I would like, first of all, to congratulate Denmark for having assumed the presidency of the Security Council and having organized this open debate, providing countries non-members of the Council with the opportunity to express our views on the fragile situation in Haiti. On behalf of Guatemala, I w…
My delegation would like to associate itself with the statement made by Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
For Guatemala, the family is the basic unit of society and as such should receive the greatest protection, assistance and support in any social and cultural policy. For the family i…
My delegation wishes to add its condolences to those expressed on the passing of the head of State of the United Arab Emirates.
The illustrious Grotius highlighted the need of human communities for law to govern their activities in order to ensure their survival, adding that that
generalization ap…
At the outset, we thank the Secretary- General for his ninth and final report on the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala, contained in document A/59/307. We reaffirm our gratitude to the Group of Friends of the Guatemalan peace process, which has supported us throughout the long process…
We are grateful to Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who in his capacity as President of the Security Council for the month of
October introduced the annual report on the activities of that body at the beginning of the joint …
Guatemala abstained in the vote on draft resolution A/58/L.61/Rev.1 because it is our understanding, in spite of the constructive amendments made to the original texts, that it touches on subjects which, pursuant to Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), are to be resolved through n…
My delegation appreciates the convening of this open meeting and the presence of the Foreign Ministers of Jamaica and the Bahamas today.
Guatemala is exercising the pro tempore presidency of the Central American Integration System this semester. It is therefore in that capacity that I have the hono…
I have the honour once again of addressing the General Assembly in relation to agenda item 12, entitled “Report of the Economic and Social Council”, assigned to the Second Committee. I wish to call to the attention of the plenary an omission in paragraph 18 of document A/58/495, where, as a recommen…
We wish, first of all, to thank the Secretary-General for having submitted to us his reports on the situation in Central America (A/58/270), the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala: renewal of mandate (A/58/262) and the eighth report on the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatema…
Guatemala aligns itself fully with the statements of the representatives of Morocco, Algeria and Peru, who spoke, respectively, on behalf of the Group of 77, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Rio Group. We need not repeat what has already been said, and will accordingly restrict ourselves to one aspe…
In past years, we have participated in the debate on this agenda item basically in order to voice our concern over the fact that the reports we have been receiving under Article 15 of the Charter are too descriptive, excessively lengthy and lacking the elements that would allow the Members of the Un…
As this is the first time that I am taking the floor since you, Sir, have become President, I wish to sincerely congratulate you on your election to preside over our work and to assure you of my fullest cooperation. I am also grateful to the Secretary-General for the documents he has made available …
Needless to say, my delegation fully and unreservedly associates itself with the statement just made by our friend the representative of Peru on behalf of the Rio Group. We nevertheless wish to make a brief comment on our own account with regard to the resolution that has just been adopted.
In the …
Guatemala has not intervened in the prior debates on this matter. We did, at the time, hail the capacity the Council revealed to bring together support for resolution 1441 (2002). We also noted with mounting concern the divisions that arose around the fundamental question of how to implement it. But…
Last 11 November, I addressed this Assembly to make a substantive presentation in favour of extending the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) for the year 2003. In addition, I reiterated the request of President Alfonso Portillo of Guatemala, presented in this s…
My colleague, Ambassador Bruno Stagno of Costa Rica, has already spoken on behalf of all of the countries members of the Central American Integration System and, of course, we fully associate ourselves with his statement. I will therefore limit myself to speaking exclusively about the situation of G…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the member States of the Central American Integration System — Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama — as well as on behalf of the Dominican Republic, in its capacity as observer.
First of all, I should like to thank the S…
I wish at the outset to associate myself with the statement made this morning by the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his submission of the report in document A/57/387, and for its style, its formal features and its sub…
Allow me at the outset to express our deep appreciation to the President of the Court, Judge Gilbert Guillaume, for having made the effort to come to this busy city, putting aside many of his burdensome regular duties to take on an additional but different one — that of introducing to us, which his …
Like representatives who have preceded me in taking the floor, I should like to express to the delegation of Indonesia our most sincere sympathy concerning the events that took place in Bali a few days ago.
Today, we are debating two items on our agenda, but I shall focus my comments on the report …
