Please accept my delegation’s congratulations, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July.
While the agenda item under consideration today is the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the issue that has so far prevented the Council from adopting…
As we made clear earlier, certain domestic procedures were required to be completed before India could consider endorsing the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development. The necessary domestic procedures have since been completed.
The forthcoming World Summit on Sustainabl…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on having convened this special Meeting of the General Assembly devoted to information and communications technologies for development. This initiative is a most timely one. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his address to the special Meeti…
Mr. President, we once again welcome you to the Council and would like to convey our deep appreciation to you for calling this meeting on an issue which is of particular importance to the international community as well as to my delegation.
My delegation had made a detailed statement during the ope…
We welcome you, Sir, to the Council and would like to convey our deep appreciation of the fine contribution that Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani and his dedicated team have been making to the work of Council. Your delegation’s web site for its work in the Council presidency merits commendation. We hope…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this emergency meeting to discuss the ever-deteriorating situation in the occupied territories, to which, most regrettably, no immediate end seems to be in sight.
In the past few weeks, the Council has adopted three resolutions and one presidential stateme…
Mr. President, we thank you for convening this emergency meeting of the Council. We also thank the Secretary-General for his statement to the Council today on the sharp deterioration of the situation in the Middle East.
We are meeting this evening in extraordinary circumstances. The Council express…
Thank you, Mr. President, for accommodating me in the forenoon portion of today’s Council meeting. We welcome you to the Council and convey our deep appreciation of the contribution of Ambassador Ole Peter Kolby and his team to the work of the Council. Today’s meeting is timely and, under your presi…
For some years now, the General Assembly has gone through the motions on this agenda item knowing that our words would fall on deaf ears in Kabul and Kandahar, from where the Taliban rode Afghanistan like an incubus. This year, though, we meet when it seems that the Afghans might be coming to the en…
India, a founding member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), attaches the highest importance and value to the objectives of the Agency. Since draft resolution A/56/L.10 pertains to the activities of the IAEA, we will go along with it. Nevertheless, we have considerable difficulty with …
The need for cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter- Parliamentary Union is more real now than it has ever been before. Durable solutions for the enormous range of challenges and problems that most societies face require the promotion of democracy, of tolerance and of respect for diver…
We thank the Secretary- General for document A/56/371, in which he reports on the progress of the implementation of the recommendations contained in his April 1998 report (A/52/871) on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in
Africa. We also thank the…
We are gathered here once again to discuss the situation in the Middle East, a region of great importance and concern to the entire international community.
The relationship between India and the Arab world has been fashioned by history on the larger canvas of the meeting between the Indian and Ara…
Today we solemnly commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The Government and the people of India once again reaffirm their solidarity with the people of Palestine, who have struggled bravely for the past five decades to attain their inalienable rights.
India’s b…
My delegation welcomes the comprehensive and informative reports of the Secretary-General on matters relating to the law of the sea and ocean affairs. We are also pleased to co- sponsor the draft resolution on oceans and the law of the sea.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, of 19…
We thank the Secretary- General for the comprehensive road map provided in his report (A/56/326) on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration. That report provides a satisfactory analysis of the state of play on the various goals which were agreed upon a year ago and outlines a large number a…
I congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session. I also take this opportunity to warmly congratulate the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and the United Nations on being honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.
This session of the Gene…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report (A/56/523) on the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, a welcome initiative of the Islamic Republic of Iran. We would like to express our appreciation to the eminent persons who collaborated in producing the book Crossing the Divide: Dia…
We have read with great interest the comprehensive and informative report of the Secretary-General entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners, in particular the private sector” (A/56/323). There can be no doubt that the process of globalization, characterized by liber…
I thank the Secretary- General for his report contained in document A/56/270, on the final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s. I would also like to express our appreciation for the extremely useful report contained i…
