I have the honour to introduce the draft resolution contained in document A/55/L.90, under agenda item 39. The draft resolution is entitled “United Nations Electoral Observation Mission for the general elections in Fiji in August 2001” and is sponsored by the following Member States: Argentina, Aust…
Allow me to warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the Council and your assumption of the presidency during the first month of your membership. I would also like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate Colombia, Ireland, Mauritius and Norway on their election to the Coun…
Fiji wishes to align itself with the statement delivered by His Excellency Mr. Peter Donigi of Papua New Guinea on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum members represented in New York.
For eight years, the reform of the Security Council has been under discussion. General consensus is emerging for th…
My delegation feels greatly strengthened and inspired by the strides that the United Nations is making on the rights of children. It is a triumph of this era that we have been able to expound children’s human rights.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a milestone instrument, one which my …
My delegation fully endorses the statement made by Mr. Peter Donigi of Papua New Guinea on behalf of the countries of the Pacific Islands Forum.
Fiji is not immune to the global invasion of HIV/AIDS. Although 70 per cent of the 34.3 million infected victims are in Africa, HIV/AIDS is bigger than Af…
I bring you greetings from the people of the Fiji Islands.
On their behalf, I also convey our warm congratulations to you, Mr. President, along with the pledge of my delegation to support you and to closely cooperate with you in ensuring the success of this session.
To the Secretary-General, I wou…
It is my profound privilege to deliver the greetings of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Fiji, who deeply regrets not being able to share this momentous occasion of the Millennium Summit with all of us here at the United Nations. His Excellency Ratu Josefa Iloilo is nonetheless with u…
I am pleased to announce on behalf of the following members of the South Pacific Forum — Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu — that they all support the draft resolution before the Assembly on this ite…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the following South Pacific countries: Australia, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and my own country, Fiji.
For obvious reasons, the ocean is …
It is my honour today to convey to the Assembly the warm greetings and best wishes of the Government and people of the friendly islands of Fiji.
On their behalf, I congratulate the President on his election. He will be interested to know that his great country, Namibia, is grouped together with my …
My delegation is most privileged to participate in this auspicious commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today, 50 years after the international crusade for human rights was launched, such rights have become entrenched in all aspects of national, reg…
My delegation takes the floor to express its full support for the proposed Millennium Assembly, the Special Commission on the United Nations system and the Millennium Forum, which are all facets of
We recognize also that the report of the Secretary- General entitled “Renewing the United Nations: a …
Fiji continues to reiterate its concern over the inequitable and undemocratic geographic representation in the membership of the Security Council, both the permanent and the non-permanent membership. The numerical limit of permanent membership, five, and the limited geographical span of the five are…
My country and my delegation wish to take this opportunity to extend to Mr. Didier Opertti our warmest congratulations on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session. His election to the high office is a tribute to both him and his great country. My delegation a…
Let me say at the outset that Fiji is totally committed to the reform of the Security Council, which we believe is vitally important to the future of the United Nations and its membership.
Last year in the General Assembly, I registered my country's concern at the lack of equitable geographical rep…
Fiji is among the co-sponsors of the draft resolution before us and wishes to express its strong support for this document. The draft notes, inter alia, that the report by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) indicates that the transit…
There is no doubt whatsoever that Africa has been a grossly neglected continent. Its neglect by the international community in one way or another spawned a string of negative elements which have caused the stagnation of the growth and development of the countries of Africa, individually and collecti…
The reform of the Security Council has been the subject of our consideration for the last three years. During that time, an Open-ended Working Group has carried out deliberations on the matter. The Group has been unable to come up with definitive proposals for the reform of the Council. Nevertheless…
My delegation joins others in warmly congratulating Ambassador Razali Ismail on his election to
It also gives me great pleasure to extend the profound gratitude of my delegation to the outgoing President of the historic fiftieth session of the General Assembly, Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral of Portug…
Fiji is honoured and privileged to co-sponsor draft resolution A/50/L.78, which has just been introduced by the Ambassador of Australia and which is before this Assembly, calling for the adoption, inter alia, of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty as contained in document A/50/1027 — committed a…
