Brazil attaches great importance to the role played by the Latin American Economic System (SELA) in contributing effectively to the work of the United Nations. This cooperation has not been limited to the elaboration of documents relevant to the debates within this Organization; beyond that, SELA’s …
I wish to start by expressing our appreciation of the fair, impartial and expeditious manner in which Ambassador Amara Essy of Côte d’Ivoire and his two Vice-Chairmen, Ambassadors Breitenstein of Finland and Pibulsonggram of Thailand, conducted the comprehensive debate undertaken during the forty-ni…
Since the end of the cold war, international relations have largely lost the confrontational and ideological character they once had. Global tendencies point to a need for increased dialogue and cooperation. Against this background, coercive trade measures of any kind are not appropriate. The intern…
The opportunity offered the General Assembly to comment upon the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization is of particular relevance as we celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. As the Secretary-General himself points out in the conclusions of his thought-provoking report, the fi…
It gives me great pleasure to make use of our common language to congratulate you, Sir, on your election. We are honoured to see a Portuguese statesman, a friend of Brazil, and a representative of our commonwealth of Portuguese- speaking countries presiding over this session of the General Assembly,…
Before turning to the question of the appointment of Mr. Rubens Ricupero, I should like, Mr. President, since I had the privilege of being the first to welcome and congratulate you at the opening of the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly, to extend to you my appreciation and that of my Gove…
At the outset, let me congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August. We are confident that under your wise and skilled leadership the work of the Security Council will be conducted in a highly effective way. I take this opportunity also to thank y…
I wish first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on having presided over the Security Council during this month of April with your well-known skills. At the same time, we express our deep appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Li of China.
The Brazilian Government has consistently and closely fo…
Mr. President, as my delegation warmly welcomes your presence here today, I congratulate Ambassador Legwaila on his assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February. We are fully confident that under his wise and skilled leadership the work of the Security Council will …
For more than two years, the Security Council has followed with keen interest and concern the evolution of the situation in Mozambique. My delegation is extremely pleased that the Security Council has decided to hold a debate on an issue the outcome of which has been very much welcomed by the entire…
The delegation of Brazil welcomes this opportunity to have a public debate on the working methods and procedures of the Security Council. The proposal, submitted by the delegation of France, that there should be a discussion of modalities for having greater recourse to open meetings of the Council i…
As we address the important question of the financial situation of the Organization, the delegation of Brazil wishes, at the outset, to associate itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Algeria on behalf of the Group of the 77 and China.
During its five decades of existenc…
May I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the office of President of the Security Council for the month of December. We are fully confident that you will conduct our business in an effective and smooth way, and you may rest assured that
We have listened with great attention to the comprehe…
The launching of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, set to begin on 10 December 1994, constitutes yet another important initiative of the United Nations aimed at promoting and protecting indigenous people, a group which, in most cases, finds itself in adverse and vulnerable s…
Brazil is pleased to co- sponsor the draft resolution, entitled “Support by the United Nations system for the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies”. Having actively participated in both the First and the Second International Conference of New or Restored Demo…
The efforts undertaken by the international community to codify and develop the law of the sea have clearly paid off. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which entered into force last month, is in all aspects the most comprehensive multilateral treaty ever achieved. We have at our d…
I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/49/L.18/Rev.1, sponsored by Angola, Argentina, Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Uruguay, Zaire…
The end of the Second World War in 1945 gave rise to a feeling of profound relief and to renewed hopes for the international community. We had survived the greatest conflagration in history. The magnitude of the loss of life and material destruction testified to the horrors withstood by peoples and …
At the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly, the delegation of Brazil welcomed the historic signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization and expressed the hope that it would pave the way for furthe…
In the aftermath of massive crimes in Rwanda, the international community witnessed an exodus that was unprecedented in terms both of the number of people involved and of the very short period in which it has occurred. Today the violence against the suffering Rwandese people occurs mostly in the cam…
