The United Nations is preparing to take up an ambitious agenda in 2005 that we hope will guide the Organization’s activities in the near future, meeting the challenges placed before it by the international community. I believe that the exercise completed and the achievements accomplished during this…
My delegation wishes to make the following explanation of vote in connection with the draft resolution that has just been put to the vote.
Ecuador maintains its traditional position of encouraging a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the Middle East question, in the light of the resolutions adop…
The delegation of Ecuador first wishes to commend the Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman for introducing onto the General Assembly’s agenda an issue of such importance to contemporary society as that of the global road safety crisis. Secondly, we wish to reaffirm the readiness of the Governm…
I would like to express my thanks for making possible this open debate in the Security Council to enable the international community to grasp the magnitude of the problems besetting Haiti. I also wish to thank the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Jamaica and Bahamas for their statements on behalf of…
It is an honour to address the Assembly on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States on the occasion of the well deserved tribute we are paying today to the distinguished Spanish diplomat, Mr. Jaime de Piniés. His long and brilliant career in
Spain’s foreign service as representati…
First, I wish to endorse the statement made by the delegate of Peru on behalf of the Rio Group.
On this special day, as we commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action adopted in Vienna in 1993, we are called upon …
The changes called for by the peoples of the members countries of this world Organization are directly related to its capacity to address current challenges and needs of the international community.
My delegation wishes to recall that there are mandates stemming from the most recent summits of the …
I wish to address the main elements in the debate on the issue before us, which I addressed previously when we considered the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization.
Security Council reform has been of concern to Ecuador for a number of years and is an issue on which we hav…
My delegation would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the way in which you are guiding the debates of the General Assembly and to reiterate that we stand ready to cooperate with you.
At the outset, I would like to support the statements made by the permanent representative of Peru, on beh…
Among the major questions regarding acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are its origin and causes, and how it became the epidemic which has spread to the point that it has become one of the worst pandemics ever to affect mankind. The crisis generated by HIV/AIDS flourishes in environments of p…
I wish to take the opportunity of this solemn occasion to inform the General Assembly, as we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), that the Government of Ecuador, mindful of the fundamental importance of th…
The creation of the Latin American Economic System on 17 October 1975 took place in an international environment dominated by bipolar confrontation, in the midst of which Latin America and the Caribbean sought to equip themselves with a truly regional organization under the exclusive control and man…
The presence of mines in the world has had grave economic and social consequences for people living in affected areas, due to their latent threat to local populations and the consequent impossibility of using broad areas of cultivable land, irrigation canals and roadways. It is increasingly evident …
My delegation takes special pleasure in expressing its full support for the draft resolution contained in document A/57/L.7 under agenda item 167, “South American zone of peace and cooperation”.
Ecuador and the other countries of South America base their international relations on the strictest res…
On behalf of the delegation of Ecuador, I am pleased to congratulate and thank the Secretary- General for the report on strengthening of the United Nations (document A/57/387) and to express our firm
and decisive support for the proposals contained therein. This valuable document reflects the need …
I should like at the outset to convey our sympathy and feelings of solidarity to the people of Indonesia and to the families affected by the senseless attacks a few days ago in Bali that claimed the lives of 200 innocent people. My delegation joins all those that have condemned this barbaric act aga…
On behalf of the delegation of Ecuador, which I have the honour to lead, I congratulate the Secretary-General on his report on the work of the Organization and on his follow-up report on the results of the Millennium Summit. Both documents are valuable and contribute to a multilateral approach to is…
First of all, on behalf of the delegation of Ecuador, let me congratulate you, Sir, and express our certainty that your professionalism and leadership will enable this Meeting of the General Assembly devoted to information and communication technologies for development to achieve concrete results fo…
I congratulate you, Sir, on your well-deserved election as President of the General Assembly. You are a worthy representative of the Republic of Korea, a country very close to my own through our important ties of friendship and cooperation. I also congratulate your predecessor on the highly efficien…
In the face of the heinous attack of 11 September, which not only affected the United States of America but also deeply wounded the conscience of humanity, outrage and the repudiation of terror were universal and unanimous. The Constitutional President of Ecuador, Mr. Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, said to…
