The United Nations plays, and will continue to play, its part as an important tool for multilateral international cooperation, because no other international body has such multifaceted experiences, competencies and coordinating potential for accomplishing global tasks. For the United Nations to serv…
We have studied the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Organization (A/73/1), and we are pleased to see that a tremendous amount of work has been undertaken during the reporting period to make the United Nations more fit for purpose. We support the Secretary-General’s efforts t…
We live in paradoxical times, as optimism and pessimism equally characterize our lives. We recently adopted landmark documents, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. At the end of the year, the international community will give the green lig…
I would like to begin my statement at this event dedicated to Nelson Mandela, one of the most famous people ever to fight for Africa’s independence, with some of his own words: “It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.” It is no coincidence that our Pea…
Belarus greatly appreciates the support of the United Nations and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for our national efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Our vision of the fight against this scourge is clear and outlined in our State programme documents.
First of all, that m…
We would like to thank the Polish presidency for organizing what is a very timely open debate given the truly disastrous current international situation in various regions of the world. We are being forced to discuss the issue thanks to a lack of action on the part of States themselves, and first am…
We are truly grateful to you, Mr. President, for convening today’s high-level meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. When it was being planned, no one could have imagined the international context that we would be holding it in today.
Today we are all once again solemnly affirming our commi…
Two months ago, the International Association of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations (IAPR) turned 30 years old. Today, through resolution 72/275, it is finally getting its due acknowledgement, a promise of improved accommodation and the much-needed informational support of the United Na…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States.
Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade constitute the gravest violation of human rights. Due to its duration, scale and legality, the transatlantic slave trade represents an abhorrent phenomenon in the…
I have to honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States.
I would like to express our gratitude to the President of the General Assembly for keeping this topic on the agenda of the United Nations. We would also like to acknowledge all the other important initiati…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus has consistently been of the view that it is premature to determine the concept under consideration. Furthermore, we object to conflating two completely unrelated mandates, which leads to abuse in allocating financing for one mandate at the expense of anothe…
All protocol observed. That way of addressing such aspects of protocol is one of the latest innovations in the list of agreements that resulted from the most recent session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly, and Belarus would like to see it entrenc…
(spoke in Russian): The delegation of Belarus welcomes draft resolution A/72/L.5, of which Belarus is a sponsor, on building a peaceful and better world through sport. One of its key elements is a call to Member States to observe the Olympic Truce under the Charter of the United Nations. We hope tha…
I would like to exercise my right of reply regarding the statement made earlier by the representative of Lithuania.
Belarus considers that nuclear security belongs in a factual rather than a political category. As I noted in our general statement in today’s debate (see A/72/PV.46), Belarus consider…
On behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Belarus, I would like to thank Mr. Yukiya Amano for his comprehensive briefing on the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2016, congratulate him on his re-election to the important post of its Director General and wish him every suc…
As a founding State Member of the United Nations, Belarus
has always been and will remain an ethical and responsible participant in discharging its international commitments, including in the field of human rights. The establishment of the Human Rights Council is an important historical chapter in …
Allow me to express our deepest condolences to the United States in connection with the terrorist act that occurred yesterday, as well as to Argentina and Belgium, which also lost citizens in that attack.
Belarus voted in favour of resolution 72/4, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commer…
We have read the report of the Secretary-General (A/72/1) on the work of the Organization with interest.
The United Nations is clearly faced with the difficult choice of staying within its customary limits and conducting business as usual or of moving forward, while listening to the voice of each i…
I would like to know how the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and today’s meeting help to combat trafficking in persons. That is a particularly timely question. Imagine for a moment that the people who are the victims of this modern slave trade are asking themsel…
The past few decades have been marked by two contradictory trends — increasing political fragmentation and increasing economic globalization. The first of those is associated with the global political instability that has resulted from wars, conflicts, terrorism, xenophobia and other factors and tha…
