On behalf of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session. I assure you of our full support and cooperation in the accomplishment of your tasks. Your skill and extensive experience in int…
It is an honour and a pleasure for me to take the floor once again before this Assembly. At the outset I would like to
I would also like to take this opportunity to pay glowing tribute to his predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Didier Opertti, for the devotion and the ability with which he conducted th…
We must note that Africa is being torn apart by incessant, alarming wars, as well as by economic disparities that require special attention from the international community. However, Africa also is a continent of hope and of the future. I do not doubt that it will be able to meet the challenge now c…
It is with great emotion that the delegation of the Comoros has listened to the tributes you have just paid to our late President of the Republic, His Excellency Hajj Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim. On behalf of my Government and the people of the Comoros, we would like to extend our most sincere thanks t…
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, on behalf of the people and Government of my country, the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, to extend my sincere condolences to all the States and peoples who have suffered devastation from Hurricane Georges, and to the victims of the floods in the Peopl…
On behalf of the people of the archipelago of the Comoros and of President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, I thank the General Assembly for the importance it attaches to the problems of my country.
At a time when the question of the Comorian island of Mayotte is again being considered by the General Asse…
The unanimous election of the President of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly of the United Nations was a tribute not only to his outstanding diplomatic qualities, but also to his country, Ukraine — with which the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros fully intends to have good relat…
Allow me once again to extend from this lofty rostrum my most heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Razali Ismail on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. This unanimous homage paid to you by the international community is likewise a tribute to y…
Allow me at the outset to address to the President the sincere congratulations of the delegation of the Comoros on his brilliant election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. My country, the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, is delighted by his election becaus…
Agenda item 36, entitled "Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte" provides me with the welcome opportunity to address the General Assembly for a second time. Allow me, Sir, to reiterate the brotherly congratulations of the Government and the people of the
I am very pleased to learn that, under …
At the outset, I should like, on behalf of the delegation of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, to extend to Mr. Essy my warmest congratulations on his election to the presidency of our Assembly. I am convinced that his wealth of experience in international relations will be for us the bes…
My delegation, having heard the statements of our colleagues from Kenya and Bosnia and Herzegovina, is fully behind the statement made by the latter. We believe that in voting separately on the two paragraphs mentioned we would be destroying the draft resolution as it has been composed. We therefore…
With the collapse of ideological blocs that had kept the threat of war alive over several decades, the improvement of East-West relations and the emergence of democratic forces now augur a new and promising era of peace and well-being for our respective peoples. This new dynamic gave hope to the peo…
After 48 years of constant pressure on Israel and of persistent debate, year in and year out, in this body on the questions of Palestine and the Middle East, we seem at long last to be able to perceive light at the end of the tunnel. It is our ardent hope that the light is not a false one, like a mi…
In addressing this Assembly for the first time, I am pleased to extend to you, Sir, the congratulations of the delegation of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, which I have the honour to head, on your outstanding election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth sessio…
I have the
particularly agreeable duty, on behalf of the people and Government of the
Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros, of conveying to Mr. Ganev warm and
sincere congratulations on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the
General Assembly at its forth-seventh session. We have ever…
I should like first of all, Sir, to offer you on behalfofmy delegation our warmest congratulations on your election as President of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. We are convinced that your long experience in the important posts that you have held, in particular as Permanent Repr…
Once again the General Assembly has to consider the dossier on Mayotte. At previous sessions, I described to members the circumstances which led to this distressing problem and regularly informed them of the latest developments in the matter. Today, again, I should like to pa~nt as clear a picture a…
The cause of the people of Palestine has become one of the permanent problems on the agenda of the Organization.
159. We are today meeting here again to discuss the question of PalesJine, as those before us have been doing since 1948. This question is as old as the United Nations itself.
160. The …
While the past 20 years in Africa have been characterized by decolonization and the struggle for human dignity, it is an astonishing fact that, contrary to all common sense, a retrograde regime of domination and blind oppression is seeking to per- severe, knowing very well it will have to lose in th…
