I extend a very special greeting to the President of the General Assembly, Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, and to the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Ms. Natalia Kanem. It is an honour to be among everyone today at this commemoration of the historic International Confer…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate on a subject that concerns us all.
The best way to attack the links between transnational crime and terrorism is through
prevention. States must strengthen the institutions that combat crime and work hard to reduce impunity and to respe…
It is an honour to stand at this rostrum under the presidency of Her Excellency Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés.
My country aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Denmark on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
Allow me, first of al…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, and your delegation for having convened today’s open debate, and congratulate you on having assumed the leadership of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions with responsibility and integrity. We are also grateful for the briefi…
Costa Rica thanks Indonesia for convening this important debate. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Mauer and Mr. Federico Borello for their valuable contributions to this discussion.
Although it has been 20 years since the Security Council adopted resolution 1265 (1999), lead…
Costa Rica supported the adoption of resolution 73/295 this morning (see A/73/PV.83), based on pillars that are fundamental to its foreign policy. In this case, the human rights of a group of people have been affected. The inhabitants of Chagos were forcibly expelled and prevented from returning to …
We welcome the holding of this International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace and we thank you, Madam President, for the central focus you have placed on this topic in during your tenure.
Costa Rica shares your vision of multilateralism as a key tool for promoting peace, respect for h…
Costa Rica thanks the German presidency for
convening this open debate. We also thank the briefers for their valuable contributions to this debate.
My delegation endorses the statement made earlier by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of Friends on the Responsibility to Protect.
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I am very honoured to speak today on behalf of the States members of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC). At the outset, we would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your active engagement with Member States, and in particular we commend your initiative in convening t…
Costa Rica thanks you, Sir, for having convened this meeting and Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
Not all options for finding a solution to the tragic situation in Venezuela are open. I repeat — not all options are open. In order to find a solution to this crisis, the well-being of the Venezuelans mu…
As an aside, and as I have mentioned, I completed part of my secondary education in Venezuela.
The will of the sovereign in a democracy is manifested in free, open and verifiable electoral processes. As Costa Rica has already indicated on several occasions, the electoral process carried out in Vene…
My delegation would like to thank the Dominican Republic for convening this open debate on this important topic, which affects us all. The Secretary-General has called climate change a defining issue of our times and a direct threat to our existence. He has warned us that “we are in trouble”.
It ha…
We are celebrating the fact that 20 years ago the international community took the major step of granting due recognition to all who devote their lives and efforts to fighting for human rights. Human rights defenders play a key role in strengthening democracy, peace, social inclusion and sustainable…
My delegation would like to thank the President for convening this annual debate on the issue of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council. At the outset, we would like to thank Ambassadors Kaha Imnadze of Georgia and Lana Zaki Nusseibeh of the United Arab Em…
In my national capacity, I share the pleasure that you expressed this morning, Madam President, about the fact that you are presiding over this meeting on the progress in the revitalization process of the work of the General Assembly.
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I have the honour to speak on behalf of the …
We appreciate the report on the work of the Human Rights Council during its thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions and its twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth special sessions (A/73/53 and A/73/53/Add.1), and we thank the Council’s President, Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, for his presentation.
Costa Ric…
Costa Rica reaffirms its absolute commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Consistent with its policy of peace, commitment to
multilateralism and strict respect for international law, my country reiterated its historic support for Cuba by voting in favour of r…
My delegation thanks Judge Eboe-Osuji for presenting the reports of the Secretary-General on the activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the period from 2017 to 2018. I would also like to congratulate him on his appointment in March as President of the International Criminal Cour…
Costa Rica thanks the presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia for having convened this open debate and the Secretary-General for his report (S/2018/900). We also express our thanks for the briefings provided earlier.
We are pleased that today we are focusing our discussions on the importan…
It is an honour for Costa Rica to once again participate in the annual meeting of the General Assembly to consider the report on the work of the International Court of Justice, which is the only international tribunal of a universal nature that has general jurisdiction and is the principal judicial …
