The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are critical to our global effort to meet the challenges posed by poverty, disease and conflict. Since their adoption 10 years ago, the world has undergone significant changes, yet the Goals are as important as ever. Despite the emergence of a new global lands…
The Belgian presidency has clearly outlined the positions of the European Union. I would, of course, like to align myself fully with that statement and reinforce some general points based on our own experience.
This meeting is indeed an occasion not only to review the Strategy but to celebrate that…
At the outset, I should like to express my own behalf and on behalf of the Government and people of Denmark our sincere and heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with the hard-tried people of Pakistan, who have suffered such tragic loss of human life and livelihood following the devastating floods.
I w…
At this moment in time, major economic and environmental challenges are giving rise to increasing global concerns and impacting people all over this planet. To meet those challenges effectively, we need, more than ever, a dynamic and proactive multilateral system. We need the United Nations to provi…
My Government warmly welcomes the initiative by the Council to hold this special ministerial meeting today in order to address the growing problems posed by piracy off the coast of Somalia. In itself, the meeting underlines how piracy has rapidly developed into a significant challenge to the entire …
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important meeting. I would also like to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for promoting the initiative of this important event. Denmark highly appreciates efforts to foster interfaith dialogue. The attendanc…
Denmark is a strong supporter of the International Court of Justice. Denmark has for more than 50 years accepted the Court’s compulsory jurisdiction under Article 36 of the Statute of the Court. We have been a party to a number of contentious cases before the Court, thereby also in practice attestin…
My Government agrees entirely with the Secretary-General’s remarks at the opening of this debate. The world is on the eve of a great transition. The problems we face have grown much more complex, and our challenges are increasingly those of collaboration rather than confrontation. The quality of lif…
The French presidency has clearly outlined the position of the European Union. Denmark would like to align itself fully with the statement and to reinforce some general points based on its own experience.
What the General Assembly agreed upon in 2006 was, in our view, a landmark decision. For the f…
On behalf of the delegations of the Nordic States — Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and my own country, Denmark — I would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Hisashi Owada, for the excellent report on the work of the Court over the past year (A/64/4). Before tur…
I welcome this opportunity to address the General Assembly and shall at the very outset align myself with the statement of Slovenia as President of the European Union.
The world is full of paradoxes. We all know that, but it is unbelievable here, eight years into the new millennium, that so many wo…
Denmark welcomes this thematic debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is urgent to make 2008 a year of action on the MDGs. We need to do more and we need to do it faster. The key question then is, of course, what can be done quickly and with significant impact? Where do we need to foc…
I very much welcome this opportunity to address the Assembly and shall, at the very outset, align myself with the statement made at the 80th meeting by the representative of Slovenia, which currently holds the Presidency of the European Union.
Climate change is a tremendous challenge to the interna…
I would like to begin my intervention by extending condolences to the Government and the people of Algeria, victims of a heinous terrorist attack only two days ago. The bombs were also an attack on the United Nations system and on the world community. Our sincere condolences go to the families of al…
I thank the President of the General Assembly for providing this opportunity to discuss one of the major achievements of the United Nations reform process — the establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission.
I would first of all like to align myself with the statement made by the representative of …
At the Millennium Summit in 2000, an unprecedented number of world leaders came together and committed themselves to an ambitious global agenda for the years ahead. This agenda was further reinforced at the 2005 World Summit, where we also adopted the far-reaching principle of responsibility to prot…
Under resolution 2758 (XXVI), of 25 October 1971, the Government of the People’s Republic of China is recognized as the sole representative of China. Denmark’s support for the one-China policy is firm, and has been a consistent element of Denmark’s foreign policy since 1950. Accordingly, Denmark sup…
Allow me to start by associating myself with the statement made by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the European Union.
Five years ago in Monterrey, a compact was forged between rich and poor countries in support of the objectives contained in the Millennium Declaration. Developing count…
I too wish to start by thanking Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, and Ambassador Liberata Mulamula for their briefings. Denmark appreciates this opportunity to discuss the issue of peace, security and development in the Great Lakes region.…
I would like to brief the Council as outgoing Chairman of the Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC) as well as of the Sanctions Committee on Liberia.
I took over as Chairman of the CTC at a time when the Committee was just waiting for its new support structure, its Executive Directorate (CTED), to be …
