I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on the assumption of your country, Singapore, to the presidency of the Security Council for the current month. I should like also to congratulate your country and the other new members of the Council and to wish them success in the discharge of t…
On behalf of the Arab Group, my delegation, as Chairman of the Group for December, wishes to explain its vote.
With the adoption of resolution 55/180 today, this is the fifth year in which the General Assembly has called on Israel to bear its responsibility by paying the costs incurred as a result …
I would like to explain briefly Egypt’s vote on the amendment to draft resolution A/55/L.69.
After carefully considering the draft resolution before us today, the delegation of Egypt decided to abide by the recommendations of the coordinator of the item, especially since these recommendations coin…
A year ago, the Egyptian delegation delivered a statement on the agenda item which the General Assembly is considering again today. It is regrettable that an entire year has elapsed without any improvement in the humanitarian situation of the war-stricken Afghan people, which has suffered for over 2…
The Egyptian delegation is pleased to introduce draft resolution A/55/L.61, entitled “Special emergency economic assistance to the Comoros”, on behalf of its sponsors — Afghanistan, Algeria, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Ara…
I have asked to speak in exercise of the right of reply to respond to the Israeli representative’s accusation that Egypt and the Arab countries have submitted false claims on the events in the occupied Arab territories. However, we wish to confirm that the accusations we have spoken of have been doc…
I have asked for the floor to explain my delegation’s vote on the resolution just adopted by the General Assembly on measures to eliminate international terrorism. It is an honour for me to inform the Assembly that all the Arab delegations have endorsed this statement.
All the Arab States condemn t…
The delegation of Egypt has asked for the floor to explain its position with regard to the resolution on assistance in mine action, which has just been adopted.
At the outset, I wish to point out that this is an extremely important subject for Egypt, as it is one of the countries most heavily affec…
Allow me to begin by expressing our deep appreciation to the Ambassador of South Africa for his full presentation of the draft resolution before us today. I would also like to thank the Ambassador of the United Kingdom for his initiative in asking for inclusion of a new item on the agenda of the Gen…
I should like to introduce the two draft resolutions
proposed under agenda item 40, A/55/L.49, entitled “Jerusalem”, and A/55/L.50, entitled “The Syrian Golan”.
Lebanon and Togo have joined in sponsoring draft resolution A/55/L.49.
The preambular part of draft resolution A/55/L.49 recalls the res…
On this very date in 1947 the General Assembly adopted resolution 181 (III), which changed the course of Middle East history. It partitioned British-mandate Palestine into two States, one Arab and the other Jewish, and established a separate regime for the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif.
Today, on the I…
Egypt attaches particular importance to the problem of landmines and to the international efforts to assist affected countries. We do so because we have suffered for over 50 years from the problem of landmines and unexploded ordnance.
It is from this realistic perspective that the delegation of Egy…
The Egyptian delegation would like at the outset to express its gratitude to the Secretary-General for his reports on the various agenda items before us. Egypt believes that the time has come to consider the question of the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and that we must take a firm s…
Two days ago, on 20 November, Egypt recalled its Ambassador from Tel Aviv following the unacceptable, unprecedented and unjustified intensification of systematic Israeli bombings of Palestinian government buildings and installations in the Gaza Strip. Egypt did so in the hope of sending a clear and …
For the eighth year in a row, the General Assembly is
dealing with the question of the expansion and reform of the Security Council. It is evident that these past few years have allowed the Member States, as individuals and groups, to formulate and present their positions clearly on numerous occasi…
Over a whole decade, Egypt has been closely observing with grave concern the deterioration of the situation in the territories of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the eruption of racial conflicts and aggression perpetrated by one group against another. We have also followed the failure of the …
The question that we are considering today is of particular importance, given its link to the future of relations between the civilizations of today. It is an attempt to understand the beliefs and the outlooks of others. That is essential and is an important basis for international relations and for…
African countries made tremendous efforts to reform and improve their domestic, economic, political and social environments during the 1990s, and in so doing encountered major obstacles and difficulties. Those efforts, as is noted in the report (A/55/350) of the Secretary-General, have led to progre…
It would seem that I was not understood because I spoke in English. But I think I was clear. The representative of Israel, as usual, again is distorting facts and getting things mixed up. He speaks of religion and then accuses others of speaking of it. That is nothing new.
The Egyptian delegation r…
Once more, the representative of Israel is attempting to alter and distort the facts pertaining to the escalation of violence in Palestine and trying to avoid pinning the situation on anybody. The representative of Israel is ignoring the well-documented facts that the violence was a consequence of, …
