First of all, let me thank our former President of the General Assembly and Chairman of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Related to the Security Council, Ambassador Udovenko, as well a…
For the fifty-third time, the Security Council is presenting an annual report to the General Assembly. As in previous years, Germany welcomes this presentation. The report is the result of enormous efforts made by the Secretariat staff to give the general membership more than a rough idea of the wor…
I would like first of all to thank the Secretary-General and his associates for their timely report on the work of the Organization. They have presented us with a document that vividly depicts the complex and difficult problems that confronted the Organization over the past 12 months.
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I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election. I wish you good fortune and all of us a successful session.
I should also like to thank Ambassador Udovenko for the dedicated way he conducted the business of the fifty- second session. He advanced the reform process at the United Nations and kep…
It is a great pleasure for me to extend the congratulations of my Government to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session. We wish you great success in the forthcoming deliberations.
At the same time, we should also like to support the statement…
It is my pleasure and honour to introduce a draft resolution on the Agreement on Cooperation and Relationship between the United Nations and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the General Assembly today. Thirty-eight countries are listed as sponsors on the draft resolution. In addi…
My delegation welcomes the fact that the item on the reform of the Security Council is again on the General Assembly’s agenda, both earlier today in the meeting of the Working Group dealing with this matter and now in plenary. The item remains of the utmost importance to the Organization. It is, in …
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. This is particularly so because this draft resolution contains several important messages addressed directly to the parties, reflecting our grav…
Let me belatedly take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and at the same time to express my appreciation for the outstanding performance of your predecessor, Ambassador Mahugu of Kenya.
I would also like to affirm that Germany ful…
Allow me first to congratulate you, Sir, on your reassumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I am sure that the work of the Council will greatly benefit from your experience.
Germany fully subscribes to the statement made by the Presidency of the European Union. My Government welcomes t…
At the outset, Sir, let me express my delegation's satisfaction and my personal pleasure at having seen you preside over this month's Security Council meetings — and, especially, over today's meeting, which marks an important step in the efforts to bring peace to Kosovo. Let me add that my complimen…
I am pleased to introduce draft resolution A/52/L.68 on Afghanistan under agenda items 20 (c) and 43. I would like to thank all those delegations that have participated in the joint effort leading to the
presentation of today's text. The draft is also sponsored by the following Member States: Afgha…
Let me express my gratitude for this welcome occasion to address the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is of primary concern to Germany and of crucial importance for peace and stability in Europe as a whole. The needless pain and suffering that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardle…
For several weeks, many of us have been working to prepare for the discussion on agenda item 59. I am pleased that today offers another opportunity to make a couple of remarks on the issue. It is first and foremost here in the General Assembly that the important issues are and must be decided.
You,…
Let me first of all state that my delegation fully associates itself with the statement just delivered by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.
Germany, together with some 30 other countries, attended as an observer the Third International Conference of the New…
The report of the Secretary- General on the work of the Organization stands out for many reasons: it is short and concise; it is comprehensive, analytical and thought-provoking. It should be presented to a wide readership. It lays out the threads which we, the Member States, must pick up in order to…
Allow me to convey through you, Sir, my deep appreciation of the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and of its presentation by the Tribunal’s President, Judge Antonio Cassese. I associate myself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Luxembour…
Germany welcomes the presentation of the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly, and thanks the Council President, Ambassador Juan Somavía of Chile, for his introductory remarks. The report reflects the vast agenda the Council had to deal with between June 1996 and June 1997. The mer…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming your responsible office. Major decisions are to be taken at this session and I wish you good fortune in your conduct of the proceedings.
I wish to thank Ambassador Razali for his exceptional commitment. He has made us all aware of the great responsibil…
Let me begin by saying that Germany fully associates itself with the statement made by the distinguished Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.
On the basis of Council resolutions 1101 (1997) and 1114 (1997), the multinational protection force played a decisive role…
