Mr. President, allow me at the outset to express to you our congratulations on your assumption to the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that African wisdom will certainly help crown the deliberations of the Council with success under your leadership.
We would also …
The international community has been working for 57 years
to strengthen the United Nations and to bring it into line with today’s realities. In that context, reform of the Organization is a programme of vital importance, and Security Council reform represents one of the main aspects of its moderniz…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate the President and all the members of the Bureau on their election to guide the work of the General Assembly at this session. I also wish to convey our appreciation and gratitude to the Secretary-General for his annual report on the work of the Organization, whi…
Mr. President, I would like, at the outset, to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly and would like to express my appreciation of the United Nations Secretary-General’s eloquent statement at the opening of this session, which gave good support to multilateralism…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having responded so quickly by holding this meeting to consider the terrorist and criminal actions committed by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people. We believe that your swift reaction was prompted by the circumstances of this horrible cri…
For the fourth time in the course of a short, yet tragic period fraught with killing and destruction and drenched in blood, the Arab Group along with other good people, has requested the convening of an open meeting of the Security Council concerning the Palestinian question.
But after all we have …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Iraq, for having convened this emergency meeting of the Security Council. This meeting is being held under very difficult international circumstances resulting from the Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people and its …
My delegation regrets that its draft amendment has not been adopted by the General Assembly. It would have reflected the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Iraq as mentioned in IAEA documents. Considering the current unbalanced state of the draft resolution, my delegation…
My delegation would like to ask delegations to vote against the no-action motion that is intended to deprive a Member State of its right to express its position with regard to a draft resolution and to introduce a paragraph that would reflect the simple truth, as expressed in the reports of the Inte…
My delegation has presented a draft amendment, contained in document A/56/L.11, to the draft resolution entitled “Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency”, which would be inserted as a new paragraph after paragraph 12.
We fully understand that this draft resolution is the result of consult…
The fraternal people of Cuba have been suffering for over 40 years from the blockade imposed on them by the United States. This blockade has caused immense suffering for the civilian population and has damaged the Cuban economy. The 1996 Helms-Burton Act has also had significant extraterritorial eff…
I am glad to extend to you, Sir, my congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this important session. We are fully confident that you will guide its work to complete success. I am also pleased to congratulate the Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, on his re-electi…
I repeat once again that Iraq has never threatened Kuwait. It is in the interest of Iraq to see stability and security prevail in the region. It is also in the interest of the Arab countries.
The question of the no-flight zones has already been dealt with and resolved through several United Nations…
My delegation has asked to exercise its right of reply to clarify and correct some of the information in the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Acting Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait. My delegation would like to say the following.
First, the Acting Prime Minister of the St…
Today the General Assembly is discussing a topic that may provide a glimmer of hope in the midst of a world experiencing a state of indescribable terror caused by wars, bombs, smart missiles, the lacerated corpses of children and the images of displaced women, elderly and children who have managed t…
Interest in the protection of the environment has fortunately, increased greatly during the past quarter-century and in the beginning of this century. Iraq supports fully the idea of preserving the environment and of not exploiting it — not just during periods of war but also in peacetime.
Iraq was…
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to the Open-ended Working Group for its efforts in preparing the report under consideration. In our opinion, the report reflects the experience of the international community in one of the main organs of the United Nations, the Security Council.
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I should like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for giving us this opportunity to pay tribute, here in the General Assembly Hall, to the memory of the late Mr. Ismat Kittani.
The late Mr. Ismat Kittani was one of a small number of distinguished Iraqi citizens who served their country in ma…
My delegation wishes to exercise its right of reply in order to respond to some references in the statement made by the representative of Australia.
Before making our observations, we must congratulate Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on …
My delegation wishes to express its gratitude to Ambassador Ryan, the Permanent Representative of Ireland and President of the Security Council, for introducing the report of the Security Council under consideration. We also wish to thank the Secretariat for preparing this comprehensive report.
We …
