On behalf of my Government, I would like to express my appreciation and respect for the work the United Nations has done during the last 12 months — a year in which another 17 people have lost their lives in the line of United Nations duty in different international theatres, many of them in acts of…
First of all I would like to warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, and wish you every success with your work. I would like to thank Foreign Minister Gurirab for his dedication in chairing the fifty-fourth session of the Genera…
The dawn of the new millennium is an appropriate time to take stock and look together for ways of strengthening the United Nations as the central Organization for maintaining international peace and security. At the same time, we Germans will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the restoration o…
I would like to associate myself with the comments of previous
speakers. I would also like to refer to the rumours continuing to circulate in the corridors about planned summits, in connection with the Millennium Summit, of two other United Nations organs, namely, the Security Council and the Econo…
I of course associate myself fully with the statement made by our Portuguese colleague on behalf of the European Union. I have asked for the floor to make some additional remarks because the German Government has initiated a process that should lead to concrete suggestions on how to enhance the role…
I appreciate that Member States that are not members of the Council but are highly involved in the implementation of the Dayton/Paris Peace Agreement are being given an opportunity to express their views on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. My Government very much welcomes this step towards m…
It might be useful to recall the wording of the resolution of the General Assembly with which the whole reform process started. As early as December 1993, the General Assembly recognized
“the need to review the membership of the Security Council and related matters in view of the substantial increa…
It is with great pleasure that I inform the Assembly that the 102nd Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference in Berlin elected a woman to the post of President of the IPU Council. Ms. Heptulla, who is here today, is the first female President in the 110-year history of the IPU.
Cooperation betwe…
The Security Council is presenting its annual report for the fifty-fourth time. This comprehensive, long document bears witness to the manifold activities of the Security Council during the period under review. The report reflects the enormous workload, which has again increased compared with the pr…
Let me first thank the Secretary-General and his collaborators for a comprehensive report. The United Nations has made tremendous efforts to meet last year's various challenges. The problems have indeed been unusually numerous and serious. The last 12 months, which the Secretary-General himself call…
The current year has been declared the International Year of Older Persons. It is dedicated to the concerns of a special group within our population, older persons. However, the theme, “Towards a society for all ages”, clearly demonstrates the need for all members of society to become involved.
In …
First of all, I would like to warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly and to wish you every success in this difficult office.
I should also like to thank Foreign Minister Opertti for his tireless dedication in successfully…
As a member of the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General on Georgia, Germany fully supports and welcomes the draft resolution before the Council today. The draft contains several important messages addressed directly to the parties, reflecting our grave concern and the sense of urgency in the fa…
I am speaking as the Presidency of the European Union. I would like to inform the Security Council of the following statement, adopted today by the European Council at its meeting in Berlin. The heads of State and Government of the European Union “are deeply concerned about the failure of the mediat…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — and the associated country Cyprus align themsel…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia — and the associated country Cyprus align themselves with t…
I speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The following countries align themselves with this statement: the Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia — and the associ…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia — and the associated country Cyprus, as well as t…
Let me, at the outset, express my full support for the statement made by my Austrian colleague on behalf of the European Union.
When, in 1948, United Nations representatives from all parts of the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they wanted to give an answer to the unprecede…
My delegation fully associates itself with the statement just delivered by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union. In particular, Germany fully subscribes to the European Union's commitment to the worldwide promotion and consolidation of new or restored democracies and support…
