My delegation joined in the consensus on the adoption of the draft resolution recommended in document A/49/744. It became clear during the debate in the Sixth Committee on this item that there remain outstanding major issues of substance arising from the draft articles prepared by the International …
I also should briefly like to reply to the remarks made by the Permanent Representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on agenda item 150.
Like the representative of the United States, with whose comments I concur entirely, I believe those remarks to be factually incorrect and an insult to the Secur…
My delegation was pleased to support the resolution just adopted extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) for a further six months. We believe that this operation is playing a crucial role in creating conditions of security in Rwanda through its neutral and …
Mr. President, may I first add my congratulations to you on the assumption of your high office.
The general debate of the General Assembly has reaffirmed, if reaffirmation were needed, the importance that Member States of this Organization accord to the enlargement of the Security Council. A repres…
I should like first to congratulate you most warmly, Sir, on your election as President. The Assembly could not have made a wiser choice. I wish you all good fortune and success in your mission.
In a few months we shall commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the United Nations. The Un…
My delegation would not have voted for this resolution had it been put to the vote. This is not because of any doubts we have about the nature of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta itself, but the question of granting observer status to the Sovereign Order should not be considered on its own. It …
The Government of the United Kingdom recognizes the intense efforts which the Secretary-General and the Special Representative of the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS) have made to bring about a peaceful and lasting solution to the crisis in Hait…
The representative of Germany spoken earlier today on behalf of the European Union. My delegation fully endorses his statement, and it is my honour to add some remarks on behalf of the United Kingdom.
As an island State with numerous overseas interests, the United Kingdom has always followed closel…
As a member of the group of Friends of the Secretary-General for Georgia,
In many ways the resolution and the arrangements set out in it break new ground. This approach comes against the background of increasing demands on United Nations peace-keeping capabilities, demands that threaten to outstrip…
Let me begin, Sir, by offering you the good wishes of the United Kingdom delegation upon your assumption of the office of
My delegation welcomes the report of the Secretary-General, in which he records the progress made in the implementation of the General Peace Agreement for Mozambique since the a…
The United Kingdom welcomes this debate on Security Council enlargement. The statements made today and the comments submitted to the Secretary-General in response to last year’s resolution of the General Assembly on this item show that there are many cross currents in this debate. We hope that the A…
My delegation abstained in the vote on the draft resolution which the Assembly has just adopted.
We are sympathetic to the aspirations of those countries that wish to develop and improve their collections of cultural property, but we cannot accept the principle that
My delegation strongly condemns…
I should first like to convey both to you, Mr. President, and to this A s s e m b l y , t h e v e r y s i n c e r e r e g r e t s o f Mr. Mark Lennon-Boyd, the Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office responsible for international drugs questions. He had fully intended to be here today and wa…
I regret having to make an intervention at this late hour, but I promise you it will not take 10 minutes.
In his statement earlier this evening, the Foreign Minister of Argentina referred to the alleged sovereign rights of his country over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich …
Mr. President, may I first of all congratulate you on your election, and on the dignified and effective way in which you are already presiding over this Assembly. You have a burdensome job and we wish you all good fortune as you discharge it.
I have sometimes heard speakers from this rostrum patrol…
Once again, I regret that my
delegation will find it necessary to vote against the draft resolutions on the
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples (A/47/L.17) and on the dissemination of information on
decolonization (A/47/L.18).
In m…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of
the European Community and its member States.
* Subsequently, the delegations of Azerbaijan, Lesotho, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique and Nigeria advised the Secretariat that they had intended to vote in favour.
While we have voted in favour of …
I am truly honoured to address you
today on behalf of the European Community and its member States at this
meeting of the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly, which marks the
end of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons and the tenth anniversary
of the World Programme of Action…
I am privileged to speak this morning on
behalf of the European Community and its 12 member States. It is a pleasure
to do so under your guidance, Mr. President under the guidance of a fellow
European Foreign Minister whose country has made such great progress in recent
years and whose foreign a…
My Gov- ernment continues to regard the Israeli military attack of June 1981 on Iraq's nuclear installations as a grave violation of international law having serious implica- tions for international relations, including on nuclear matters. For this reason, and because we support its general thrust, …
