I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), consisting of 55 Member States and the European Union, and this year co-chaired by Croatia, Morocco and my country, Guatemala.
We thank the Secretary-General for his report on th…
Guatemala thanks Ecuador, in its capacity as President of the Security Council during the month of December, for convening this open debate on the theme “Transnational organized crime, growing challenges
and new threats to international peace and security”. This is an issue that poses a significant…
Allow me to begin by congratulating the delegations of Singapore and Norway on having facilitated the negotiations on the draft resolutions under consideration today.
We also thank the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for its assistance to Member States. We take note of the report …
First of all, I would like to thank Ambassador Rafael Mariano Grossi for presenting the annual report for 2022 (see A/78/304) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to congratulate him on his reappointment as Director General of the Agency for the period from 2023 to 2027. I also thank…
Allow me to thank Judge Piotr Hofmański, President of the International Criminal Court, for presenting the report of the Court (see A/78/322), which updated us on the activities of the International Criminal Court during the past year. We appreciate and take note of the information and the cases pre…
Allow me to begin this statement by expressing the appreciation of the Republic of Guatemala for the work of the International Court of Justice. We thank Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice, for the comprehensive presentation of the annual report (A/78/4), which u…
Guatemala thanks the delegations of Poland, Uzbekistan, Israel, Morocco, Guyana and Thailand for co-facilitating the three health processes, which involved several weeks of hard work.
I wish to refer to resolutions 78/3 and 78/4, adopted at this plenary meeting and containing the political declarat…
In response to the representative of Belize’s comments today, I want to stress the peaceful vocation of the people of Guatemala, whose foreign policy is based on good faith and strict respect for international law. The reports of the observation mission of the Organization of American States on the …
In my capacity as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Guatemala and in the exercise of our right of reply, I wish to refer to the remarks made by my colleague, the Foreign Minister of Belize, in his address to the General Assembly.
I wish to highlight the peaceful nature of the people of Guatemala,…
We would like to thank the delegation of Albania, in particular Albania’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, for presiding over the Security Council for the month of September and convening today’s important open debate. We also thank the Executive Director of the World Food Programme and Mr. …
At the outset, we would like to echo the expressions of solidarity with the Government and the people of the Kingdom of Morocco following the tragic earthquake in that country.
It is regrettable that the first issue discussed at the seventy-eighth session of this General Assembly is once again the …
Guatemala thanks the facilitators of resolution 77/334 for their tireless efforts and their openness during the process. We appreciate the text, which takes into account the actions that contribute to our achievement of our national development priorities in terms of access to water and management o…
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this plenary meeting to commemorate the International Day against Nuclear Tests, and the Republic of Kazakhstan for its continued efforts to address this issue. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Nakamitsu, Exe…
We highlight the President of the General Assembly’s words this morning that peace cannot be maintained by force, but only through understanding. Guatemala is grateful for the presentation of the report of the Secretary General (A/77/756) on the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) for 2022, enabling us to foll…
Guatemala thanks the President of the General Assembly for convening today’s meeting under the agenda item “Use of the veto”. We also thank the President for his wise opening words, which align with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and are in accordance with the principles of inde…
I appreciate the convening of this important debate. Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine is the greatest threat to the international rules-based order since the Second World War. Since Russia’s aggression against Ukraine began, Guatemala has strongly condemned in …
We welcome the convening of this plenary meeting to discuss the responsibility to protect, an issue to which Guatemala attaches great importance. We take note of the report entitled “Development and the responsibility to protect: recognizing and addressing embedded risks and drivers of atrocity crim…
My delegation would like to thank the delegation of Mexico for introducing and facilitating the
important resolution 77/300. Guatemala is committed to continuing to work to ensure a healthy life that promotes well-being at all ages, which is critical to achieving sustainable development.
Sustainab…
We thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under- Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), and the members of the Office for their efforts in connection with the holding of the High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter- Terrorism Agencies of Member States.
We welcome the ho…
Guatemala is committed to community- based primary health-care services as a participatory and inclusive approach to achieving universal health coverage. However, Guatemala dissociates itself the from sixteenth preambular paragraph of resolution 77/287, taking into account that the language containe…
