The Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC), for which I have the honour to speak, joins the previous speakers in thanking the President for convening this meeting in commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a horrific demonstration of man’s inhumanity to man within and outside a St…
It is with a deep sense of pride and pleasure that my delegation congratulates you, Sir, on your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session. You have done the entire Caribbean region proud. Your own country, Saint Lucia, one of the smallest States Member…
Because the night is far spent, and because much has been written and spoken about the HIV/AIDS pandemic with which the Grenada delegation readily concurs — especially the substantive and eloquent statement made by Prime Minister Owen Arthur of Barbados — my delegation will limit its short contribut…
The necessary changes having been made — mutatis mutandis — I have the honour to introduce, on behalf of all the sponsors, draft resolution A/57/L.55/Rev.1, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States”. I should like to announce that, since the publicatio…
The timely, challenging and forward-looking report of our discerning Secretary-General entitled “Strengthening of the United Nations: an agenda for further change” (A/57/387), which we are now debating, can enhance our programme of work for years to come, if it is objectively and conscientiously ass…
My delegation congratulates Mr. Jan Kavan on his election as President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, and we thank his predecessor, Mr. Han Seung-soo, for his effective conduct of the fifty-sixth session. We also pay tribute to the Secretary-General for his enlightened and pro…
At the outset, my delegation extends profound sympathy to the families of the victims who lost their lives on the flight to the Dominican Republic.
The rescheduled general debate now convened, well into the work of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, only serves to reconfirm our awaren…
On numerous occasions in the Open-ended Working Group my delegation has argued that a satisfactory reform of the Security Council is not achievable without a thorough knowledge of how the Council does its work. To acquire this knowledge, we proposed that the Working Group receive briefings as well a…
The delegation of Grenada aligns itself with the statement presented by the representative of Dominica on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
As the marathon debate on this agenda item, “Measures to eliminate international terrorism”, winds down, everything that should be said has already …
Once again the Secretary-General and his associates have performed the miracle of preparing their report on the work of the Organization (A/56/1). It is a document that reviews the recent past, illuminates the present and indicates the issues that are well on the way to becoming crucial in the near …
The Member States of the Latin America and Caribbean Group, for which I have the honour to speak, learned with surprise and sadness of the sudden, unexpected and untimely death of Mr. Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, Speaker of the Bangladesh National Parliament and a great former Minister for Foreign Aff…
In the seven years of marathon debate on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters, everything that should be said has been said, but not everyone has said it. Therefore, for the record, the Grenada delegation, for the very…
This being my first opportunity to congratulate the President, I do so on behalf of my delegation with all warmth and confidence that he will conduct the deliberations of this session in a manner consonant with his great experience and competence.
It was on 1 October 1993, when Ambassador Samuel In…
My delegation greets and congratulates you, Sir, for presiding over the deliberations of the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly — the Millennium Assembly.
We pay tribute to your predecessor, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, the distinguished Foreign Minister of Namibia, for his effecti…
A gathering of such significance convened so early in the new millennium gives hope for the strengthening of cooperation among Governments so that humankind, especially the poor, can be better served. This historic occasion affords us an opportunity to reflect on the unique nature of the United Nati…
I have the honour to introduce on behalf of the sponsors listed in document A/54/L.69 and these additional co-sponsors — Cameroon, Ireland, Paraguay and the United Kingdom — the draft resolution entitled “Emergency assistance to countries affected by hurricanes Jose and Lenny”, under agenda item 20 …
My delegation begins by thanking, complimenting and praising the Secretary-General for his comprehensive, expressive and thought-provoking report.
This hurricane is unusual not only for its lateness and ferocious winds, but also because it spreads its force selectively and has caused sea level rise…
My delegation is delighted to congratulate the President on his election. My delegation's hearty congratulations are made even warmer as he has the privilege and the honour to take the fifty-fourth session, as President of the General Assembly, from the twentieth into the twenty-first century. A sim…
My delegation congratulates the Secretary-General and his staff on their efforts to make the United Nations more responsive to the needs of Member States and of the international community, especially the developing nations.
My delegation also wishes to congratulate Mr. Didier Opertti on his electi…
In my address to this noble Assembly last year, I drew attention to the significance of virtue and, furthermore, to the enhancement of the release
As it is for any individual society or nation, so it is for the international global community. Ethics is the science whose aim is to produce the good m…
