I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/52/L.15, entitled “Proclamation of the year 2000 as the International Year for the Culture of Peace”, on behalf of the following sponsors: Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, th…
It gives me great pleasure this morning to
Côte d’Ivoire has co-sponsored this draft resolution, and we fully associate ourselves with the relevant arguments stated by the other sponsors and all other previous speakers.
I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the United Nations …
The World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen in March 1995, brought together an impressive number of world leaders, demonstrating the importance the international community attaches to social issues, which are a gauge of progress in the world.
The participants in the Social Summit co…
The illustrious election of the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations at its fifty- second session is not only a well-deserved tribute to his country, Ukraine, in recognition of its important role on the international scene, but an acknowledgement of his own human and professional …
My delegation and I are pleased, Sir, to see you presiding over the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. Your great experience of multilateral diplomacy, along with the apt initiatives which your great country, Malaysia, and you yourself have taken in many focal areas of international relati…
Through me, Côte d’Ivoire welcomes the General Assembly’s decision to take up, at the request of the African Civil Service Ministers who met in Tangiers on 20 and 21 June 1994, the question of public administration and development at its resumed fiftieth session.
In fact, the first initiative to in…
I apologize for the absence of Ambassador Kacou Gervais; he is at present engaged in the work of the Economic and Social Council.
Let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on the diligent way in which you are guiding the work of the Security Council this month. I also thank your predecessor for his g…
The major world conferences organized by the United Nations in recent years have had development as their central theme. These conferences, while focusing on issues such as the environment, human rights, population, women and human settlements, have above all striven to promote development in its va…
It gives me pleasure to take the opportunity of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of International
Youth represent 18 per cent of the world population, that is, 1.01 billion persons between 15 to 24 years of age; 84 per cent of these people live in developing countries and represent a challe…
I am happy to be able to speak for the second time on behalf of my country, Côte d’Ivoire, before this noble and historic commemorative session of the General Assembly, which is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, in order to address a
Côte d’Ivoire, a sponsor of this draft …
Côte d’Ivoire is a sponsor of the draft resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation (ACTC). Allow me, on behalf of my delegation, to join earlier speakers in stressing the importance of this subject, as well as the keen interest my count…
The International Olympic Committee is this year celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its founding at Paris in 1894, on the initiative of the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin. To pay tribute to that organization, which is led and supported on a volunteer basis, the General Assembly at i…
Côte d'Ivoire has abstained once again in the vote on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. My delegation’s abstention in no way reflects a wish to see extended the tragedy of the Cuban people, which has for so ma…
The sympathy expressed on the occasion of the passing of our lamented President, His Excellency Mr. Félix Houphouët-Boigny, testifies to the international community’s great esteem for this giant of Africa, one of the founding fathers of the Organization of African Unity, whose domestic and foreign p…
In its follow-up machinery, the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s provided for the carrying out by the General Assembly this year of a preliminary review of the progress of the Agenda, which followed on the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Re…
Over the past two decades and especially since 1980, the abuse and illicit trafficking of drugs have grown at a frightening pace, sparing no national borders and without regard to the socio-economic development of countries around the globe. Hence, this phenomenon has not
Already weakened by an unp…
I should like to pay tribute to the wisdom of the Assembly in electing Ambassador Insanally to preside over
I also wish to congratulate the members of the Bureau and to extend to the outgoing President, Mr. Stoyan Ganev, our warm congratulations on the excellent work done during his mandate.
I sho…
The
delegation of the Cote d'lvoire is pleased at this opportunity to speak on
this agenda item and to reaffirm all the hopes our country has placed in the
United Hations Conference on Environment and Development (UHCED).
Without any doubt, the Rio Summit - in its preparation and during the
Con…
We grieved
to learn of the aviation disaster yesterday in Lagos, which caused the death
of 163 members of the Nigerian military. On this sad occasion I should like
to convey to the people and the Government of Nigeria our most sincere
condolences.
First Sir, on behalf of the delegation of Cote …
My delegation would like to explain briefly the vote it cast on the Belgian amendment [A/38/L.9] to draft resolution A/38/L.8, concerning the situation in Grenada.
The meeting rose at 8.35 p.m.
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