I should like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports under the agenda item. I should also like to pay a rich tribute to Ambassador Courtenay Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica, for his tireless efforts in making the permanent memorial Ark of Return a reality.
The evil of slavery w…
I am honoured to address the General Assembly on behalf of India at today’s debate. I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting.
At the outset, allow me to align myself with the statement made by the representative of Algeria on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
I would like…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements made earlier by the Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia on behalf of the L.69 group and the Permanent Representative of Germany on behalf of the Group of Four.
At the outset, allow me to compliment you, Mr. President, on convening this important d…
We welcome the emphasis the General Assembly has laid on sport as an agent of
peace and an instrument of development. India strongly concurs with the recognition of sport as an ideal to be pursued for several noble objectives that are at the heart of the Organization’s work.
In ancient Indian trad…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate. Given the paucity of time, I will come to the substance directly.
First, we think that the openness of this debate is constricted by imposing a time limit of three minutes on non-members and no time limit for members.
Secondly, one of th…
I am honoured to address the General Assembly during the historic seventieth anniversary of the United Nations. The Organization embodies humankind’s faith in dialogue over war and in collective progress over individual gains. As it celebrates its seventieth anniversary, its founding creed of mainta…
I am honoured to speak on behalf of India at today’s debate on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Let me begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his reports on the items under discussion, including the thirteenth
consolidated progress report on the implementation of and inter…
I take the floor in exercise of our right of reply in respose to a reference made by the representative of Pakistan to the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which is, has always been and will remain an integral part of India. It is all the more ironical that those comments should come from a countr…
We thank the Secretary- General for his annual report on the work of the Organization (A/70/1). We are fortunate that today’s meeting is taking place shortly after the high-level general debate, during which our leaders addressed the General Assembly. We therefore have not only the report’s perspect…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate on this important and pertinent issue and for the informative concept note (S/2015/749, annex). In order to give other colleagues a chance to speak today, I will make only a few points and request that my ful…
I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this plenary meeting on the report of the Secretary-General entitled “The future of United Nations peace operations: implementation of recommendations of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations” (A/70/357). It is signi…
The United Nations is marking its seventieth anniversary this year, making this session of the General Assembly a historic one. I hope that this year will also be historic for the United Nations in terms of outcomes. I would like to assure the President that he will receive India’s full support in h…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate. We thank today’s briefers for their comprehensive briefings on this important topic. We very much appreciate your circulating a very useful concept note (S/2015/678) in that context.
The situation in the Middle East region continues to remain…
It is regrettable that the delegation of Pakistan has once again chosen to misuse the high-level segment of this session of the General Assembly to distort reality and portray a false sense of the picture of the challenges in our region (see
A/70/PV.19). Pakistan claims to be the primary victim of …
That towering figure of our times, Mahatma Gandhi, once said that we must also care about the future world that we ourselves will never see. And indeed, whenever the world has risen collectively to meet its obligations to the future, humankind has made progress in the right direction and gained in s…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2015/684), Special Representative of the Secretary- General Nicholas Haysom his briefing and Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement.
India is proud to call itself Afghanistan’s first strategic partner. We stand read…
I align my statement with those delivered on behalf of the L.69 group and the Group of Four earlier today.
Allow me, Mr. President, to begin by complimenting you personally on behalf of my country and a large number of like-minded developing countries which have looked up to you with hope, admirati…
We would like to begin by first complimenting the facilitator of resolution 69/326, the delegation of South Africa, for having so ably spearheaded the process of consultations over the past month since 21 July, when the draft resolution was submitted. My delegation would like to take this opportunit…
I wish to express my appreciation and felicitations to the delegation of
Armenia for taking this important initiative. I also thank the President of the General Assembly, the Secretariat and all delegations for their widespread support for the consensus that led to the adoption of resolution 69/323…
India is pleased with the Assembly’s adoption today of resolution 69/319. At the outset, I would like to warmly congratulate the delegation of Argentina on having taken the lead on this issue over the past several months. I would particularly like to acknowledge the presence here today of Argentina’…
