I too wish to speak in connection with the problem touched on by previous speakers, relating to paragraph 27 and the limited distribution of documents, and to make not a formal proposal, but a reasonable suggestion. Perhaps those countries which over the years have paid their assessed contributions …
Last year Finland co-sponsored the draft resolution which initiated the cooperation between the United Nations and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). This year the General Assembly has taken a step further as it has unanimously invited the CSCE to participate in the Assembl…
The disappearance from global affairs
of the East-West division has removed the threat jf a global nuclear
confrontation over the Middle East. That is a very good development. At the
same time, regrettably, there is no real peace in the region. The
Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts …
The United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development is a milestone in the evolution of the United
Nations system which was born in San Francisco 47 years ago to regulate
international relations. The Rio Earth Summit of last June represents an
important step in a process to prevent a fat…
Allow me to offer you. Sir, and the
Assembly the apologies of my Minister for Social Affairs and Health, Mr. Jorma
Huuhtanen, who indeed had arrived in New York over the weekend but then was
recalled to Helsinki by the Prime Minister for urgent cabinet negotiations
this afternoon. He asked me to…
I wish to explain the vote of my dele&ation on drat\ resolution A/371
151. My delegation undc::rstands paragraph 5 to include all agreements, including piecemeal agree- ments and the Camp David accords.
l.32. Mr. AL-ALFI (Democratic Yemen) (intelpreta- tion from Arabic): My delegation voted in fav…
Th~ erosion of the authority of the United Nations and the weakening of .its role in acting for the maintenance of international peace and security has been one of the central themes of this session of the General Assembly. The Sec- retary-General has emphasized this issue in his report on the work …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and the European Community as a party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The acceding countries Bulgaria and Romania, the candidate countries Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the countries of th…
The situation in the Mid- dle East continues to pose the most persistent threat to international peace and security. The legacy of history in the area is one of wa; and violence. The relations between States in the region is marked by tacit hostility or-open belligerence. The use of force is on the …
I rise on a point of order in connection with draft resolution 11 recommended in the report of the Sixth Committee. The purpose of my point of order is that the Assembly not vote on that draft resolution. The reasons for my delegation's proposing this are as follows.
187. First, Finland shares with…
The position of the Fin- nish Government on the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear centre is clear and has been expressed in several contexts. We concur with Security Council resolution 487 (1981) adopted on 19 June 1981. In that resolution the Security Council strongly condemned the military attac…
The delegation of Fin- land abstained in the vote just taken. The position of the Government of Finland on the Israeli attack against the Iraqi nuclear installations is clear and has been expressed in several contexts. We concur with resolution 487 (1981), in which the Security Council firmly condem…
As Chairman of the group of Western European and other States, I wish to extend a most cordial welcome to Antigua and Barbuda as the one hundred and fifty-seventh Member of the United Nations. In the annals of the United Nations, the admission of a new Member is always a solemn occasion for the Stat…
The President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General of the Orga- nization paid, a moment ago, an eloquent tribute to the Director General of IAEA, Mr. Eklund. Let me, on be- half of the Government of Finland, join them in paying a tribute to the Director General for his exceptional per- …
The delegation of Frnland welcomes the consensus reached on draft resolu- tion A/36/L.1I/Rev.l, just adopted. We are pleased to note that the text of the resolution before us marks a con- siderable improvement over the original version of the draft. For its part, my delegation had the opportunity to…
In view of the fact that the issue of launching the global negotiations on interna- tional economic co-operation for development was last discussed in this forum nearly a year ago and in view of the important meeting of Heads of State and Government which was recently held at Cancun, I wish to place…
Mr. Presidentt on be- half of the Government of Finland, I wish to extend to you our congratulations on your elecdon as President of this thirty-sixth session of the General J\ssembly. You bring to your high office unique knowledge\and experi- ence based on service in various capacities spai'ming mo…
The delegation of Fin- land voted in favour of draft resolution A/36/L.IO, just adopted, as it did for the amendments contained in docu M ment A/36/L.12. We regret, however, that, unlike in pre- vious years, this so-called omnibus resolution on the
Agen~y could not be adopted by consensus.
129. We…
In the view of the delegation of Finland, the revised draft resolution just adopted marks on many points a significant im- provement in cornj ison with the initial version. In particular, we are . .eased that the draft resolution now adopted spells iut the role of IAEA and that it recognizes the imp…
The General As- sembly has before it today two items relating to the same issue. The first, agenda item 113, is entitled
r~nment is indeed one of the important issues of our time. Respect for ecological principles, be they the
~reservatlon of the human environment, the protec- tion of nature, the …
