It is an honour to speak at this meeting on behalf of the members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), of which Honduras holds the pro tempore chairmanship. I welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba and his delegation.
The States members of CELAC welcomed the me…
From the very beginning, the purposes and principles of our Organization’s founding Charter were inspired by the possibility of achieving a hopeful future for humankind, which in those dire times had been struck down by war, desolation and death.
Today Honduras firmly believes that a better world w…
I have the honour to address today’s high-level meeting on behalf of the 33 States members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
We welcome our special guests.
The States members of CELAC recall resolution 64/35, adopted by the General Assembly in December 2009, and reso…
We developing countries are facing great challenges, including unilateral economic and trade measures and weakening multilateralism, which are undermining the principles established in the Charter of the United Nations and international law. In line with its foreign policy principles, the Government…
We would like to thank Mr. Grossi for his presentation this morning.
Honduras is a country that is committed to disarmament and non-proliferation and participates in this space in recognition both of the importance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the international level and its …
My delegation thanks the President of the International Court of Justice, Honourable Judge Joan E. Donoghue, for her report (A/78/4) and takes note of the Court’s work for the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, as contained in the report.
The Republic of Honduras recognizes the Court a…
At the outset, it is important to emphasize that on the fortieth anniversary of the adoption and opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Honduras — a State party since December 1982 — recognizes UNCLOS as the legal framework within which all activities …
Honduras, a country committed to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, is pleased to be participating in this meeting on the occasion of the presentation of the 2021 report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (see A/77/308 and A/77/308/Add.1). We recognize the international importa…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements made earlier today by the representatives of Azerbaijan, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, by Argentina, on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, by the Dominican Republic, on behalf of the Central American I…
The Republic of Honduras welcomes the report of the Human Rights Council, contained in documents A/77/53 and A/77/53/Add.1. Honduras congratulates Mr. Volker Türk on his recent appointment by the Secretary-General as High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The election of Honduras, for the first time, …
My delegation was pleased to see the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan E. Donoghue, here in the Hall today, and we thank her for the Court’s annual report (A/77/4) to the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session and take note of the work carried out by the Court for …
First of all, I would like to express my country’s pleasure at the holding once again of a formal debate on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. It is a unique opportunity for the States Members of the United Nations …
The Republic of Honduras condemns the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s launching of ballistic missiles in the vicinity of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, jeopardizing the region’s peace and security and flagrantly violating the relevant resolutions of the Security Council. In that regard, Ho…
At the outset, my delegation would like to thank the Secretary- General for his report on the agenda item before us
(A/76/311 and A/76/311/Add.1). We are also grateful for the report on the work of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea at its t…
Under agenda item 15 and with the support of a vast number of co-sponsors, Honduras is pleased to introduce draft resolution A/76/L.12, entitled “International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, 2022”.
The draft resolution was prepared pursuant to the mandate of the UNESCO General …
My delegation thanks the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan E. Donoghue, for the Court’s report (A/76/4) to the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session, and takes note of the work carried out by the Court for the period from 1 August 2020 to 31 July 2021. Honduras deep…
I deliver this statement on behalf of the Republic of Honduras, its people and its Government so that my country may contribute, within its capacities, to broad global efforts to maintain peace among all the peoples of the world. We therefore emphatically condemn the attacks recently perpetrated aga…
I would first like to express my country’s pleasure at once again being able to hold the formal debate on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, which represents a unique opportunity for Member States to promote dialogu…
At the outset, my delegation would like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports on oceans and the law of the sea (A/75/70 and A/75/340) and the reports on the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine En…
My delegation thanks the President of the International Court of Justice, His Excellency Yusuf, for his presentation yesterday of the report of the Court and takes note of the work of the Court for the seventy- fifth session of the General Assembly, contained in document A/75/4, comprising the perio…
