I would like to extend our appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your timely initiative in convening this debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his important statement.
Our appreciation also goes to the Prime Minister of Somalia, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed…
I would like to join previous delegations in expressing our appreciation to Special Adviser Jack Lang for his briefing and for his very comprehensive and thoughtful report (S/2011/30). Our appreciation also goes to Assistant Secretary-General Stephen Mathias for his remarks and to Ambassador Elmi Du…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this timely open debate. I also take this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General for an excellent presentation. I welcome Deputy Prime Minister of Timor-Leste Mr. José Luís Guterres, and congratulate him on the important strides that his country has made…
I thank Under-Secretaries- General Alan Le Roy and Valerie Amos for their comprehensive briefings today.
One year after the earthquake and its devastating toll, compounded by the tragic loss of lives to the cholera epidemic, the situation in Haiti continues to be extremely difficult. We are closely…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Lynn Pascoe for his detailed briefing. I also thank the Permanent Observer of Palestine for his remarks.
Since Israel’s decision not to renew the settlement moratorium in September 2010, the construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories has gained …
Allow me to join previous speakers in expressing Brazil’s appreciation to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, Mr. Haile Menkerios, and President Benjamin Mkapa for their briefings today.
My delegation is very pleased that the Southern Sudan referendum was carried out …
I wish to thank Special Representative Staffan de Mistura for his briefing and for the work he and his team have been carrying out in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I also thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement. I would also like to join my colleagues in expres…
I would like to express our appreciation to you, Madam President, for convening this debate on such an important issue.
I also thank the Secretary-General for his remarks and for his comprehensive and candid report on sexual violence in armed conflict (S/2010/604).
We are grateful to Special Repre…
I warmly welcome President Benjamin Mkapa and thank him for today’s briefing and for his important work at the head of the Secretary- General’s Panel on the Referenda in the Sudan. I ask him to kindly convey our appreciation to his fellow panellists as well.
I note with appreciation the statements …
Mr. President, I thank you for your statement and Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, for their statements.
I would also like to commend the United States for its initiative in convening this meeting during its presidency,…
This year has been marked by disasters of great magnitude, such as the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan. Such tragedies have highlighted the tremendous human cost of natural disasters, in particular when they occur in areas where acute poverty and lack of infrastructure render the popu…
On behalf of the seven founding members of the Foreign Policy and Global Health Initiative, namely, Norway, South Africa, Thailand, France, Senegal, Indonesia and Brazil, and as the current coordinator of the group, Brazil has the honour to introduce draft resolution A/65/L.27, entitled “Global heal…
In his first official visit to the African continent, in 2003, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva acknowledged our historic debt to our neighbours across the Atlantic. Over nearly three centuries, millions of African slaves were forcibly brought to Brazil’s shores, where they invariably faced extre…
I join previous speakers in thanking the honourable Presidents and Prosecutors of
the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their comprehensive reports on their respective completion strategies (S/2010/588, annexes I an…
At the outset, allow me to express our gratitude to Ambassadors Sanja Štiglic of Slovenia and Jorge Argüello of Argentina for their diligent work at the helm of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly during the sixty-fourth session. Under their wise leadership, the Ge…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the delegations of Argentina and Brazil on the situation in the Middle East. I wish in particular to explain the votes of the delegations of Argentina and Brazil on resolution 65/18, on the Syrian Golan, which the General Assembly has just adopted.
Argentina …
It is most appropriate that the General Assembly discuss the question of Palestine, given the importance of the issue for the international community as a whole, especially at this crucial juncture in the peace process. The end of the Israeli moratorium on settlements in September put to the test, e…
Brazil welcomes this opportunity to discuss challenges to the full realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation, at the initiative of Bolivia. It is a pleasure to welcome His Excellency Mr. Evo Morales, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. We listened very carefully and with…
I would like to thank Under- Secretary-Generals Valerie Amos and Alain Le Roy, High Commissioner Navi Pillay and the Director- General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Yves Daccord, for their briefings. I also express my appreciation to the Secretary-General for his in- depth report …
I join previous speakers in thanking Foreign Secretary William Hague for convening this meeting.
I warmly greet President Thabo Mbeki and express Brazil’s appreciation for the invaluable work he and his fellow eminent members have been doing in the African Union High-level Implementation Panel for …
