The honour and responsibility of presiding over the Security Council for the current month have been vested in you, Sir, and in your country, Argentina. I am very pleased to see you conducting the deliberations with so much understanding and dedication. Your wealth of diplomatic experience and your …
After three long years of military dictatorship, marked by bloody repression that claimed more than 7,000 victims among the Haitian population in the cities and the countryside, democratic life resumed in Haiti on 15 October 1994 with the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. That event, whose…
Mr. President, on behalf of the Government and the people of Haiti I would like to thank you for your kind expression of sympathy, on behalf of the General Assembly, on the loss of many lives and the significant property damage resulting from hurricane Gordon.
I wish also to express our gratitude t…
Just a few hours ago, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti after three years of enforced exile in order to resume his duties and pursue the mandate entrusted to him by the Haitian people.
This is a great day for the Haitian people who, for three long years, have heroically resisted an…
I should like first of all to thank Secretary of State Warren Christopher for his statement on the progress being made in Haiti thanks to the presence of the multinational force.
Next Tuesday, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will address the General Assembly of the United Nations and he will then …
When, on the morning of 30 September 1991, the news of the coup d’état perpetrated by the Haitian military against the democratically elected President of that country became known, the reaction was immediate. In the wake of the emotion and indignation generated by this heinous act, the internationa…
The delegation of Haiti would like you, Sir, to accept its sincere thanks for having convened this meeting of the General Assembly to discuss the situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti, specifically, the renewal of the mandate of the International Civilian Mission in Haiti (MICIVIH). We wo…
The Government of the Republic of Haiti welcomes the submission to the Security Council of a draft resolution containing measures along the lines of those requested by President Aristide, in particular in his address to the General Assembly on 28 October 1993 and in his letter to the Secretary-Gener…
Fatal accidents are a sad part of the reality of life. None the less, the international community was moved to learn on 6 April of the incident in Rwanda that cost the lives of two Heads of State of the region: the President of the R e p u b l i c o f B u r u n d i , H i s E x c e l l e n c y Mr. Cy…
Once again, the General Assembly is being called upon to consider the unprecedented crisis that has gripped my country for over two years and threatens the very foundations of our society. For the United Nations, which,
Considerable effort has been made by the international community to help resolv…
For the Haitian delegation, the assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly by, for the first time ever, a representative of the Caribbean is a source of pride and satisfaction. I should like to convey to you, Mr. President, the warm congratulations of the President, the Government and the …
Haiti attaches
great importance to our consideration of item 33, on the policies of apartheid
of the Government of South Africa, and is following developments in the
situation with interest. We noted the repeal last year of the legal bases of
apartheid and the establishment of organizational str…
On behalf of tbe Government of Haiti and in my own name, Sir, I wish to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the presidency of the thirty- seventh session of the General Assembly. I am sure that you will demonstrate those outstanding qualities that won you this disfinction. I wish also t…
On behalf of the Government of Haiti and in my own name, Sir, I wish to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the presidency of the thirty- seventh session of the General Assembly. I am sure that you will demonstrate those outstanding qualities that won you this disfinction. I wish also t…
The illegal occupation of Namibia by South Africa is a serious challenge to the Organization, and it is high time for the international community to fulfil its responsibilities to put an end to it as soon as possible. Further, the repeated acts of aggression perpetrated by tlte racist regime against…
The Republic of Haiti has always been in the vanguard of all movements seeking to consolidate the sov- ereignty of States, and has never failed in its task of ad- vocating and encouraging non-intervention in internal af- fairs. In this respect, my delegation would like to pay a resounding tribute to…
The international community has just expressed its position on the Afghan problem by the adoption of the draft resolution by an overwhelming majority.
104. This is a tribute to and a gesture of solidarity with the millions of Afghans who, in spite of the precarious means of struggle available to th…
My delegation voted in favour of draft resolu- tion 11. but if operative paragraph I had been voted on separately we would have abstained, as we did in the Second Committee.
Once again the General Assembly is seized of the trying and painful question ofapartheid, which since 1946 has given rise to so many meetings and dozens of resolutions by the General Assembly, the Security Council and other United Nations bodies.
231. Apartheid constitutes an affront to mankind and…
