All the preceding delegations have tried to express from this rostrum their horror and condemnation in describing their feelings about the heinous acts committed against innocent and defenceless people, indeed against all of us, on the morning of 11 September.
Some must have faced the same difficul…
Let me congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over this fifth-fifth session of the General Assembly. I am confident that your well-known experience in the fields of politics and diplomacy will ensure the success of our work.
To your predecessor, Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab, I would like t…
The President of the General Assembly has made possible this current round of general comments from Member States before we resume our discussions on the question of Security Council reform next year. This allows us to take stock of our willingness to deal with the problem, and we hope that it will …
I take particular pleasure in extending to Mr. Didier Opertti and to his country, Uruguay, my congratulations on his election to preside over
I also express my deep appreciation for the wise leadership his predecessor, Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, imprinted on the work of the fifty-second session, thus c…
I thank you, Sir, for the opportunity offered to my delegation to speak briefly at this meeting, convened by the Security Council to consider the situation in Angola and to take decisions as the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) comes to an end.
The Secretary-General’…
My delegation is pleased to greet you, Sir, as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-second session. I congratulate you warmly on your election; we have full confidence in your notable qualities as a wise and experienced diplomat.
I wish also to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador …
I am honoured to introduce draft resolution A/51/L.78 following the consensus reached in the General Assembly’s Informal Open-ended Working Group on an Agenda for Peace, over which you, Sir, have charged me to preside. It is entitled, “Supplement to an Agenda for Peace”.
The draft resolution has tw…
I congratulate you, Sir, on the highly competent manner in which you have guided the work of the Security Council during the month of February. I also thank your predecessor, Ambassador Owada of Japan, for his very successful work during the course of the last month.
I am grateful for the opportuni…
I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October and to express our certainty that, under your guidance, the Council will be successful in its work.
Your predecessor, my brother Ambassador Cabral of Guinea-Bissau, also mer…
It is with great pleasure that I convey to you, Mr. President, my congratulations on your election to guide the work of this session of the General Assembly. At the same time I extend congratulations to the country that you represent with such distinction. Your outstanding qualities guarantee a comp…
May I extend our congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that the Council will benefit greatly from your recognized skill and experience. We also thank your predecessor, Ambassador Elaraby, for the excellent work and …
I wish to speak in support of the statement made by the representative of Oman. Once one has pressed the button, it is impossible to reverse oneself. Cape Verde does not wish to participate in the vote, but the voting buttons give us only three options: in favour, against or abstention. Our choice i…
Mr. President, we welcome with great satisfaction your election to preside over the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly in the certainty that your qualities as an outstanding and experienced diplomat, in addition to your well-known personal dedication, will guarantee that our work is fruitfu…
My delegation’s deep concern with the current item on the agenda is shared by many others. As an island State, Cape Verde has lived its entire history in, and bases its future on, a close and multifaceted relationship with the sea.
The need to have available a universal code for the international c…
In connection with the current elections, I thought that any candidate should come within the criteria set forth in the Statute of the Court. There is no such criterion as any particular legal system as applied to a region.
I have followed these elections throughout, paying close attention to the r…
In raising this point 444. With regard to paragraph 9, I think that in the of order, Mr. President, my delegation would like to second line of the French version, where it says draw your attention to an apparent discrepancy "conception coherente", it should say "une approche between the French text …
13 Mr. President,allow me first of all to extend to you our warmest congratulations on the occasion of your unanimous electionto the presidency of the thirty-fifth ses-
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13 The opportunity we have at this time to address this illustrious Assemblyof the United Nations-the symbol for all the peoples represented here of hope for a future marked by harmony, respect, equality and co-operation among nations-enables us to express cur satisfaction at noting that some progre…
On behalf of the delegation of Cape Verde, I should like to express my sincerest appreciation to all those countries who were sponsors of draft resolution VIII in document A/32/265/Add.l, entitled "Assistance to Cape Verde". I should like to say how pleased we are that that draft resolution has been…
First of all I should like -on behalf of the delegation of Cape Verde to express my 5incere con- dolences to my friend and colleague, Mr. Ali Humaidan, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates t,"or the brutal and shocking death of Mr. Saifbin Ghobash, the Minb.iter of State for Foreign Affairs of…
