At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July 2005. The agenda of the Council for the month is indicative of the important issues that the Council is called upon to deal with. I have no doubt that those issues wil…
We welcome this opportunity to participate in the High-level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Financing for Development. We have consistently held that the United Nations should have the pivotal role in setting the global development agenda, including in relation to trade, external debt, money an…
India associates itself with the statements made by the representatives of Yemen on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. My delegation would like to thank the Secretary-General for the comprehensive report on the agenda item under consideration toda…
Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to address the General Assembly.
My delegation associates itself with the statements made by the representative of Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
We …
We are appreciative of the fact that you, Sir, are personally presiding over this meeting. We also congratulate Denmark on its exemplary handling of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May.
We welcome this opportunity to participate in this debate to discuss the current policy a…
India attaches great importance to today’s adoption of the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. We congratulate the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on terrorism, Mr. Rohan Perera, on successfully guiding the work of the Committee in concluding the Nuclear Terrorism Conventio…
We welcome your initiative, Sir, in convening this series of plenary meetings of the General Assembly to consider the Secretary-General’s report “In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all”. The report is well structured and well intentioned and sets out the issues tha…
My delegation deeply regrets that the Sixth Committee was unable to recommend to the
General Assembly a text that was acceptable to all Member States on a matter of paramount importance such as an international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings. We voted against the politi…
In the early hours of the morning of Sunday, 26 December 2005, disaster struck. A massive earthquake off the west coast of northern Sumatra triggered powerful tsunamis that, in a matter of hours, wreaked untold damage to people living in the coastal areas and islands of India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, T…
This year, International Human Rights Day commemorates the fifty-sixth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the eleventh anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. We focus our attention today on the theme of human rights ed…
My delegation welcomes this opportunity to participate in the annual discussions in the General Assembly on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security, and on international assistance for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
The presidential election in Afg…
On behalf of the Government and the people of India, we express our deep sorrow at the passing of Yasser Arafat, the late President of the Palestinian Authority and Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. We convey our sincere condolences on this occasion to the wife and the daughter of…
We welcome the opportunity to participate in the discussions on the modalities, format and organization of the high-level plenary meeting of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. We thank the Secretary-General for his report on this item (A/59/545), for his report on the integrated and coord…
My delegation welcomes the opportunity to participate in the debate on this item
during the tenth anniversary year of the entry into force of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. We thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive reports on matters relating to the law of the …
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for the reports presented under this item and for the useful introduction provided by the Under-Secretary-General of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
We associate ourselves with the statement made by the representative of Qatar on…
We congratulate the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the excellent role it has been playing in promoting the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and, in the process, ensuring that it is safe and secure. India has always worked very closely with the IAEA as a partner in developme…
We are pleased to see the United Kingdom presiding over this meeting of the Security Council.
In an earlier intervention on women and peace and security, we advised that the Council, in its examination of the issue, remain within the area of its mandate, namely the impact of conflict on women and t…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report on the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children (A/59/274). We have read this report with interest.
The special session of the General Assembly on children, held in 2002, as well as the current report, recognized the important divide…
We are happy to be participating in this event to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III), held in Vienna from 19 to 30 July 1999. The theme of the Conference, “Space benefits for humanity in the twen…
We thank you, Mr. President, for providing this opportunity to the general membership to express its views on the threats posed by terrorist acts to international peace and security. I would also like to thank Ambassador Denisov, Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to res…
