It is with pleasure that I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency at the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly.
It is also a pleasure to speak to the Assembly today as the Prime Minister of a fully sovereign State that seeks to recover its place among the community of nat…
At the outset, I should like to take this opportunity, Mr. President, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to commend your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, for his efforts last month. I thank each of t…
I will start answering the questions in order.
First, to my good friend the Ambassador of Algeria, I will speak in Arabic.
(spoke in Arabic)
I thank him for his kind words. The draft resolution is extremely important to us in Iraq, to the region and to other Arab countries. With regard to the que…
On Tuesday, 1 June, the people of Iraq took the first step towards regaining their full sovereignty and independence. United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi supervised the introduction of a new interim Iraqi Government to assume authority on 30 June, which marks a major success in Iraq’s trans…
Saturday was a historic day for Iraq. We Iraqis have waited so long for our nightmare to be over, and now Saddam Hussein has finally gone, along with the fear, the genocide and the terror that he inflicted, and he is never coming back. Instead, he must now answer to the Iraqi people for his
crimes …
Today I stand before the Assembly representing the voice of the Iraqi citizen who long suffered from cruelty within and outside his homeland. Those within his country inflicted on him the worst kinds of torture: they attacked his honour, assaulted his family, humiliated him, shackled him, oppressed …
Iraq, a founding Member of the United Nations, is being subjected to criminal, tyrannical, barbaric American- British military aggression. This aggression is killing women, children and the elderly, and it is destroying the lives and future of the people of Iraq, who are the people of civilization —…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council for their efforts aimed at reaching a peaceful resolution to the current crisis, which was created by the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, with the intention of launc…
My delegation would like to extend its gratitude to you, Sir, for the convening of this open meeting. We would also like to extend our thanks to the delegation of Malaysia, Chairman of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement, for requesting this meeting, given the need to hear the opinio…
My delegation congratulates you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that your African wisdom will be the best guarantor of the success of the Council’s work under these difficult circumstances. I should also like to thank Germany for it…
I would like to express my thanks to you, Mr. President, and to the members of the Security Council for acceding to the request made by the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement to convene this open meeting. I also have the pleasure of conveying my gratitude to the delegation of South Afri…
I thank you, Sir, and the Security Council for granting Iraq the opportunity to participate in this meeting and to address the Security Council within the time allotted to us.
I listened very carefully to the presentations by Mr. Blix, Executive Chairman of the United Nations
Monitoring, Verificat…
My delegation congratulates you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. We wish you success in your work amid these extraordinarily difficult international circumstances.
We should have liked to have been granted sufficient time, commensurate with the gravity of th…
My statement will address agenda item 35, entitled “Question of Palestine”, and agenda item 36, entitled “Situation in the Middle East”.
At the outset, I would like to confirm the solidarity of the people and Government of Iraq with the Palestinian people in their just struggle to liberate their la…
At the outset, I should like to express our appreciation for the
fact that cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations has become a separate item on our agenda, which will undoubtedly give added impetus to the working methods of the General Assembly and improve its e…
With regard to the decision on the recent motion, my delegation has no other choice than to ask for a separate vote on the twelfth preambular paragraph for the following reasons. First, it does not welcome Iraq’s decision of September to allow the unconditional return of the inspectors and the agree…
My delegation regrets that there has been a request for a motion that no action be taken. This would prevent a Member State from expressing its views in a way that reflects the simple truth, as expressed by the Secretary-General. We also regret that such practices are being tolerated in the General …
My delegation is honoured to present its amendment (A/57/L.17) to the draft resolution entitled “Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency” (A/57/L.14), introduced to the Assembly today. The text of the amendment contains a factual statement quoted from a letter of the Secretary-
General, Mr…
On behalf of the delegation of Iraq to the United Nations, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the report before us today entitled “Strengthening the United Nations: an agenda for further change”. The report clearly outlines the efforts undertaken by the Secretary- General and his team t…
At the outset, I have the pleasure to express my gratitude to the delegation of the brotherly Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for its initiative to include this important item on the agenda of the General Assembly, given the increased tendency to resort to coercive economic measures as a means of political a…
