At the outset, I would like to welcome the decision of the President of the General Assembly to convene this thematic debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly at this important juncture of the midway point to the agreed deadline of 2015 to achieve the Goals. This debate provid…
It gives me great pleasure at the outset to extend my thanks and greetings to the President of the General Assembly and to the Secretary-General for the great attention they have focused on the issue of sustainable development, including, inter alia, the question of climate change, which has become …
I am sorry to take the floor again on this, but has this matter been notified to the Credentials Committee or the General Committee? I am not aware of any notification to the General Committee or the Credentials Committee about this arrangement. I think that, according to the rules of procedure, suc…
I am taking the floor on a point of order. I note that Israel is voting on this draft resolution. At the same time, I see that a representative from the delegation of Andorra is sitting in the seat of Israel and exercising the vote on behalf of Israel. I would like to seek clarification and to deter…
Egypt believes in the importance of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and in its constructive role in eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. Egypt was also among the first countries to sign the international Convention that led to the establishment of t…
I am pleased to deliver the following statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights pr…
I should like at the outset to thank the members of the Caribbean Community for introducing the draft resolution adopted in the last session (resolution 61/19) to commemorate 25 March 2007 as the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. I also wish to thank them f…
At the outset, I should like to express our heartfelt sympathy to the people of Algeria on today’s bombings in Algiers.
Five years replete with developments have passed since the 2002 special session on children, whose outcome document (resolution S-27/2, annex) was entitled “A world fit for childr…
The General Assembly is meeting today to consider agenda item 17, entitled “The situation in the Middle East”, which aims at enhancing international engagement in the Arab-Israeli conflict, a conflict resulting from Israel’s ongoing occupation of Arab territories since 1967 and its catastrophic prac…
At the outset, I would like to express my delegation’s support for the content of the statement made by the representative of Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and the representative of Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The Assembly meets today to consider t…
Egypt attaches special importance to the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields, which have made major contributions to the agenda for action on international developmen…
The General Assembly is debating today one of the most important items on its agenda. That item acquires its importance from the nature of the role and authority of the Assembly, the chief deliberative and policymaking body and the most democratic organ of the Organization, not only because it compr…
At the outset, I would like to convey my appreciation to the Secretary-General for his reports. They help facilitate our discussion on strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations, a subject to which Egypt attaches great importance and attention. The real…
Allow me at the outset to associate myself with the statement to be delivered by the Ambassador of Angola on behalf of the African Group, and to express my deep appreciation to Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, for her concerted efforts to …
As a member of the General Committee, I fully support the proposal made by the President, which was reached through informal consultations in the General Committee and was adopted by consensus, on how to deal with this particular item.
I felt obliged to take the floor to compare what has happened t…
I start by expressing Egypt’s appreciation for the valuable introduction by Ms. Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), of the Court’s report on its work last year.
I wish to emphasize Egypt’s belief in the International Court’s major role in securing implementation …
My delegation underlines its welcome of draft resolution A/62/L.4 entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula”, sponsored by the delegations of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea. Also, my delegation would like to express Egypt’s support of th…
We thank Mr. ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his valuable presentation of the report on the Agency’s activities in various areas. This confirms the competence of the IAEA in performing its lofty mandate in achieving a balanced interest in the three m…
At the outset, I wish to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his report on progress in the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) (A/62/203) and on implementation of the recommendations in the report on the causes of conflict and the promotion of dur…
It is my pleasure to commence my statement by thanking the Peacebuilding Commission and the Secretary-General for the presentation of the first annual report of the Peacebuilding Commission on its first session (A/62/137) and the report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund (A/62/138).
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