My delegation would like at the outset to associate itself with the statement made by His Excellency the Permanent Representative of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on behalf of the Arab Group in the United Nations.
The General Assembly is discussing today an issue that truly touches …
I apologize for taking the floor again. However, I am compelled to do so to show the real truth.
Paragraph 31 of the Secretary-General’s report includes much information. However, the Secretary- General never stated that Iraq is internationally responsible. While the statement made by the Ambassado…
My delegation is taking the floor to clarify some facts concerning the points raised a moment ago by the Kuwaiti delegation. When the delegation of Kuwait yesterday attacked my country, Iraq did not ask to exercise its right of reply, because the item under discussion related to the report of the Se…
I should like at the outset to congratulate the President of the General Assembly and the members of the Bureau on their election to their important posts at the helm of the Assembly for this session. I should like to express our thanks and appreciation to the Secretary-General, and to pay tribute t…
At the outset, the delegation of Iraq would like to express its great appreciation for the efforts made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to fully implement its mandate in accordance with its statute, to implement the safeguards system, to attain the noble objective of ridding humanki…
My delegation did not want to take the floor again, but is obliged to do so because the falsification of facts by the Zionist entity today is very distressing. In its view, the Zionist occupation of southern Lebanon is not an
occupation; it is self-defence. What a lie! This is simply an attempt to …
My delegation wishes to exercise its right of reply with respect to the statement made by the representative of the Zionist entity. Let me begin by stating clearly that the Zionist entity is the most brutal occupying force of modern times. It heads the list when it comes to perpetrating crimes and v…
After seven years of deliberations within the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council, the General Assembly has the right to make a comprehensive review of the Wor…
May I at the outset express my sincere thanks to the delegation of Iran for taking the initiative to include the item “Year of Dialogue among Civilizations” in the agenda of the General Assembly.
At the threshold of the third millennium, the significance of a dialogue among civilizations and cultur…
I should like to express our delegation’s gratitude for the introduction of the draft resolution on “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter- Parliamentary Union” during the past year. Just a few months ago, from 30 August to 1 September 2000, the Conference of Presiding Officers of Nat…
In conformity with Article 19 of the Charter, my delegation is being denied the right to vote. This is because my country has been unable to pay its assessed contributions to the United Nations owing to the economic sanctions imposed on it. My delegation has done everything possible to find a way to…
First, there is a close relationship among disarmament conventions, especially those dealing with a single category like weapons of mass destruction. Disregarding this fact is indeed a reflection of selectivity and exacerbates the problems instead of solving them.
We would have liked Mr. Bustani’s …
I apologize for asking to speak yet again, but I will be very brief. I should like to respond to one particular point that has just been made.
Anyone who speaks in this Hall should respect other speakers’ intelligence, as he should also respect facts and reality. When the representative of Kuwait s…
I regret having to take the floor at this late hour, but I am obliged to respond to the representative of the Kuwaiti regime, a puppet of the United States and talking on its behalf. The representative of Kuwait wants to tell the General Assembly and the representatives of the States in attendance w…
The use or threat of use of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion is a flagrant violation of the principles embodied in the United Nations Charter and international law, particularly in Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Charter stipulating that the Organization is ba…
The comprehensive report of the Secretary-General contained in document A/55/1 covers the increasing activities of the United Nations in a world undergoing enormous changes — a fact that underscores the importance of the role of the United Nations and the need to enhance the Organization and promote…
I apologize for asking for the floor again.
I repeat that Iraq has not waged such a campaign. We have pointed out the daily Kuwaiti and Saudi aggression against Iraq since 1991 and the attempts that have been made to sabotage our interests. Once again, the representative of Kuwait raised the issue …
The statement made by the Foreign Minister of Iraq clearly outlined the manifestations and elements of the Anglo- American aggression against Iraq and the Kuwaiti role in that aggression. Kuwait bears the same legal responsibility as the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
W…
It is my pleasure to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri on his assumption of the presidency of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, and I should like to convey to him our best wishes for a successful accomplishment of his tasks. I should also like to express our high esteem to his predecesso…
The statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait to the General Assembly this morning contained a distortion of facts that requires a reply.
First of all, concerning the issue of those missing in action, the Kuwaiti Minister attempted to politicize the matter and to confine it exclu…
