Allow me to begin by expressing our condolences on the very premature death of Judge James Crawford, a distinguished member of the International Court of Justice who served the international community. I would also like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan E. Dono…
I would like to thank the President for his invitation to contribute to this important matter, and I join in the acknowledgements of previous speakers.
On 10 September, Secretary-General António Guterres presented to the Assembly the document entitled Our Common Agenda. On that day, I thanked him f…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).
First of all, let me express our deep appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this high-level meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the …
I thank President Bozkır and his team for their work. They have shown us that in difficult times and equally difficult conditions it is still possible to strengthen the work of the Assembly. I would also like to express Ecuador’s deep gratitude to the co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Rev…
I would like to thank President Bozkır for convening this plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests. I also commend the leadership shown by Kazakhstan and would like to express my delegation’s appreciation for the statement delivered on behalf of Secretar…
I will begin my statement by expressing my gratitude for the work led by the delegations of Canada and Egypt and for the reports submitted by the former and the current Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Rae and Ambassador Edrees, respectively. We would also like to welcome the work …
Ecuador joins the consensus on the adoption of today’s draft oral decision, as proposed earlier. We were ready to support the draft as you, Mr. President, presented it on 11 June, but I stress that today an element much more important than wording is being preserved — that is, consensus.
I would li…
Ecuador supports the procedure through which you have presented the draft oral decision to roll over the intergovernmental negotiations process to the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly. It is important to protect and preserve that procedure. Through you, Mr. President, I would also like …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the presentation of the annual report of the Security Council (A/75/2). Ecuador aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group. As we are attendi…
We are grateful to the President for convening this meeting, which is taking place at a crucial moment. We believe that lasting peace can be achieved only through a definitive and just political solution for the parties, based on the existence of two States and in accordance with the relevant United…
I thank the President for convening this plenary meeting on a topic of such great importance, which requires serious and exhaustive analysis in the General Assembly. I also want to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the subject (A/75/863).
In 2005, Ecuador supported the adoption of resol…
Like other developing countries, Ecuador has seen an increase in threats and challenges to the sustainable use of our oceans and their resources. In that regard, we welcome the reports of the Secretary-General on oceans and the law of the sea (A/75/70 and A/75/340), which warn of those threats and c…
I wish to begin my statement by thanking Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates and Ambassador Joanna Wronecka of Poland for their leadership during the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on
Security Council reform.
We r…
Allow me to read out a statement by the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, Ambassador Cristian Espinosa Cañizares.
“At the outset, Ecuador congratulates Ambassador Egriselda Aracely González López, Permanent Representative of El Salvador, on her appointment as co-Chair of th…
First of all, I would like to thank the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ambassador Rafael Grossi, for his briefing and work as the first Latin American at the helm of the IAEA, in 2020 — a year that has been upended by the coronavirus disease pandemic.
I would als…
My delegation takes the floor to explain its vote on draft amendment A/75/L.12 and on resolution 75/4 as a whole.
During the informal consultations, Ecuador supported the inclusion of the Executive Director of the World Health Organization in the opening segment of the thirty-first special session …
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, for the presentation of the report on the activities of the Court for the period 1 August 2019 to 31 July 2020, contained in document A/75/4.
My delegation aligns itself with the de…
My delegation thanks the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, for his briefing on the report of the International Criminal Court on its activities in 2019 and 2020 (see A/75/324 and A/75/324/Corr.1). We also welcome draft resolution A/75/L.5, introduced today …
I have the honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement of His Excellency Mr. Lenin Moreno Garcés, Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador, at the general debate of the seventy-fifth session of the Assembly.
First of all, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for briefing the General Assembly on his report on the work of the Organization (A/74/1), whose content leads us to reflect on the relevance of multilateralism and to reiterate, once again, our common purposes and principles, especially this …
