Chile has been an active promoter of an in-depth reform of the United Nations which, in reaffirming the principles and values of the Charter, will increase its credibility and legitimacy. We have already taken important steps in that direction, but we should not set aside the challenge of reforming …
First of all, I would like to say that we support what the Minister of Health of Guyana said on behalf of the Rio Group.
On behalf of the delegation of Chile, composed of Government representatives, persons living with HIV/AIDS, social non-governmental organizations and scientific societies, I comm…
On behalf of the States members of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I would like to thank the Missions of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well the President of the General Assembly and the Secretariat, for convening this commemorative meeting, which enables us to rev…
The delegation of Chile wishes to thank the Argentine Republic, in particular the President of the Security Council, Minister Jorge Taiana, for the initiative to convene this open debate on a subject that is important for the region and arouses the interest of the international community. We value i…
The Chilean delegation voted in favour of the resolution establishing the Human Rights Council. However, we feel it necessary to make some comments and clarifications for the record.
Protecting human beings lies at the heart of our interest in the Human Rights Council. We wish situations of violati…
My delegation welcomes the decision of the General Assembly to hold this High-level Dialogue on the highly important topic of international migration and development. We are confident that this initiative will place that social and economic phenomenon, involving almost 200 million people in the worl…
The delegation of Chile has joined the consensus for the adoption of the draft resolution on sustainable fisheries, contained in A/60/L.23, with the following understanding.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea contains independent and comprehensive standards on high seas fishing tha…
I would like to express my appreciation for the report of the Security Council (A/60/2), introduced by the representative of the Russian Federation, on its activities during the period 1 August 2004 to 31 July 2005, the contents of which we have taken due note.
Throughout the ongoing United Nations…
I should like, first of all, to congratulate the Bureau for its leadership in guiding our work in the General Assembly.
Resolutions 58/5 of 3 November 2003 and 59/10 of 27 October 2004 declared 2005 as the International Year of Sport and Physical Education, seeing the Year as an important means to …
Just over a month ago, our heads of State or Government stated that one of the fundamental pillars of United Nations reform is security, specifically, terrorism, which is one of the most serious threats to international peace and security, as we saw this morning with the terrorist attack that took p…
I am pleased to commend the President, and the other
members of the Bureau on their election. We assure them of our full willingness to cooperate in the tasks facing us.
We arrived at this session of the General Assembly with the same conviction and resolve that we had 60 years ago. We still belie…
On several occasions Chile has stated that at this historic juncture it is in favour of a comprehensive reform of the United Nations that would reaffirm the principles and values of the Charter and thereby enhance the credibility and legitimacy of the Organization, thus bringing it into step with to…
The Monterrey Consensus on financing for development called for the holding of a special high-level meeting of the General Assembly to follow up and assess the commitments entered into in that document.
Today more than ever, it is necessary to strengthen multilateralism. We must move from the evalu…
The delegation of Chile would like to express its appreciation to you, Madam President, and to Denmark for having convened this open meeting to consider the situation in Haiti. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Brazil, Ambassador Ronaldo Sardenberg, for having introduced th…
Mr. President, allow me first of all to congratulate you on your conduct of the work of the Security Council during this month and on your initiative to present jointly the reports of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), respectively. This is a…
We associate ourselves with the expressions of grief at the sad passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who, in a memorable visit to Chile, brought us a message of peace and hope in difficult times. We also associate ourselves with the condolences expressed in connection with the sorrowful death …
We particularly thank the Argentine Republic for the timely convening of this open debate on Haiti. Likewise, we congratulate its Minister for Foreign Affairs, our dear friend Rafael Bielsa, on that important initiative and wish him every success in the presidency of the Security Council. We also wa…
The delegation of Chile wishes to refer to paragraph 5 of document A/59/486/Add.2, which states “At the same meeting [of the Second Committee], the representative of Chile made a statement”. The statement referred to our position in agreement with the consensus and the support voiced in favour of th…
First, I would like to thank the Algerian presidency for convening this important discussion on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. I would also like to express our thanks for the briefing by the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Jan Egeland. In particular, Sir, I sho…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Convening Group of the Community of Democracies, comprised of the Czech Republic, India, the Republic of Korea, Mali, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, the United States of America and Chile.
First of all, I wish to read out a statement issued by th…
