We welcomed the World Television Forum, which was attended, along with other people, by high-level representatives of German television. It was a useful event. However, we have problems with the draft resolution before us for three reasons.
First, there are already three United Nations days encompa…
Germany is pleased to introduce a draft resolution (A/51/L.49) in two parts, entitled “Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan” and “The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security”. The draft resolu…
Allow me first to endorse fully the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Ireland on behalf of the European Union.
This is, above all, a cause for relief and satisfaction after the four years of bloody fighting. And it is a reason to pay tribute to all those men and women in the multina…
Germany welcomes the recent progress made by the parties to the Angolan peace process in implementing the relevant provisions of the Lusaka Protocol. The international community has invested significant resources in the Angolan peace process during the last couple of years and has a strong vested in…
Allow me to convey through you, Mr. President, my deep appreciation of the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and its presentation by the Tribunal’s President.
Germany is highly conscious of the pivotal function of the Tribunal’s work. In our view, the successful work of the T…
We welcome the improvements outlined in the addendum to the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (UNSMIH) of 12 November 1996 (S/1996/813/Add.1), especially in regard to the improvement of the security situation in Haiti. Fortunately, the rebuilding of the police…
We welcome the presentation of the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. It reflects the vast agenda with which the Council had to deal between June of last year and June of this year. As the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Wisnumurti, put it, the report is a guide to…
Allow me to convey my deep appreciation of the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and its presentation by the Tribunal’s President. Given my Government’s deep respect for the independence of the International Criminal Tribunal, I shall of course refrain from comm…
The constantly deteriorating situation, the great human suffering and the fate of more than one million refugees in the Great Lakes region have for quite some time been a matter of deep concern to my Government.
My Government fully supports the decision the Security Council is about to take to auth…
Allow me first to join other delegations in expressing our condolences to the delegation of India on the loss of so many lives in the recent cyclone.
The German delegation of course fully associates itself with the statement of the Permanent Representative of Ireland on behalf of the European Union…
The President of the General Assembly will also preside over the deliberations 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 during the fifty-first session. I wis…
The report of the Secretary- General on international assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Nicaragua (A/51/263), which has been presented today, illustrates in a vivid manner the many and successful steps Nicaragua has taken, after years of internal conflict, towards peace, the co…
Since the Security Council met on 9 April this year to have a discussion on Afghanistan, the situation in this war-torn country has further deteriorated. Instead of committing themselves to all-inclusive political negotiations, the Afghan parties have continued to prefer war to peace, to the detrime…
Let me start by thanking the Secretary-General and his collaborators for the report on the work of the Organization. This is the fifth report of its kind. My delegation welcomes it. The thorough and detailed report gives a true picture of the difficult work done over the past year. It accurately ref…
Allow me to express a personal welcome at this formal debate to the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, who have come to New York to express the concerns of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries regarding the Angolan peace process. I beli…
Allow me first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the way in which you have steered the Security Council through a very difficult month.
The recent dramatic developments in the Palestinian territories and in Jerusalem fill us with grave concern. I would like, on behalf of my Government, to expr…
Last year we took stock of half a century of United Nations history. The rock we are pushing up the hill like Sisyphus always seems to roll back a little. We must not be discouraged by this. It remains our responsibility to do what we solemnly reaffirmed on the fiftieth anniversary of the world Orga…
Germany will vote in favour of the draft resolution on the communication which has been presented at the request of this Council by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on the incident which occurred on 24 February 1996 and which led to the shooting down of two United States-based un…
Let me begin by saying that Germany fully supports the statement made by the representative of Ireland on behalf of the European Union.
It is evident that the contacts between the parties, assisted by the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy and by the Russian Federation as facilitator, have so far ha…
Allow me at the beginning of my statement to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to wish you every success in your work. Naturally, you can count on our close cooperation with you. It is in a feeble effort to express our feelings of great friendshi…
