I take this opportunity to express again my Government’s condolences on the great human and material losses suffered by Haiti and other countries of the region as a result of Hurricane “Gordon”. Furthermore, Colombia shares the Haitian nation’s joy as it once again takes the road of democracy and pe…
Colombia supports the strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations and disaster relief including special economic assistance. We stress the importance we attach to the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Pre…
It is an honour for me to be addressing you, Sir, and this Assembly of representatives from all parts of our world and, on behalf of my country and my Government, to refer to the subject of development from an alternative perspective.
The President of the General Assembly has affirmed that
“Many p…
It is an honour for Colombia to support, under agenda item 23, the draft resolution entitled “International assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Nicaragua: aftermath of the war and natural disasters”. The exceptional circumstances experienced by that country make it necessary to l…
In the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, the founders of this Organization enshrined the motivation that inspired its inception in 1945:
“We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human ri…
My country’s foreign policy is based on a firm commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the charter of the Organization of American States. Colombia believes that international relations are based on the sovereign equality of States; respect for their identi…
The international community has begun to be aware of the tragedy that the production, proliferation,
Therefore, exporting countries must renounce the selfishness that comes from mercantilism, forgo the fat profits amassed at the cost of the devastation of defenceless peoples, and adopt genuinely ef…
I, too, shall be very brief.
My delegation is pleased to be among those that have supported and sponsored draft resolution A/49/L.3, which invites the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to be a permanent observer in the General Assembly. The honour fell to my country, …
Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly at this session. We are assured that with your experience and skill you will guide our work with great success.
I should also like to congratulate Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana for his exc…
First of all, Mr. President, I should like to congratulate you, on my own behalf and on behalf of the delegation of Colombia on the way in which you have presided over the work of this Assembly. Your competence, your abilities and your wisdom, with which I have long been familiar, have been demonstr…
Colombia supports the statements made by the Ambassador of Jamaica on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States and the representative of Indonesia on behalf of the Movement of Non-aligned Countries.
We are here on this historic occasion to welcome the new Government of South Afric…
On behalf of the Government of Colombia, I wish to express our sincere gratitude to you, Mr. President, for your words of condolence and solidarity on the recent painful tragedy in my country. Colombia deeply appreciates the kind words of the international community, and of the United Nations in par…
I am here today as a member of the Latin American and the Caribbean family to present the results of our work in connection with the subject of the family, and also to submit to you the Declaration adopted at the regional meeting which took place in the city of Cartagena last August, with the co-spo…
General Assembly resolution 47/62 was the point of departure for this fundamental process of reforming the Security Council. Colombia was a sponsor of that resolution, and we believe that, indeed, it represented explicit recognition by the international community of the need to reform the Council an…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and the People’s Republic of China, I should like to thank the Secretary- General and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Jan Eliasson, for the report introduced on 18 October on the activities of the Department relative to the coordination of human…
The presentation of the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly is of fundamental importance to Colombia because it gives an opportunity for the necessary interaction between the principal organs of the Organization.
I should like first of all to say how pleased I am at the prompt su…
Colombia attaches the greatest importance to these high-level plenary meetings on international drug control, which are being held within the framework of the United Nations General Assembly. We are pleased to have actively promoted this event at precisely the time when interest in the subject appea…
For Colombia, Central America is an area of vital interest. We have followed closely, with great interest and all our attention, the developments in that area. Nicaragua is a fundamental part of the development of Central and Latin America. That is why we have co-sponsored the draft resolution on in…
The Secretary-General states in his report on the work of the Organization:
We are pleased to see that the Secretary-General has taken up again the integrated approach to development that I have put forward on many occasions on behalf of the Group of 77.
Development must be integrated. These three…
My statement will be very brief. I do wish to say that my delegation agrees with the statements made by the representatives of Guatemala and France. 23. The truth is that my delegation fails to understand why these measures have been embarked upon so swiftly when, at the various meetings of the Gene…
