I wish first of all, on behalf of my Government and on my own account, to convey our deep condolences to the Government and the people of the Republic of Zimbabwe on the untimely death of His Excellency Mr. Moven Mahachi, Minister of Defence, who died last Saturday in a traffic accident. Mr. Mahachi…
At the outset, on behalf of Major-General Joseph Kabila, President of our Republic, and of my Government and people, as well as on my own personal behalf, I extend our deepest condolences to you, Sir, to the families of the victims, to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and to the …
At a time when the Security Council is about to adopt an important draft resolution on the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), I first have the pleasure, on behalf of the delegation accompanying me and on my own behalf, o…
My delegation apologizes for taking the floor at this late hour. We merely wish to thank you, Mr. President, and, through you, the entire Bureau of the General Assembly, for having responded favourably to the request by the United Kingdom to add the item on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict.…
My delegation had no intention of taking the floor at this late stage of our work, especially following the remarkable statement made by Mr. Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
My delegation will therefore b…
Once again I shall rely on the kindness of those who interpret our speeches, since I am yet again putting them to the test of working without a written text.
I shall switch between repetition and familiar issues, between deception and truth.
First, repetition. As last year, the President of the De…
I ask the interpreters to forgive me for not having submitted a text. I did not do so because I would like to depart from the beaten path.
What can one recommend to the United Nations to make its peacekeeping work more effective? I should like to link that question to the ideas that a great mind of…
I find myself in a position that reminds me of the teachings of the “Spanish Machiavelli”, Baltazar Gracián y Morales, about what one should be and what one should do, in his book The Courtier’s Oracle. I appear here as a courtier, trying to walk on eggs without crushing them, and obliged to reassur…
Allow me first of all to fulfil the pleasant duty of extending to you, Sir, on
behalf of my delegation and in my personal capacity, my warm and sincere congratulations on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council.
I also wish to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative o…
The Security Council has unanimously adopted the resolution on the second phase of the deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC).
My delegation is all the more gratified that this decision, which is a significant step towards achieving pea…
I apologize for taking the floor once more at this late stage in the debate, and I shall be very brief. My delegation wishes first to tell our compatriot, the representative of Rwanda, that we are pleased to note that he acknowledges the presence of Rwandan troops in
Once again today the representatives of Rwanda and of Burundi have been talking nonsense and telling unspeakable lies about the dreadful role their countries are playing through their senseless and unjust invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their statements do not
My delegation recall…
I do not intend to launch into polemics. I would simply like to reply briefly to the statements made by the representatives of Rwanda and Uganda.
I shall start by saying that, indeed, there was genocide in Rwanda, and 500,000 people met their deaths in the course of that genocide, which took place …
The convening in the splendid metropolis of New York of this last General Assembly session of the millennium affords me the happy opportunity, on behalf of the people, the Government of Public Salvation and the head of State, His Excellency President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, of the Democratic Republic…
I would first like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to lead the work of the General Assembly during its fifty-fourth session.
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“Items on the agenda may be amended or deleted by the General Assembly by a majority of the members present and voting.”
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I have asked to take the floor again not to respond to the distortions of the truth by the delegations of the aggressor countries, but merely to shed some light on facts that speak for themselves.
The history of the Congo River basin since 1885 has been marked by a number of assaults on the human r…
It is under the relevant provisions of Article 35 of the Charter of the United Nations and article 15 of the provisional rules of procedure of the General Assembly that my country requested the inclusion of an additional item entitled “Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo” o…
I wish to take this opportunity to express my pleasure at seeing you, Sir, presiding today over the Security Council. Your presidency is for me a source of pride, because China has excellent relations with my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I feel duty-bound to thank you for allowing …
One year from the dawning of a new millennium, while the international community celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there is hardly any need to recall that my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the subject of an armed aggression that is j…
