It is very encouraging that so many Governments and international organizations are becoming fully aware of the suffering and tragedy caused by the use of anti-personnel landmines. Guatemala has strongly condemned the production, manufacture, stockpiling, sale and planting of mines. My country has h…
I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the five Central American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
This is the third time that I have had the privilege in this Hall of listening to a statement in which Mr. Mohammed Bedjaoui, President of the International Co…
My delegation is honoured to express the appreciation of the people and the Government of Guatemala to the international community, so worthily represented in this Assembly, for having once again displayed its firm commitment to the Guatemalan peace process, through the third renewal of the mandate …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of six countries of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Guatemala.
The countries on whose behalf I have the honour to speak have benefited substantially from the kind of assistance to which I have just referred. The General …
First of all, we should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election. We also wish to thank the President of the International Court of Justice both for the Court’s report and for the thoughts he kindly shared with us on the extremely sensitive and important work of that lofty forum.
W…
It is a pleasant duty for my delegation to welcome the election of Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral to the presidency of the General Assembly at this especially solemn session. He will be presiding over a session which for the first time will hear statements by virtually all the world’s leaders. We are c…
I wish to express the gratitude of the people and Government of Guatemala to the international community, represented in the General Assembly, for having demonstrated once again its firm commitment to the Guatemalan peace process by renewing for the second time the mandate of the United Nations Miss…
On behalf of my delegation, it is my pleasure to address the General Assembly on “The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development”, especially now that we have just adopted…
I have the honour of introducing draft resolution A/49/L.39/Rev.1, which is entitled “Assistance for the reconstruction and development of El Salvador”, on behalf of its 15 original sponsors, as well as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, the Philippines, Italy, Peru, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and Ur…
My delegation is convinced that anything that can be done to strengthen national democratic systems deserves the recognition and resolute support of the international community.
As a Central American, I accord all due significance to the flowering of the democracy that we now have a good chance of …
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth regular session and to offer you the fullest cooperation of the Guatemalan delegation in the important tasks before you. I also wish to express deserved appreciation to Ambassador Samuel Insan…
After the very clear and specific statements representatives of the Group of the Guatemalan Peace Process made today, the General Assembly’s adopted draft resolution A/48/L.63/Rev.2 by consensus.
My delegation is very pleased to state for the record my country’s gratitude for the understanding show…
I wish on behalf of my delegation to speak briefly of the worldwide activities of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
As everyone knows, the Order engages in a great number of international humanitarian activities throughout the world. Since its foundation, it has become one of the largest, most…
Allow me, Ambassador Samuel Insanally, to congratulate you sincerely, on behalf of my delegation, on your election as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations at its forty-eighth session. At the same time, I would express to you our satisfaction that this post has gone to such a disti…
Mr. President, I beg your indulgence, but I should like to express my very human feeling when I confess that, like all people, we often do not really miss something until we do not have it. 12. The General Committee emphasized this morning that the fact that missions are to be provided with only two…
The
delegation of Guatemala voted in favour of the draft resolution contained in
document A/47/L.1, taking into account the decision of the Security Council
and the humanitarian arguments which obliged the Council to adopt that
decision indeed, the same arguments that motivated this decision by …
This year, the consideration of the item on oceans and the law of the sea by the General Assembly coincides with the 25th anniversary of the approval and opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. For the past 25 years, the Convention has been shown to be not only …
First of all, allow me to begin by congratulating the Secretary-General and the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for their work in producing their respective reports on the subject we are addressing today (A/63/63 and Add.1). These are very complete and comprehensive documents which…
Spain, not content with the greatness that it had given to the Old World, wanted to augment that greatness and share it with humanity, broadening its natural frontiers and exporting a new language, the eternal word of the ideas ofLatin Ameri- cans. It taught America to know, to love and to be- lieve…
The delegation of Guatemala wishes to express its satisfaction with the work of IAEA and to congratulate it on its 25 years of fruitful work.
105. In the light of the views I have just expressed, the Ten abstained in the voting on the draft resolution, as amended. The Ten regret that it was not pos…
