African migrations have enriched Latin America and the
As parts of the developing world, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean confront similar problems and agree on the need for change in the prevailing unjust international economic order. President Houphouët-Boigny played an outstanding role…
On behalf of the States members of the Latin American
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It is my honour on behalf of all States members of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States which have joined in sponsoring the draft resolution A/48/L.35 to introduce that draft resolution on agenda item 31, entitled "The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti".
In 1990, the Gene…
Before I begin my statement, I should like to express to the representative of Panama my delegation’s sorrow at the passing of his Foreign Minister, Mr. Julio Linares.
Ecuador has come to this great gathering - in which we consider it a great privilege to participate - convinced that we have a sing…
The delegation of Ecuador welcomes the initiative of the States members of the European Community and by the Nordic countries in proposing to the Assembly, in draft resolution A/48/L.5, that a series of actions should be taken by the international community to deal with the serious problem of the mi…
I am pleased to convey my congratulations to Ambassador Samuel Insanally, the Permanent Representative of Guyana and a distinguished member of our Latin American and Caribbean Group, on his well-deserved election as President of the General Assembly.
A short while ago, we were hailing the end of th…
The coup
d'etat that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on 30 September 1991
moved world public opinion and in particular that of Latin America. Until
that moment, and for the first time this century, Haiti had enjoyed an
undeniably democratic Government, the result of free elections in …
Mr. President, before entering into the substance of my statement, may I say
how pleased Ecuador is to see you presiding over the work of the General
Assembly at its forty-seventh session.
It is also my duty to convey the deep sorrow felt by my Government and
people at the serious loss of life a…
I bring to this world forum the fraternal greetings of the people of Ecuador and its
a~:rl, first and foremost, the nuclear-arms race, which 75. Ecuador was one of the founding countries of has increased the danger of a new world war which, the United Nations. We are on the eve of celebrating under…
I have the honour to submit for the consid- eration of the General Assembly draft resolution A/37/L.36, sponsored by all the countries of the Western hemisphere as well as by Equatorial Guinea, Italy, the Philippines, Portugal and Spain, 'on the observance of the quincentenary of the discovery of Am…
I support what the representative of Venezuela has just said. We have seen this' morning the complex procedures, the numerous statements and the votes required to modify an item approved and submitted by the General Committee; these would only be magnified in the case of an item approved in plenary …
The delegation of Ecuador will abstain in the vote on one of the draft resolutions on the situation in the Middle East, not because of the principles mentioned therein and the declarations rejecting aggression, annexa- tionist practices, occupation and the retention of territories by force and viola…
I refer specifically to draft resolution VI, en- titled "United Nations Development Programme", on which we shall vote in favour, to state quite particularly that our support stems from the fact that, in case of a Programme as important as is this positive North-South action within the United Nation…
The delegation of Ecuador, faithful to its con- stant policy of·reje.;;ting any type of racial discrimination, and in particular the shameful form which this takes in the policy of apartheid of the Government of South Af- rica, has voted in favour of all the draft resolutions sub- mitted on this ite…
The item on development and strengthening of good-neighbourliness between States is of great impor- tance to Ecuador and is also the very essence of the pur- poses and principles of the United Nations. During the debate in the First Committee my delegation pointed out the prime significance we attac…
From the statement of the Peruvian representative I take into account his admission of his country's use of force in 1981, but I also wish to affirm that for its part Ecuador stands ever. ready to engage in friendly dialogue in the search for a peaceful solution of our dispute.
228. I emphasize the…
Permit me, Sir, before 1" begin my statement to express the profound SOllOW that my country feels over the death of President Sadat, a death which is a cause for grief among all peace-loving nations.
2. Mr. President, in you I greet one whose intell~ctual qualifications a.."e worthy of the presiden…
The Foreign Minister of Peru has seen fit in this Assembly today to refer to the territorial problem con- fror-ling Ecuador and Peru with regard to the important reference to it in the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as fo!lows: ". . . the Governments of Ecuador and Peru decid…
Had we been consulted, we would have expressed our favourable view with regard to the substance of the text of draft resolution A/35/L.49 and Add.l and several of its paragraphs, because we are in favour of a solution which seeks to find peace in the Middle East, rejecting as we do the occupation of…
The position of Ecuador on the question of Cyprus has always been clear-cut and our concern has been constant. For reasons of principle, we fully sup- port the sovereignty, independence and territorial in- tegrity of the Republic of Cyprus. We further uphold the principle of non-intervention in the …
