Today the Security Council is meeting to discuss an issue of serious concern to all of us, one that has broad ramifications for issues of such profound interest as international terrorism and the safety and security of Heads of State and Government. In this connection, my delegation expresses its in…
My delegation would like first to express its appreciation to the authors for presenting the draft resolution now before the Council on the critical situation in Burundi. We believe that the submission of this draft, which was in response to the recommendations of the Secretary-General set out in hi…
At the outset, my delegation would like to welcome the Member of the Collective Presidency of the Liberian National Transitional Government and to express our appreciation for his insightful statement.
It was only last week that the Security Council convened a formal open debate regarding the situa…
It is a great pleasure for my delegation to associate itself with previous speakers in expressing our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his fifteenth progress report on the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) of 23 January 1996.
My delegation should like to welcome the Forei…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the duties of the President of the Security Council for the month of January and to assure you of my delegation's full cooperation on the many important issues currently before the Council. My delegation is confident that your d…
At the outset, the delegation of Indonesia would like to express its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his extremely important, yet enormously distressing, report to the Council, dated 27 November 1995, concerning recent gross violations of international humanitarian law in the areas of Sreb…
My delegation is particularly enthusiastic about speaking now because we know that, with the agreement reached at this session of the General Assembly to renew the dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership, a further step has been taken towards …
The Council’s consideration of a single agenda item today — “An agenda for peace: peace-keeping” — is, in our view, most appropriate and timely. This issue has become all the more important at this critical juncture of history, particularly after the end of the cold war, when, on the one hand, deman…
The Security Council is meeting today at a critical juncture in the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our deliberations will have significant and far-reaching ramifications for progress towards the implementation of the Peace Agreement reached in Dayton, Ohio. In this respect, the Secretary- Gene…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December and by assuring you of my delegation’s full cooperation in the discharge of your demanding duties. We are fully confident that given your wisdom and well- known leadership …
At the outset I should like to express my delegation’s appreciation to the Secretary-General for his informative and comprehensive report on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development. We have found the report to be most useful in these deliberations and in providin…
At the outset, my delegation would like to express its sincere appreciation to the Secretary-General for the preparation of the comprehensive report on the law of the sea before us in document A/50/713, which provides a firm basis for our important deliberations at the fiftieth session.
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Earlier this week the General Assembly had the opportunity to consider the agenda item entitled “Question of Palestine”. On that occasion, Member States that participated in the debate reaffirmed that this question constitutes the core of the Arab-lsraeli conflict, with profound ramifications on the…
As this Assembly, at its historic fiftieth session, is once again taking up the question of Palestine, it is fitting to recall that no other conflict has so preoccupied the Organization as that concerning Palestine. It cannot be denied that the United Nations has exerted more efforts to bring about …
Let me begin by expressing the Indonesian delegation’s appreciation to Ambassador Salim Bin Mohammed Al-Khussaiby of Oman, President of the Security Council for the month of November, for having introduced on behalf of the Council the report (A/50/2) of the Security Council to the General Assembly c…
Let me begin by expressing, on behalf of my delegation, our sincere appreciation to the Secretary-General for his report on this important agenda item. I would also like to thank the representative of the Philippines for her clear statement on behalf of the Group of 77 on this item, which indeed ref…
The Permanent Representative of Colombia, Ambassador Julio Londoño- Paredes, spoke yesterday on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries on item 47, now before us. My delegation fully associates itself with his statement.
I should like to begin by expressing my delegation’s appreciation to M…
It is indeed a great pleasure for my delegation to associate itself with the expressions of appreciation to the Secretary-General for his informative report (S/1995/881) of 23 October 1995, the thirteenth in a series of progress reports on the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL).
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Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of November and to assure you of my delegation’s full cooperation in the discharge of your duties. We are confident that your wisdom and well-known leadership qualities will en…
My delegation views with deepening concern the dispute between Cuba and the United States, which has persisted for the past three and a half decades. It is particularly regrettable that the poor relations between them have been aggravated by the imposition of numerous measures, including a devastati…
