The role of the United Nations in the humanitarian field hardly needs to be emphasized. We therefore welcome the fact that the reform process has given prominence to this issue and focused on the enhancement of the specific responsibilities assigned to the General Assembly, the Security Council and …
It is indeed a very positive initiative that we are meeting today to listen to Mrs. Ogata in an open format. I think that corresponds to the desire for transparency not only of the members of the Council, but also of the United Nations Members outside the Council. I have to commend you, Sir, for tak…
On behalf of the delegations of the member countries of the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) — Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — and the delegations of the associated States of Bolivia and Chile, we wish to express our satisfaction with the report submitted by the Director General of t…
The Secretary-General’s report on the progress made in the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF) constitutes a comprehensive summary of undertakings and a useful set of further
The report combines correct doses of optimism and realism …
Kosovo has become the focus of the same pattern of ethnic violence that has already shattered countless lives throughout the region. Once again, outrage bred by ethnically induced aggression is fuelling radicalism. Once again, the responsibility for having allowed violence to be disseminated falls h…
It is a pleasure to see you, Sir, chairing our work. I wish to thank the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock, for his balanced and objective presentation of this year’s report to the General Assembly. We attach great value to this practice, which was introduced in 1993 by…
I take this opportunity to reiterate the principles that have guided Brazil in its consideration of this issue, as we once again will vote in favour of the draft resolution on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.…
In his presentation of this year’s report on the work of the Organization, Secretary- General Kofi Annan highlighted the need for the United Nations to rediscover the connection between peace and economic security by pointing out that if the poor lack development even the richest on this planet will…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Sweden for having proposed this debate, which allows us to continue to look at ways of improving protection for humanitarian assistance to refugees and others in conflict situations, carrying on from last year’s ground-breaking debate under t…
As an African scholar has recently stated, the shifting patterns of global politics since the end of the cold war have radically repositioned the African continent in contemporary world history. A new era of swift and profound transformations in Africa has brought the continent to the forefront of t…
Mr. President, your election to preside over the fifty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly is especially gratifying for us Brazilians. Brazil and Uruguay came into being as sister nations, and our bonds are becoming ever stronger. With each passing day, our destinies are more and mo…
It is a common perception today — and even commonplace to say — that globalization is an inescapable process which brings both opportunities and risks. But this truism is maybe the only assertion we can easily agree on as the dramatic events of the past two years cast a shadow on the way the risks o…
Five months ago, during the open debate on the letters dated 20 and 23 December 1991, from France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, the Brazilian delegation expressed its hope that the international community, with the cooperation of the Gove…
Like the representative of Uruguay and previous speakers, we would also like to thank you, Mr. President, for the interest you have taken in our deliberations and for being here today, as well as to thank the two Vice-Chairmen and the Secretariat for their good work.
We would also like to take this…
In the first months of this year we witnessed some positive developments in the peace process in Angola. The Government of Unity and National Reconciliation legalized UNITA as a political party, nominated provincial governors from UNITA and began the process of appointing ambassadors from that movem…
My delegation welcomes the presence of the Foreign Minister of Georgia at this meeting.
My country is increasingly concerned over the situation in Georgia since the resumption of hostilities two months ago. It is with disquieting frequency that deplorable facts regarding the security of the peaceke…
The most recent reports on the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia contain both reassuring and disturbing assessments of the situation. On the one hand, it is stressed that UNPREDEP has had a stabilizing role that has successfully contri…
For the fourth time this year the Security Council is meeting to adopt a draft resolution on the situation in Sierra Leone. Immediately after President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was restored to his constitutional mandate, the Council adopted, on 16 March, resolution 1156 (1998), which lifted the embargo on…
Developments in Israel affecting the occupied Arab territories are once again being debated in the Security Council in an atmosphere of
As noted recently in an editorial published by The New York Times,
“any abrupt changes in the city’s delicate status quo, particularly in the absence of negotiati…
The situation of children affected by armed conflict is one which presents the international community and the United Nations with a serious and urgent challenge. We have reached a consensus in identifying this topic as one of grave concern. But the dire predicament of the young whose future is bein…
