The delegation of the Republic of Belarus has carefully studied the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the period under review and notes with satisfaction that it was prepared with a high degree of professionalism. We are grateful to the Director General of the Agency for hi…
The more remote the events of 50 years ago, including the end of the Second World War, become to us, the more we must ask ourselves what people have learned from that lesson. The General Assembly, which at its last session unanimously adopted a resolution entitled “Commemoration of the fiftieth anni…
First of all I wish to congratulate Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral on his election to the distinguished post of President of the General Assembly at its fiftieth, jubilee session. I am sure that his personal and professional qualities will serve as a solid guarantee that during this particularly import…
My delegation wishes to explain the position of the Republic of Belarus in favour of the decision of the Fifth Committee, adopted at its 66th meeting on the revised draft resolution of the Chairman of the Fifth Committee, submitted with oral amendments and subsequently issued as document A/C.5/49/L.…
We are firmly convinced that the adoption of the decision in the Fifth Committee's report in document A/49/821, reflects the spirit of cooperation and understanding shown by Member States in evaluating the full complexity of the situation of the Republic of Belarus, which is still in group B of the …
The Assembly has just adopted a very important resolution which determines the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations for 1995 to 1997.
We joined the consensus on this resolution for the following reasons.
Whenever the matter of the financial functioning o…
The number of sponsors of draft resolution A/49/L.49 attests to the breadth and topicality of the process of restoring democracies and forming new democracies and the global scope of this process. Belarus was among the sponsors of this draft resolution.
New and restored democracies are a comparativ…
More than a year has passed since the historic handshake between the leaders of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which brought a totally new dimension to the situation in the Middle East. Traditional stereotypes have been shattered, and there has been a radical change in the deeply …
My delegation regards the debate that is taking place in these high-level plenary meetings to consider ways of promoting and giving political impetus to the Agenda for Development as the culmination of the efforts in the first stage of the collective development of a new conceptual approach to a fut…
The Republic of Belarus is extremely concerned at the recent complications in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, we start from the premise that military measures will not help stabilize the situation in the Balkans and could have unforeseeable consequences.
Bearing all that in mind, my delegation wil…
I should like first, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Belarus, to express our gratitude to the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, Ambassador David Hannay, for his introduction of the report of the Security Council. Thanks to his statement, various asp…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus expresses deep gratitude to the Secretary-General for preparing and submitting to us the report on the work of the Organization for the past year (A/49/l). The report certainly contains an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the activities of the bodies o…
We listened with great interest to the very comprehensive report given by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Blix, and we have analysed the annual report on the activities of the Agency for 1993. We note with satisfaction that special attention was given by th…
The delegation of Belarus regards our current discussion on the question of equitable representation in the Security Council and the increase in its membership as a substantive stage on the way to resolving specific aspects of the problem. We believe that arriving at a consensus on the basis of an a…
Let me congratulate Mr. Amara Essy on his unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its forty- ninth session. This is both a tribute to his country’s contribution to the work of the Organization and an acknowledgement of his personal achievements in multilateral diplomacy.
Almost h…
I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the delegations of Ukraine and Belarus in explanation of vote after the consensus adoption of draft resolution A/C.5/48/L.13, "Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations", which is contained in the report (A/48/806) of …
The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) presented for consideration at this session of the General Assembly and the statement by the Director General of the Agency, Mr. Hans Blix, to which our delegation listened with great attention and interest, testify to the importance and th…
The Republic of Belarus attaches great importance to the Assembly’s discussions of the annual report of the Security Council. We note that, in recent years, consideration of this item has not been a mere formality, and this has made it possible for all States Members of the Organization to express t…
The delegation of Belarus would like to express to the Secretary-General its gratitude for his report on the work of the Organization (A/48/1). Not only does it give an appraisal of the current state of the world and information on the wide-ranging activities of the United Nations and its major orga…
I wish sincerely to congratulate the representative of Guyana on his unanimous election to the distinguished post of President of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. This is an expression of great respect for him and his country. I cannot fail to note the enormous amount of hard and co…
