At the outset, and on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I wish to reiterate our solidarity with the people of Palestine in their tireless efforts and unwavering determination to pursue their national aspirations and in their courageous struggle to defen…
May I begin by extending our gratitude to the Secretary- General for his comprehensive reports on various aspects of the situation in Afghanistan. I would also like to thank him and his Special Representative, as well as all their colleagues in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, f…
Allow me, at the outset, to express our gratitude to Mr. ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his tireless efforts and for the insightful report to the General Assembly on the main activities of the Agency during the year 2006.
The report indicates that …
May I begin by congratulating you for assuming the Council’s presidency this month and thank you for having convened this timely and important meeting. Our thanks also go to the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Mr. Koenigs, as well as to their colleagues in the United Nations Assist…
At the outset, Mr. President, since this is the first time I am speaking before the General Assembly, allow me to congratulate you on your election to lead this body and to assure you of my delegation’s full support and cooperation with you and your Office during your presidency. I would also like t…
I have heard again a number of absurd distortions and baseless allegations against my country by the representative of the Zionist regime, a regime which has based its policies, practices and behaviour on occupation, State terrorism, violence and bloodshed. I would like to place on record that my de…
I apologize for taking the floor again. It is so unfortunate that our very good neighbour country tried to change the nature of a bilateral problem, in two senses: technicality and locality. It is a change in terms of technicality because it is a change from our technical understanding of existing b…
I am speaking in exercise of the right of reply to respond to the unacceptable claims made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates. This afternoon the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates made some unacceptable claims against Iranian territorial integrity in the vicin…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session, and to reassure you of the full support and cooperation of my delegation. I also extend my felicitations to your able and professional secretariat.
Regarding the requ…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the presidency for convening the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development.
We are on the road heading to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In order to achieve the MDGs, much remains to be done by nati…
This is the fourth time in the last 12 months that, in an unwarranted move orchestrated by a few of its permanent members, the Security Council is being abused to take an unlawful, unnecessary and unjustifiable action against the peaceful nuclear programme of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which pres…
Allow me to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. We also wish to thank you for convening this meeting and to commend you for your excellent stewardship of the Council. We also wish to extend our appreciation …
I wish to place on the record my delegation’s deep concern over,
and rejection of, the attempts made by certain members to misuse the General Assembly’s procedure to raise an issue that has never been on the agenda of its sixty-first session and that has no relevance to the agenda item under which …
Today is a sad day for the non-proliferation regime. Only a few days ago, the Prime Minister of the Israeli regime boasted about his regime’s nuclear weapons, but
instead of even raising an eyebrow, let alone addressing that serious threat to international peace and security and to the non-prolifer…
My delegation joined the consensus on the resolution just adopted. However, I would like to express my delegation’s reservation on those parts of the report
contained in document A/61/648 that may be construed as recognition of the Israeli regime.
We voted in favour of draft resolution A/61/L.47 and of
the draft resolutions contained in documents A/61/407 and A/61/408, under agenda items 31 and 32, respectively, on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the report of the Special Committ…
Allow me to begin by expressing my appreciation to the Permanent Representative of Qatar for presenting the annual report of the Council to the Assembly. The report deserves our careful consideration in all its aspects, including its format and content.
We associate ourselves with the statement mad…
I wish to begin, Sir, by congratulating you on your assumption of the Council’s presidency for this month. I am confident that you will lead the Council with your well-known wisdom and ability. I also extend my appreciation to your predecessor.
Allow me also to thank Ambassador Oshima for his infor…
My delegation voted in favour of the resolutions just adopted under agenda items 13 and 14, on the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine, respectively. The views of the Islamic Republic of Iran on those important issues were articulated during the general debate and the debate o…
At the very outset, and on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I would like to reiterate the solidarity of the Government and the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Palestinian people and Government in their brave struggle to defend their ina…
