At the outset, I wish to thank the Lebanese presidency for having organized this debate and allowed us to participate in it.
I wish to take this opportunity to welcome the presence of the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ambassador Mariano Fernández Amunategui. I thank him for h…
It is a great honour for us to participate in this meeting.
This International Year has shown that there are many opportunities for young people. At the same time we have seen that the challenges we must confront are even greater. Young people face the highest levels of poverty and unemployment and…
It is a great honour for me to participate for the first time in this High-level Meeting of the General Assembly.
I would like to begin by stressing the central role played by the United Nations in the response to the HIV pandemic, its key contribution to the achievements made to date, and the impo…
I appreciate the opportunity offered to my delegation to participate in this open debate on the activities carried out by the three Security Council Committees specialized in the fight against terrorism. At the outset, I wish to note that Spain fully aligns itself with the statement to be delivered …
I would first like to state our full support for the statement made by the representative of Belgium on behalf of the European Union.
As we engage in this debate, it is important to keep the historical perspective in mind. Let us remember that agenda item 42 — “The situation in Central America: pro…
In the first decade of the twenty-first century we have
achieved consensus on three key axes of international development.
First, concerning our objectives, the Millennium Declaration has become a point of reference for the international community. In three years, depending on the results achieved…
First, on behalf of my delegation, I would like to welcome this debate on the human right to drinking water and sanitation and its impact on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a year after the adoption of resolution 64/292 on the recognition of the right to water and sanitation.
The resolutio…
I am grateful for the opportunity given to my delegation to participate in this open debate on the activities of the three Security Council Committees focused on the fight against terrorism. In that regard, I would like fully to endorse the statement to be made by the representative of the European …
Spain aligns itself with the statement made at the 113th meeting on behalf of the European Union.
A little less than a year ago, last 24 September, a high-level meeting was held under the auspices of the Secretary-General with the goal of evaluating the situation of the Conference on Disarmament an…
On behalf of the Group of Western European and other States, and also on behalf of my country and myself, I wish to convey to the people and Government of Barbados our deepest condolences for the loss of their Prime Minister, Mr. David John Howard Thompson. Mr. Thompson was an important figure in hi…
In 1998, the General Assembly proclaimed the decade 2001 2010 the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World. The Assembly’s declaration of 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, made at the initiative of the General Conferen…
May my first words be to congratulate the newly appointed President of the Assembly, Mr. Joseph Deiss, to whom I wish great success in his conduct of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly.
September is an important month in the agenda of international politics since the middle of the last…
On behalf of my delegation, permit me to add to the appreciation expressed for organizing this meeting of
the Assembly to carry out the second biennial review of the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the plan of action (see resolution 60/288, annex), both ad…
We would like to express our gratitude for the initiative of Assembly President Treki to convene these special meetings beginning yesterday, International Humanitarian Day, on the humanitarian consequences of the catastrophe being experienced by Pakistan. We also thank him for his initiative in subm…
Spain would have wished that the suggestions and alternative texts presented by the European Union, first by Spain as a rotating President of the European Union and then by the current Belgian Presidency, had been taken into account by the delegation of Bolivia. In this respect, Spain regrets the fa…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, as well …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia; as well as Uk…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The candidate countries Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; potential candidates and countries of the Stabilization and Association Process Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro; as well as the Republic of Moldova, Ukrain…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The following countries align themselves with this statement: the candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania…
My delegation is grateful for the opportunity to participate in this debate, which enables me to reaffirm Spain’s full commitment to the people and the Government of Haiti, especially in the difficult current circumstances following the tragic earthquake that devastated the country on 12 January. We…