At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his statement, which reflects the efforts of the Agency to fulfil its objectives, particularly in the context of the global restrictions imposed by the coronavirus disease (…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements delivered earlier by the representative of Sierra Leone, on behalf of the Group of African States, and by the representative of Kuwait, on behalf of the Group of Arab States.
I would like to express my gratitude to Ambassador Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani …
Egypt will join the consensus and will co-sponsor draft resolution A/76/L.8/Rev.1, entitled “Follow-up to the report of the Secretary-General entitled ‘Our Common Agenda’”. We highly appreciate your kind efforts, Mr. President, towards achieving consensus on this important draft resolution. In the s…
We thank the President of the Human Rights Council for her presentation today (see A/76/PV.24).
The creation of the Human Rights Council reflects the aspiration of Member States to overcome the stalemate that had immobilized its predecessor as a result of polarization and selectivity. Should the pu…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representatives of Guinea, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and Eritrea, on behalf of the Group of African States. We would like to add the following remarks.
We wish to express our appreciation to the co-facilitators and their…
Egypt aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
We would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan E. Donoghue, for her comprehensive briefing on the report of the activities…
It is my pleasure to introduce His Excellency Mr. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, at the general debate of the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly.
On behalf of my delegation, I would like to introduce draft resolution A/75/L.129, entitled “United Nations action on sexual
exploitation and abuse”, submitted by Egypt under agenda item 134.
Egypt held a number of informal consultations on the draft resolution in the past month, during which we l…
At the outset, I would like to extend my congratulations to Ambassador De Rivière on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment
Programme, as well as Mr. Onanga-Anyanga, Special Envoy for…
Egypt aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Islamic Group (see A/75/PV.88).
We would like to express our appreciation to Ambassadors Mohamed Al Hassan and Agustín Santos Maraver, the Permanent Representatives of Oman and Spain, for their e…
Egypt associates itself with the interventions made by the Ambassador of Sierra Leone, on behalf of the Committee of Ten and the Ambassador of Kuwait on behalf of the Group of Arab States (see A/75/PV.80), with their clear and detailed expressions of positions, which I will not reiterate.
We apprec…
Egypt associates itself with the statements made by the Ambassadors of Eritrea, on behalf of the Group of African States, Sierra Leone, on behalf of the African Union Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government on Security Council reform (C- 10), and Kuwait, on behalf of the Group of Arab States.…
We align ourselves with the comments made by several delegations during this meeting about the contents of the report (A/75/2). We paid special attention to the comment made by the Ambassador and representative of Canada with regard to the particular role of the Peacebuilding Commission, which we ha…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the President for his efforts to hold this important meeting on the Palestinian question in the light of the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territory, and to the Secretary-General for his work and relentless efforts aimed at …
Notwithstanding the fundamental responsibility of Member States to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, as enshrined in numerous international human rights instruments, we believe that the notion of the responsibility to protect (R2P) sti…
Egypt supports the cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and stresses the need for that cooperation to reflect the OPCW’s commitment to discharging its responsibilities in an impartial, independent and professional manner, while r…
We thank the co-facilitators, Germany and Greece, for their spirit of flexibility and compromise during the consultations on the draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe” (resolution 75/264). We appreciate adopting a consensual and inclusive approac…
At the outset, I would like to subscribe to the statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the African coordinating mechanism on the Peacebuilding Commission, also know…
At the outset, I would like to express Egypt’s appreciation for the holding of this meeting on agenda item 37, entitled “The situation in the Middle East”, which includes a draft resolution (A/75/L.29) on the Syrian Golan, which Egypt submits to the General Assembly annually.
This year we are celeb…
I would like at the outset to express Egypt’s appreciation for the holding of this meeting to address agenda item 38, on the question of Palestine, which remains the central cause of Arab States and the focus of security and stability in the Middle East.
The question of Palestine has recently been …
