At the outset, I shall have to beg the Council’s indulgence, being so moved by the wealth of analyses and reflections I have heard in this Chamber.
As the Security Council, under your leadership, Sir, is meeting on the situation in my country, following the issuance of the Secretary-General’s lates…
Our stubborn quest for a world of peace, progress, solidarity and of concord recently prompted the Heads of State and of Government from the world over to commit themselves at the Millennium Summit to joint reflection about the ways of making a reality of this aspiration in the twenty-first century.…
Allow me first of all, on behalf of the delegation I am heading, to congratulate you warmly, Sir, on the initiative you have taken in holding this Summit, which is of such importance at the beginning of this new century.
As the Secretary-General has said, the Millennium Summit provides an opportuni…
This is my first opportunity to address the Council since you, Sir, assumed the office of the presidency. Permit me to congratulate you. Your tenure of office is almost over, but we have seen how you have performed with dignity, expediency and a great sense of fair play. You have my admiration and r…
I take pleasure in congratulating Mr. Opertti on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, and I pledge my delegation’s full cooperation. I commend his predecessor, Mr. Udovenko, for bringing the
Just as this session of the General Assembly coincides with th…
I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council.
When the Security Council adopted its resolution 1159 (1998) on 27 March 1998 and created the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA), it was both an act of faith and a chal…
This being the first time that I have had the opportunity to speak before the Security Council since you, Sir, assumed the presidency of the Council, permit me to take this
Today is a great day for us in the Central African Republic. We are very cognizant of the fact that the Council has not approv…
Let me take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of November.
May I, on behalf of my Government, express to the members of the Council our sincere gratitude for the important draft resolution it is about to consider. W…
First and foremost, Sir, I would like to echo the eminent speakers who have already addressed you from this rostrum in conveying the warm congratulations of the Central African delegation on your resounding election to the presidency of this, the fifty-second session of the General Assembly. The fac…
On behalf of the delegation of the Central African Republic, I should like to express our warmest and most heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Razali Ismail on his election to the presidency of this session. His proven skill in international affairs assures us that our work will be crowned with success…
Just last June we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Charter, which to this day still governs our Organization. On that occasion, all Member States were able to take stock of the road we have travelled in 50 years of endeavouring to transform our planet Earth int…
My delegation had thought that this meeting was for explanations of vote on the draft resolutions relating to the question of Namibia adopted yesterday. Unfortunately, the representative of Costa Rica had indulged this morning in a debate on the problem, citing some countries, including my own, whic…
It was with shock that we learned yesterday of the heinous and brutal death of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Mankind as a whOle must feel in the very depth of its sop.d and heart this great and irreparable loss. Mrica has lost one of it~great political figures. Sadat was a man of hist…
I am afraid I had not heard you, Mr. President, because the interpretation, it seems, is a little late coming through to me. The delega- tion ofthe Central African Republic would like to facili- tate your task and the task of the officers of the Assem- bly. But for three or four days Libya has persi…
Since I am taking the floor now for the first time in this Assembly, allow me to convey to the President the very warm and sincere congratulations of my delegation on the occasion ofhis election to the presidency ofthe Assembly. I assure him that he can count on the full co-operation of the delega- …
This universe, full of clash and clamour, can it become more harmonious in its very diversity? Harmony, diversity,' peace, justice, equality: these are the ideals which our Organization embraced after the worst test that mankind has ever been put to. Man was revealed in all his nakedness, his moral …
