It is not actually a point of order. I would like to seek clarification concerning draft resolution X. When this draft resolution was considered in the Committee, we had clarified that Ghana mistakenly was included in the list. We had corrected that. We do not know why, but this error has been repea…
The Palestinian people and the peoples of all the occupied Arab territories have reached the most crucial moment in their history. Madrid, Oslo and other more recent developments made it seem that the peace process would produce real results and would finally
permit progress towards a just and last…
The question of Palestine has again prompted the General Assembly to convene. Exactly two months ago, Israel began this most recent chapter in its long history of acts of aggression against the heroic people of Palestine. More than 200 unarmed civilians have died, and over 11,000 people have been wo…
I shall speak first in my capacity as Acting Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
Dozens of resolutions have been adopted, clearly reflecting the will of the majority. Recent examples include the Council’s own resolution 1322 (2000) and Gene…
We thank the Secretary-General for his report contained in document A/55/489. We have carefully analysed it and we believe it provides the framework for a substantive discussion of the issue.
In our opinion, democracy means real, everyday participation in the exercise of power and in the decision-m…
Security Council reform is without doubt the most delicate task related to the overall reform of the United Nations, and its result will probably have the biggest long-term impact on the future of the Organization.
The Security Council is not democratic, fair or representative. It is not effective,…
There is no task more urgent and more important than the democratization of international relations. Without it, efforts for peace, development and cooperation would be futile. The United Nations has the fundamental responsibility to attain that objective.
The parliamentarians of the entire world r…
Destiny has chosen that we should debate a lofty matter of such importance to the attainment of a fair, peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict at a time when the peace process in the region appears to be more a chimera than a reality, because of the brutal aggression unleashed by Israel again…
I begin by expressing my delegation’s sincere thanks to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, for his introduction of the Agency’s annual report.
Cuba attaches great importance to the work of the IAEA. Over the years our country has had a sign…
During the special session of the General Assembly held at Geneva last June to consider, five years on, the implementation of the commitments undertaken by a great number of heads of State at the Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development, we sadly realized that the real possibility of meeting t…
Cuba’s position on unilateral coercive measures directed against developing countries has been and is widely known. Consistent with that position, my delegation voted in favour of resolution 53/10, adopted by the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, and will vote in favour of the draft resol…
We thank Ambassador Martin Andjaba of Namibia for introducing the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. We also
thank the other members of the Security Council and the Secretariat for the work they did to prepare this large amount of material.
Without failing to recognize …
We have been participating with great interest in the preparatory process for the special session to follow up on the World Summit for Children, which is to be held next September. The review of the commitments undertaken in the September 1990 World Summit for Children Declaration regarding the surv…
The Millennium Summit has recently concluded, and the international community is now awaiting concrete results. The report submitted to us by the Secretary- General this year — and we are very grateful to him for it — constitutes, in our opinion, a valuable reference document on the most recent succ…
We are living at a decisive moment in the history of humankind. More than half a century after the creation of the United Nations, on the threshold of a new millennium that was supposed to herald an era of peace among men, solidarity among nations and greater well- being for the poorest people, we a…
I wish first of all, Mr. President, to thank you and your team for your efforts to formulate a document worthy of being referred to the Millennium Summit. We consider that the draft Declaration is for the most part well balanced. Despite the varied perceptions of the United Nations and its role in t…
It is Cuba’s hope that the concern we are showing today about the almost 36 million people in the world living with the HIV virus, of which 24.5 million are in sub- Saharan Africa alone, will translate into the mobilization of the international community to make comprehensive efforts to fight this d…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting.
I must confess my delegation’s confusion about what is happening at this meeting. This is a formal meeting of the General Assembly at which a draft resolution has been presented, and it was my delegation’s understanding that action would be taken on it …
We are extraordinarily pleased that the General Assembly has been able to adopt this resolution at this time, after 18 months of consultations and numerous meetings.
As we stated on 27 April of this year, the fact that we have been able to adopt these important decisions puts us in an excellent pos…
First of all, allow me to express sincere congratulations to the President on behalf of my delegation for convening this meeting and for the interest Canada, Minister Axworthy and you yourself, Mr. President, have placed on the issue sanctions. I also wish to congratulate you, sir, for the work you …
