The major event this September will provide us with a unique opportunity to take decisive steps towards implementing the Millennium Declaration and meeting the Millennium Development Goals, while at the same time ensuring a safer and more secure world. It is of the utmost importance that all countri…
I associate myself fully with the statement made earlier on behalf of the European Union by the representative of Luxembourg.
It is a great pleasure for me to address this year’s High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. The year 2005 is a crucial year for development. It marks the first gl…
I am honoured to speak on behalf of the European Union on this very important issue. The acceding countries Bulgaria and Romania; the candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; the countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates…
Today I have the honour to present to the General Assembly the reports of the Sixth Committee on the 19 substantive agenda items allocated to it, namely, items 138 to 152 and 157, 159, 160 and 162.
I would like to draw the Assembly’s attention first to agenda item 138, “Nationality of natural perso…
May I first underline that, although I am speaking here as a member of the Finnish delegation, I am also addressing this body in my capacity as Coordinator of activities to facilitate the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The Executive Secretary of the Comprehens…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The acceding countries Bulgaria and Romania, the candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Serbia, and the EFTA countr…
I have the honour to make the following statement on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Multilateralism and the United Nations have gone through a trying time since the last session of the General Assembly began. At the same time that multilaterali…
Finland fully associates itself with the statement made by Italy on behalf of the European Union. We thank the United Kingdom presidency for introducing justice and the rule of the law to the Security Council agenda. Finland gives special importance to the issue and has been actively participating i…
The Declaration of Commitment adopted at the General Assembly special session in June 2001 set a broad and challenging agenda. In the two years since our commitment, we have seen increased attention to and recognition of HIV/AIDS as a major global emergency which also threatens global security. We a…
One year after the terrible attacks of 11 September, we commemorate the innocent victims of those crimes. The best way we can honour their memory is by taking up and acting upon all the many-faceted challenges that terrorism and other threats pose to human security. The world has changed irrevocably…
The terrorist attacks of 11 September are going to thoroughly change the world, but we do not yet know how. The aftermath of these events has shown that there are more issues that unite us than issues that separate us. We also know that preventing terrorism and other global threats requires the broa…
At the outset, I would like to fully associate myself with the statement made by Mr. Louis Michel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, on behalf of the European Union, and I wish to make the following additional remarks.
Dialogue among civilizations is crucial for the…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Nordic countries — Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and my own country, Finland.
The terrorist attacks on 11 September have profoundly affected our sense of security, both as Member States and as individuals. They were a brutal intrusion into our open, de…
I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to preside over this session of the General Assembly. You have the full support of the delegation of Finland in your very demanding work.
Finland fully subscribes to the statement made on behalf of the European Union by the representative …
It is with deep sorrow, as Chairperson of the Group of Western European and other States, that I express condolences on behalf of the members of the Group on the passing away of Mr. Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh National Parliament, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangl…
I will deliver this statement on behalf of Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
The heads of State and Government have just completed the largest-ever United Nations gathering, the Millennium Summit. They adopted a forward- looking and ambitious Millennium Declaration. T…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union.
The European Union was pleased to join the consensus on the adoption of resolutions 54/239 and 54/240. The European Union has continuously supported the work of the International Criminal Tribunals. For that reason, we had
The European Union would like to take this opportunity to express its support for the statement made by the delegation of Ecuador on the two resolutions just adopted under sub-item (b) of agenda item 100, in particular on the resolution on the successor arrangements for the International Decade for …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union on the question of observer status for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The Central and Eastern European countries associated with the European Union — Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia — and the associated countries Cyprus and Malta, as well …
