We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his second consolidated report on progress in the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and for his report on the implementation of recommendations contained in his report on the causes of conflict and promotion of dur…
We welcome the opportunity to participate in the joint debate under agenda item 11: Report of the Security Council, and agenda item 53: Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters.
I join other speakers before me in thanking Amb…
We welcome this opportunity to participate in the debate, under agenda item 10, on the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/59/1). We thank the Secretary-General for the report and for the statement he made at the commencement of the general debate introducing the repor…
We are pleased to participate in this joint debate on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly and the strengthening of the United Nations system. We thank
the Secretary-General for the detailed documentation presented under the two agenda items. We express our appreciation for the in…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. May I assure you of India’s full support in ensuring its success.
As we gather here in the sixtieth year since the United Nations was founded, we might perhaps pause to reflect on th…
As this is the first statement I am making in the Security Council, let me begin by extending my warm greetings to you, Mr. President, and to your colleagues in the Council. Please allow me also to extend our heartiest felicitations to you for assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this…
India, as President of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) for this year, is privileged to introduce, on behalf of its sponsors, draft resolution A/63/L.7 on cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian- African Legal Consultative Organization.
The draft resolution, in…
I am grateful for the opportunity to express our views on the report of the Economic and Social Council for 2008 (A/63/3). India attaches great importance to the work of the Economic and Social Council, and believes that its strengthened structure will assist in better discharging its role as the pr…
Let me begin by expressing my delegation’s full support for the efforts to make the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly a success.
I wish to thank the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council for presenting the report of the Council (A/66/3) and for his encouraging leadership.
We …
We thank you, Sir, for arranging this public meeting of the Security Council on an issue of particular importance and relevance to the United Nations membership.
The adoption of resolution 1526 (2004) in January this year marked another important step in the work of the Committee established pursua…
The Government of India has strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack in Grozny, which killed the President of the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation and others. We extend our condolences to the Government and the people of the Russian Federation and to the bereaved families on this tr…
We appreciate this opportunity, in today’s open meeting of the Security Council, to express our views on the vital issue of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The threat of terror and WMD proliferation coming together is a real one and should clearly be an issue of the highe…
I thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling this open debate of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East at such short notice.
The targeted killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi is unjustified and unacceptable and cannot be condoned under any circumstances. Such action, follo…
We thank the Acting President and the Deputy Secretary-General for their introductory remarks. We also commend the World Health Organization for its contribution to this debate, including through the World report on road traffic injury prevention. We express our appreciation to the delegation of Oma…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, on Germany’s assumption of the presidency of the Council for April. I also congratulate Ambassador De La Sablière of France for his stewardship of the Council during March.
It has been 10 months since we last had an opportunity in the Security Council to consider …
We thank you, Mr. President, for providing us with this opportunity to convey our views on recent developments in the international community’s collective fight against terrorism. This debate assumes particular relevance in the context of ongoing measures to introduce significant and far-reaching ch…
My delegation requested the floor to make a general statement in explanation of position after the adoption of the resolution contained in document A/58/L.52, entitled “Promotion of religious and cultural understanding, harmony and cooperation”, under agenda item 44, “Culture of peace”. My delegatio…
My delegation is pleased to participate in the debate in plenary in observance of the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.
At the outset, we would like to pay tribute to the memory …
It has been over three years since the current phase of unrest and violence in the Middle East began. Since then, almost 4,000 Israelis and Palestinians have lost their lives in the raging conflict, to which most have not been party. Many others have been wounded or have lost their livelihoods and e…
As we honour the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we would like to reiterate our traditional solidarity with the people of Palestine and express India’s principled and continuing support for their inalienable rights. India’s bond of friendship with the Palestinian people …
