by the Group of African States of his country’s candidature for one of the non-pe…
You have the difficult and noble task, Sir, of guiding the work of the General Assembly at a time when the United Nations is celebrating 50 years of existence and approaching a decisive turning-point in its history. Your election to this high office is cause for joy and satisfaction in the delegatio…
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the subject of agenda item 32, should be easy enough to understand in the context of Chapter VIII of the Charter of this universal organization.
For that reason, many African delegations, including the delegation of…
The “Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s” is and should be for us Africans one of the main agenda items of this forty-ninth session of the General Assembly, over which you, Mr. President, a worthy son of Africa, have presided with so much skill …
Before getting to the heart of the matter before us, I should like to pay a sincere tribute to the people and the Government of Nicaragua for the warm welcome they gave my delegation during the Second International Conference of New or Restored Democracies in their beautiful capital, Managua, from 4…
As we are reminded in substance by draft resolution A/49/L.18/Rev.1 — submitted under agenda item 30 by the representative of Brazil — the zone of the South Atlantic, situated between Africa and South America, is of strategic and economic importance in the world.
Indeed, this region is not only an …
It is no easy task to speak on a subject, after more than 30 speakers have already done so, without creating the impression that one is simply parroting what has already been so well enunciated. I will try as best I can not to succumb to pointless repetition.
I should like first of all to offer my …
Coming to the rostrum after some excellent speakers, especially my brother, Ambassador Lamamra of Algeria, who spoke on behalf of the Member States of the Group of 77 and China, I shall deliver only a supplement to all the relevant observations and interesting proposals heard during this rich debate…
