The present consideration of “An agenda for development” is, in our view, one of the most relevant issues in the work of the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly.
At the outset, allow me to express my delegation’s full support for the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Algeria…
First of all, my delegation wishes to express its gratitude to you, Sir, for your words on this new scourge that has been inflicted on our country, this time by nature. Indeed, only a few hours ago the people of Cuba, like the people of sister countries in the Caribbean, suffered the consequences of…
Allow me first to say that my delegation welcomes the fact that the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, in his capacity as President of the Security Council, introduced the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. We hope that this practice, which we are encouraged to note…
The discussion under item 10 of the agenda is probably one of the most important of this session. Its importance lies precisely in the fact that, as we approach the commemoration of the first half- century of this Organization, the debate grows stronger on what the Organization should be in the futu…
This is the third session at which the General Assembly has had to consider an item that constitutes one of the most obvious remnants of the cold-war period. For the second consecutive year the Government of the United States has failed to comply with the will of the international community expresse…
As we who are gathered here deliver our statements, a small and impoverished Caribbean nation is being subjected to military occupation. The inconceivable deal struck with the generals responsible for the coup d’état - yesterday threatened as murderers, but today turned into complacent partners - ig…
I wish to thank the Council for the opportunity given to me to express the position of a State Member of the United Nations on an extremely important issue. I must acknowledge that the circumstances in which this formal meeting of the Council have been convened do not facilitate the exercise of this…
The negotiating process for the resolution we have just adopted was flexible, arduous, difficult and, in the view of my delegation, hasty and badly timed. We believe it would have been appropriate and, above all, sensible to defer the consideration of the item for some time in order to facilitate th…
The draft resolution and the draft Agreement which have been put to the vote are the result of great efforts to achieve universality of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was signed in Jamaica on 10 December 1982.
Cuba had the honour of being one of its 119 signatories and h…
For South Africa, the April 1994 elections marked the end of centuries of injustice. For black Africa, they meant the culmination of an entire era of struggle for the liberation of the continent. For the world, it was the victory of a struggle that elicited unprecedented global support and demonstra…
The Latin American and Caribbean Group has always attached great importance to the work of the Economic and Social Council. As Chairman of the Group for the month of October, I have the honour to inform the Assembly that for the four positions to be filled from our region the Group has endorsed the …
My delegation wishes to explain its position on draft resolution A/48/L.13 and Corr.1, just adopted under agenda item 14, "Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency". As we pointed out during the debate on this item, the Cuban delegation attaches much importance, generally speaking, to the Ag…
Nuclear energy has proven to be an important factor in the solution of many of the global problems of our planet. I wish therefore to take this opportunity, on behalf of my country, to reiterate our support for the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its contribution to the pea…
The members of the Latin American and Caribbean Group of States learned with profound sorrow of the death on 21 October of the President of the Republic of Burundi, Mr. Melchior Ndadaye, and of prominent members of his Government as a result of a bloody coup d’état in that fraternal African country.…
As Chairman of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I have the honour of informing the General Assembly that the Group supports and endorses Argentina as the single candidate from our region
I wish first to convey my delegation’s appreciation of the statement made this morning by the
The Brazilian initiative is all the more praiseworthy compared with the situation of previous years, when the report of the Security Council was not even properly introduced to the Assembly and when many C…
My delegation would like to join preceding speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your election, and we wish to express our willingness to cooperate with you. We know that given your experience and wisdom these high- level meetings will be crowned with success.
I should like to commend the work be…
My delegation wishes to explain its position on draft resolution A/48/L.5, which was submitted under agenda item 155 by the delegations of the European Economic Community and others, and which is entitled "Assistance in mine clearance."
My delegation associates itself with those delegations that ha…
It cannot be claimed that any atmosphere of cordiality exists when criminal policies continue to be carried out in an attempt to starve my small country to death, solely because we have a dream of independence to which we hold fast and a plan for social justice that fits our own conditions. The powe…
I come from a free, small and sovereign island in Latin America. My ancestors were able to shed the yoke of a colonial empire and achieve an independence that, since the moment of its birth, has been burdened by the interventionist impositions of a foreign power. I belong to a people that was able, …
