This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. Yet in today’s world we are far from having achieved global peace. It therefore remains a major task for the international community to achieve it. But that is not the only task that remains. In order to achieve global pe…
The Czech Republic is pleased to join other Member States in co-sponsoring the draft resolution on the situation in Afghanistan (A/68/L.11). The draft resolution reflects the fact that
the international community remains committed to supporting the Afghan people in building a secure, stable and pro…
Let me thank the Azerbaijan presidency of the Security Council for scheduling this important debate and the Secretary- General for his report (S/2013/525), as well as today’s briefers for their updates.
We highly welcome the adoption today of resolution 2122 (2013) and align ourselves with the stat…
I am pleased to represent the Czech Republic today at this High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
The Czech Republic fully supports the statements delivered earlier by the European Union’s Home Affairs Commissioner and Lithuania’s Minister of the Interior on behalf of the E…
The Assembly is meeting at a time marked by significant challenges. Let me mention a few which I regard as the most pressing.
The state of the world economy remains fragile, but slowly we seem to be entering a path towards economic recovery and, hopefully, sustainable growth. The security situation…
Let me first congratulate the organizers and facilitators of this meeting for their efforts. I would like to stress that combating human trafficking is a major challenge for today’s globalized world. We would like to emphasize that the Czech Republic pays special attention to this topic and highly a…
It is my honour and pleasure to address this meeting on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers and to warmly welcome the first State of the World’s Volunteerism Report, which has been launched today. We consider it an important contribution to the global discus…
We have assembled here to review the progress made in combating the AIDS epidemic around the world. I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on having convened such a successful and well-attended High-level Meeting. The quality of the parallel round tables has undoubtedly contributed to furt…
My delegation fully associates itself with the statement just delivered on behalf of the European Union.
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on having organized this important debate. We highly appreciate the efforts of your country to promote the post-conflict peacebuil…
The Czech Republic decided to vote in favour of resolution 64/296. We are convinced that the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees in Georgia, which has not changed since this case was brought for the first time before this Assembly, requires the attention of the international commu…
It is my honour and pleasure to address this High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to review progress in the fulfilment of the Millennium Declaration, which the Czech Republic fully supports.
We welcome the political will to achieve the MDGs by 2015, which is to be c…
Let me start by thanking the current President of the Security Council, Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, the Permanent Representative of Austria, for his presentation of the report of the Security Council (A/64/2). I would like to also acknowledge the efforts deployed by the delegation of Uganda in t…
The Czech Republic continues to be strongly committed to fundamental humanitarian principles. It is deeply concerned over the humanitarian and human rights situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Georgia. Recent conflicts in that country have led to the displacement of many people, many …
The Czech Republic would like to align itself with the statement delivered previously by the Permanent Representative of Sweden on behalf of the European Union.
Let me begin by commending the efforts of the Secretary-General and his contributions to today’s debate. We warmly welcome the recent repo…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The
candidate countries of Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, as well a…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The candidate countries Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, the European Free Trade Assoc…
It is an honour and a privilege to speak on behalf of the European Union. The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia;…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of European Union (EU). The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania and Montenegro, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova,…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; the countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia; as well …
I am not going to speak about a text that we have not had a chance to
read, because we were given this text only a couple of minutes ago. I would, however, like to speak on the process.
The European Union, on whose behalf I speak, has repeatedly expressed its strong interest in doing its utmost to…
