I am speaking on behalf of the European Union, and Austria.
The European Union feels that, two years after the Rio Conference on Environment and Development, we are now able to register important progress in the area of sustainable development. The Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Coun…
It is an honour for me to address the Assembly today on behalf of the European Union and Austria on the very special occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
An institution which started its operations a quarter of a century ago has matured. It began w…
I have the honour to address the item on the International Conference on Families on behalf of the European Union.
Although the International Year of the Family is not yet over and although many activities related to the Year are still to come, allow me to congratulate the United Nations on the out…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union.
The European Union thanks the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his concise, comprehensive and informative report. It clearly demonstrates that the Agency can once again look back to a year of successful…
We have come a long way since we discussed the agenda item “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council” a year ago at the General Assembly’s forty-eighth session. Through the creation of an informal Working Group it was possible to focus the discus…
First, I should like to offer you, Sir, my personal congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session, and also those of the European Union, on whose behalf I am addressing the Assembly today. We wish you luck and success in your high office.
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Mr. President, allow me to assure you of my delegation’s full confidence in your wise counsel and guidance of the Council. I would also like to express our appreciation for the leadership shown by your predecessor, Ambassador Vorontsov.
I speak on behalf of the European Union and its member States.…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union in explanation of position after the adoption of the resolution on agenda item 121, creating an Office of Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations.
First, I should like to express our thanks to our Belgian colleague Peter Maddens, …
On behalf of the European Union, we wish to express our very great satisfaction that the efforts made in the consultations organized by the Secretary-General achieved a positive and very tangible result.
After four years of arduous consultations, crowned by the adoption of the present draft resolut…
It is a great pleasure for me to see you, Sir, presiding over the Security Council. Owing to your experience and leadership, the Council has been
As a member of the group of "Friends of Georgia", Germany has been closely involved in the discussions that have resulted in the draft resolution before …
It was with profound sadness and sorrow that the members of the Group of Western European and Other States, which I have the honour to represent, learned of the demise of our distinguished colleague, the Permanent Representative, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Chad, …
In the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council’s areas of primary responsibility are set out as maintaining international peace and security and ensuring prompt and effective action by the United Nations. It is therefore of the essence that the Security Council enjoy the greatest possibl…
In my capacity as the German Government’s Commissioner for Drug Control, I am gratified that the United Nations, by means of these four plenary meetings of the General Assembly attended by high-ranking participants, again professes its determination
The Belgian Minister for Justice and Economic Aff…
Please accept my warm congratulations, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. I wish you luck and success in your high office. At the same time, I extend a cordial welcome to the new Members of our Organization.
Addressing the Assembly 20 years ago, …
The Federal Republic of Germany is a member
State of the European Community; therefore we fully support the words of
appreciation of the Decade of Disabled Persons and the World Programme of
Action that have just been uttered by our British colleague on behalf of the
European Community.
We too …
* May I first extend to you, Mr. President, the congratulations of the Federal Republic of Germany on your election to your high office. We consider your personality, your extraordinary talents and your
8. This calls for what I would term an international domestic policy, a policy rooted in the con…
I wish to refer to resolution VIII, in part I of the report. The Governmeilt of the Federal Republic of Ger- many shares the deep concern of the international com- munity about the massive destruction of property and the serious damage to the economic and social infrastructure of Chad during the pas…
It is the understanding of my Government that op- erative paragraph 6 of draft resolution V, which we have just adopted, does not prejudge the agenda, in accordance . with the consensus on draft resolution n, of the session of a special character of the Governing Council of UNEP. It is also the unde…
The fact that my delegation has not·challenged the credentials of the Afghan delegation must be viewed in relation to our understanding of the competence of the Credentials Committee. We have always held the view that that Committee has solely the technical task of examining whether the credentials …
The Federal Republic of Germany joined in the consensus on this re~o" ~n for the reascns given in the statement of the member States of the European Community.
76. My delegation welcomes the growing role -'Of the OAU in the international community and unreservedly
