Nearly five years ago, the international community met at the Millennium Summit. It was confronted by development challenges, such as extreme poverty, disease — notably HIV and AIDS — and the maintenance of peace and security. That resulted in the adoption of the Millennium Declaration. Two years la…
My delegation wishes to express its gratitude to the President for convening this second phase of the informal consultations on the preparatory process for the high-level plenary meeting scheduled for September this year. We read with great care, and took note of, the well-written summary of his obs…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) — Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe — as well as the candidate …
Botswana welcomes the report of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) submitted to the President of the General Assembly by the outgoing Chair, South Africa, in compliance with resolution 57/302 of 15 April 2003 (A/58/623). The said resolution requested the Chair of the Kimberley Process…
First of all, I should like to thank the Secretary-General for his two reports, on progress made in implementation of the programme of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) (A/58/254) and on implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the …
I have the honour to present this statement on behalf of Ambassador Dube of Botswana, as he has been detained at other meetings this afternoon.
Allow me, at the outset, to align myself with and reiterate my delegation’s commitment to the position of the African Group on this important matter.
It i…
Allow me, first of all, to express once again to the Secretary-General and to all United Nations personnel the condolences of my Government and the people of Botswana for the terrorist attack on United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August. We are outraged that an attack of that magnitude was…
It is my honour to report to the General Assembly on the progress Botswana has made with respect to its commitment to the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS as one of the
189 Member States that, in June 2001, signed the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.
The Declaration has provided us with a …
Botswana, as a co- convener of the Kimberley Process, is delighted that the General Assembly is meeting once again to consider the agenda item “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict” and, more importantly, to consider the draft resolution before us. Members will recall that the General Assembly …
My delegation joins this debate with the hope that, in addition to reviewing progress that we have made so far, we will take time to reflect on the obstacles that we have encountered, then map out a new strategy for the implementation of the political commitment that we undertook in the Declaration …
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session, and for the excellent manner in which you have conducted our deliberations thus far. You will certainly be able to count on the full support and cooperation of the d…
Let me begin my statement by paying tribute to the President of the fifty- sixth session of the General Assembly, Mr. Han Seung- soo, of the Republic of Korea, who served as Chairperson of the Open-ended Working Group on Security Council reform. In that task, he was assisted by his Vice-Chairpersons…
Let me begin by expressing the appreciation of my delegation to the United Nations Secretary-General for his comprehensive, concise and insightful report on the Follow-up to the Outcome of the Millennium Summit, which he introduced to the General Assembly last week.
The report focuses attention on …
Before I deliver my statement, please allow me to express the heartfelt condolences of my delegation to the Governments of
the United States of America and the Dominican Republic and to the families of the victims of the tragic air traffic accident in New York on Monday. During this time of grief a…
In 2002 the General Assembly will conduct the final review of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF). Naturally, Botswana attaches great importance to the New Agenda review process, because the Agenda framework represents a unique compact between Africa a…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate Cameroon, Guinea, the Syrian Arab Republic, Bulgaria and Mexico on their recent election to five non-permanent seats on the Security
Council for a two-year term commencing on 1 January 2002. It is our fervent hope that these members will continue to champion t…
On behalf of the delegation of Botswana, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your well-deserved unanimous election to the presidency of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. We have full confidence that you will be able to guide the work of this rather extraordinary session to a suc…
Let me express my delegation’s profound gratitude at the willingness of the General Assembly to consider the issue of conflict diamonds. This issue is of great concern to us, not only because it threatens to tarnish the image of a commodity which has been precious to relations between human beings a…
The Republic of Botswana, as a co-convener of the Kimberley Process, welcomes this debate on a matter of crucial importance to my country and to Africa. The issue of conflict diamonds has tarnished the image of Africa. It has tarnished the public perception of a resource that should be a resource of…
The number of speakers on this item this year, as in previous years, attests to the importance that the membership of the United Nations attaches to the need to reform the Security Council. It is, however, a source of great concern and frustration that despite wide debate of and interest in this iss…
