It is a great pleasure to have Mr. Jean Ping presiding over the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. I am confident that his wealth of experience and the friendly ties that his sisterly country enjoys with all countries of the world will be a major asset for the Assembly as it discharges its…
The General Assembly is meeting today to reaffirm the international community’s commitment to strengthening the culture of peace and universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without any distinctions as to race, gender, language or religion. This meeting follows the High-l…
The question of Palestine is today at an extremely important and sensitive juncture — as sensitive and critical a juncture as that in 1947 when the General Assembly adopted its resolution to partition Palestine into two States for two peoples: one for the Israelis and the other for the Palestinians.…
Egypt condemns and deeply deplores extrajudicial assassinations of Palestinians by the Israeli army, in contravention of all humanitarian considerations and the norms of international humanitarian law, the latest of which was the assassination of Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi.
With such illegal acts, Israe…
The delegation of Egypt thanks the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Oman and the Omani delegation for their vigorous efforts to mobilize international support in addressing the global road safety crisis. Egypt is a sponsor of draft resolution A/58/L.60/Rev.1, which is before the Assembly this morning…
This year the General Assembly is again addressing the question of the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict and reaffirming the need to continue international collective action, under United Nations auspices, to study the root causes of conflicts in all their aspects, particularly in Africa, where …
In keeping with our position, which we made clear during the discussion of agenda item 127, “Human resources management”, in formal and informal meetings of the Fifth Committee, the delegation of Egypt would like to state the following points.
First, the resolution the Assembly has just adopted ref…
Egypt has expressed with utmost clarity its unequivocal condemnation and total rejection of the reprehensible operation undertaken by Israel in its extrajudicial
assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Egypt has made clear its opinion that this was both an illegal and an irresponsible act that failed…
The report of the Secretary-General on the progress achieved in the implementation of the recommendations of the Security Council mission to Central Africa (S/2004/52) reflects something that my delegation would like to emphasize today before the Security Council, namely, that despite the signs of p…
I promise that I shall keep within the five-minute time limit allotted to each speaker, even if that should mean stopping in the middle of my statement.
I wish to raise a number of issues in my comments on the progress report of the Secretary-General on the Security Council mission to West Africa.
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The Egyptian delegation is pleased to attend this meeting under your presidency, Sir, in order to discuss a vital issue that affects every continent — although the continent of Africa, to which Egypt belongs, is the most severely affected: there, wars and conflicts are further fuelled by small arms …
My delegation would like to make a correction to draft resolution A/58/L.11/Rev.2. Paragraph 2 should read as follows.
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“Takes note with appreciation of the adoption of the International Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by the General Conference…
The delegation of Egypt joined the consensus of the General Assembly in its consideration of agenda item 158. Nevertheless, we should like to place on record the following two points.
First, the Egyptian delegation expresses its dissatisfaction at the precedent of the Assembly reconsidering in plen…
The beginning of the General Assembly’s work in its current session has coincided with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the two peace frameworks negotiated at Camp David. Despite periods when there was hope for the establishment of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle …
The previous year saw numerous developments concerning the Palestinian question. These ranged from continued violence and counter-violence — characteristic of Israeli-Palestinian relations since that unfortunate day at the end of September 2000 — to moments of hope born out of an earnest and sincere…
Egypt has the pleasure of introducing some amendments to the draft resolution in A/58/L.11.
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Revise preambular paragraph 2 to read as follows:
“Welcoming the ratification of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and the Natural Heritage by 176 States parties, a…
Mankind needs today, more than ever before, to make strenuous efforts to achieve harmony among peoples and international peace and security based on justice and equality in rights and duties.
In the context of this constant effort, we must have recourse to history to inform us and prove to us the p…
I wish to express the Egyptian delegation’s appreciation for the statement of Mr. ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The statement highlighted the Agency’s distinguished contribution to main activities during 2001-2002 and informed us of major future challe…
We stated a few minutes ago something about a very important issue — the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This is closely related to what we are discussing now, which is the return of Cultural Property to its countries of origin or its restitution in case of illicit appropriati…
We thank the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for his statement on UNESCO’s activities during the course of the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage last year.
I also thank UNESCO for all its efforts over the past decades to prot…
