Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the opportunity to participate in the present discussion of the matter that my Government brought to the attention of the Security Council in its letter dated 9 January, concerning the attempted assassination of His Excellency President Hosni Mubarak of the Ar…
May I first of all congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January and on your very effective leadership. I should also like to pay special tribute to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Lavrov, for the compe…
Allow me at the outset to express our deep appreciation to the Ambassador of Belgium for skilfully leading the negotiations on this draft resolution at the international level.
As a representative of the current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and on behalf of African States, I …
The situation in Burundi remains a matter of serious concern. Efforts made at the national, regional and international levels have not yet resulted in the restoration of peace and stability in Burundi. The report of the Secretary- General (A/50/541), submitted at the current session of the General A…
As a representative of the current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), I am delighted to participate in the debate on this important agenda item relating to cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General…
My delegation would like to extend its deeply felt condolences to the people and the
As a representative of the current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), I am pleased to participate in this discussion. Allow me to express my sincere appreciation to the Secretary-General for his i…
I should like, first, to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Amara Essy, President of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session and
We are especially delighted to note that, with the active participation and increased interest of Member States, the question of equitable representation on and incr…
I would like first of all to extend sincere congratulations to the President on his unanimous election at this historic fiftieth session of the General Assembly. While expressing my delegation’s full confidence that he will steer our deliberations to a successful conclusion, I wish also to seize thi…
The question of strengthening the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations has been on the agenda of the General Assembly as a priority issue since 1991. Resolutions have been adopted, and decisions have been taken by the Assembly and by the Economic and Social Council…
My delegation would like first of all to congratulate Ambassador Bo Kjellén, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, and Mr. Hama Arba Diallo and other members of the secretariat, for their tireless efforts in producing this exemplary international instrument.
We would like to endo…
Allow me first to extend to Ambassador Amara Essy heartfelt congratulations on his unanimous election to preside over the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly. His election is a fitting tribute both to him and to his country, Côte d’Ivoire. While expressing our confidence in his skills and ca…
It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Ambassador Insanally of Guyana on his election to the high office of the presidency of the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly.
I am also delighted to welcome the new Members of the Organization. In this regard allow me to welcome especially the S…
On behalf of the Ethiopian delegation and
myself I wish to extend heartfelt congratulations to you. Sir, on your
election as President of the forty-seventh session of the General Assemblyl.
My delegation is confident that, under your wise guidance, the current session
of the General Assembly wil…
No one, in principle, will have any objection to co-operation between the United Nations and regional organizations, but it is essential that such co-operation be based on the universal principles en- shrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Anything short of that would, in our considered view,…
Those who fail to re- spect the provisions of that decision will have only them- selves to blame for the possible disastrous consequences of such failure.
224. Subsequently, the OAU Good Offices Committee met at the ministerial level at Lagos in August 1980 and, having reaffirmed once again that th…
It will be recalled that at the 24th meeting the representative of-Somalia accused the Minister for Foreign Affairs of my country of mis- representing the decision on the conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Uni…
It is with a deep
se~se ofdisappointment and in4ignation that the Ethio- pian delegation once again takes part in the general debate on the question of Namibia. Namibia, a Territory for which the United Nations has a unique, legal and moral responsibility, should have been independent long ago. Reg…
Mankind everywhere yearns for peace and amity. Nowhere else is this yearning felt more today than in South-East Asia, where the forces of reaction and tyranny are hard at work to turn back the wheels of history.
127. It has unfortunately become fashionable these days to talk about peace in public f…
For the third time the General. Assembly is discusging the so-called situation in Kampuchea. This, as we have said on previous occasions, is a gross violation of the independence and sovereignty of the People's Republic of Kampuchea and direct inter- ference in its internal affairs.
27. We are all …
I should like to begin by extending my delegation's sincere sympathy and pro- found condolences on the tragic death of President Anwar El Sadat to his family and to the people and Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
328. The Ethiopian delegation listened attentively to the statement of the pe…
