In recent months, we have witnessed the development of what we believe to be a new and important doctrinal approach on the part of the Council with respect to the concept of threats to international peace and security and also to questions relating to peacekeeping operations. Along these lines, we w…
First of all, I would like to offer my regards to you, Mr. President, and convey my delegation’s satisfaction at the efficient and transparent way in which you have presided over the work of the Security Council during the month of July.
By adopting this draft resolution on Haiti today, which my co…
On behalf of the delegation of Costa Rica, I wish to express the deepest gratitude to United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM III) and all its personnel, and to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Alioune Blondin Beye, for their extensive work on the Angolan peace pro…
I wish to refer to document A/51/924, “Human rights questions: Approval of the appointment of the High Commissioner for Human Rights”, under agenda item 110, “Human rights questions”, as contained in the note by the Secretary-General that has been distributed to us.
Reference is made in this docume…
Allow me to express the satisfaction of the Government of Costa Rica at the Security Council’s continuing consideration of the case of Somalia, this time by holding a formal meeting in order to approach this subject with the greatest transparency, through the participation of all the States Members …
On behalf of the Government of Costa Rica, I am pleased to welcome the establishment on 11 April 1997 of the Government of Unity and National Reconciliation, which is a milestone in the recent history of Africa and the world. The inauguration of the Government of Unity and National Reconciliation in…
My delegation is pleased to be able to speak in this debate on the situation in Afghanistan.
I should like to begin by saying that Costa Rica gives its unqualified support to the efforts of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan to achieve a peaceful negotiated solution to the conflict a…
My country wishes to reaffirm all the reasons that led Costa Rica to vote, on 7 March, in favour of the previous draft resolution on the subject of the building of settlements in the area of Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghneim in the Arab territories occupied by Israel in East Jerusalem.
In that same spirit,…
Mr. President, I take this opportunity to express my delegation’s appreciation for the outstanding leadership you have shown in conducting our work in connection with this formal meeting, which was convened to address the situation of settlements in East Jerusalem. I also welcome the presence of the…
Allow me at the outset to associate myself with all of those who have extended a welcome to the representative of the Government of Angola, General Carneiro, the Vice-Minister without Portfolio.
My country fully supports the draft resolution that is under consideration by the Security Council regar…
The Government of Costa Rica associates itself with the words of solidarity and sorrow conveyed by the Security Council to the people and the Government of China on the death of their leader, Mr. Deng Xiaoping. Mr. Deng Xiaoping’s extraordinary leadership led to a remarkable period of change and ref…
The Government of Costa Rica, in its capacity as spokesman and Secretary pro tempore of the Central American Presidential Summits, is profoundly pleased by the decision being taken today in the Security Council.
The signing of the peace agreements in Guatemala on 29 December 1996 was the culminatio…
As this is the first time that my country is speaking as a member of the Security Council, I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir. Under your able leadership and guidance, we are in the best possible hands. That is my conclusion after having worked with you since 1 January. My delegati…
(interpretation from Spanish): I have the honour to present the position of the Group of 77 and China on resolution 51/221 B, which the Assembly has just adopted. In our opinion, it is fundamental that the Secretariat, in carrying out the savings measures set forth in General Assembly resolution 50/…
I have the honour to speak in explanation of the position of the Group of 77 and China on the resolution that we have just adopted.
The Group of 77 and China joined in consensus on this resolution, despite the fact that we believe that the General Assembly should approve preliminary estimates of re…
Costa Rica, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, proposes the deletion of operative paragraph 29 of draft resolution B in document A/51/594. The Group of 77 and China is of the view that operative paragraph 29 establishes an unusual and difficult procedure without specifying who will be responsib…
I wish simply to refer to operative paragraph 5, section I, of draft resolution II (resolution 51/77), entitled “The rights of the child”, which is contained in document A/51/615.
In this paragraph, States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child are urged to accept the amendment to par…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, I should like to inform the Assembly that, as I indicated on 4 November in the Third Committee, the Group met to take a stand on the inclusion of the phrase “within existing resources” or of other similar wording, such as “within the regular budget of the Unit…
Before introducing the draft resolution on the situation in Central America, I should like, on behalf of the Government of Costa Rica, to extend condolences to the delegations of Zambia and the Maldives upon the passing of Mr. Paul Lusaka and Ambassador Ahmed Zaki.
On behalf of the delegations of C…
I have the honour of addressing the General Assembly on behalf of the Group of 77 and China on the mid-term review of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF), which was completed in September 1996. We would also like to take this oppo…
