This year, the fiftieth anniversary year of the United Nations, the achievements of the Organization in the area of international law have once again been brought into focus. I refer primarily to the adoption in August of the Agreement on Straddling
Traditionally, the law of the sea has been the sp…
Mr. President, may I congratulate you on your election and express my deep satisfaction at seeing a representative of Portugal, an ally and a valued member of the international community, occupy the presidency of the General Assembly in our fiftieth anniversary year.
Anniversaries are occasions to …
Let me at the outset associate myself with the condolences that have been expressed to the victims of the disastrous floods, tragic events, in Egypt last week.
Speaking on behalf of the Nordic countries, I wish to say that the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Develop…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland - on agenda item 95 relating to the International Conference on Families.
Recognition and acceptance of the variety in family structures in different socio-political and cultural systems…
I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - in addressing the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council.
I should like, first of all, to take this opportunity to thank the …
May I congratulate Foreign Minister Essy of Côte d’Ivoire on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. I am confident that he will steer our work to a successful conclusion, and I pledge him the full support of my delegation.
I wish also to take this opportu…
Let me begin by congratulating the President, on his election to his high office. I wish him every success and pledge to him the full support of my delegation.
It gives me pleasure to welcome the new Member States which have joined the Organization since the beginning of the forty-seventh session o…
The international community has
increasingly come to recognize the complex interrelationship between the
environment and social and economic development. The link between the
environment and the economy is but the most obvious example; without a
healthy environment, economic development will not…
Allow me to express my sincere
satisfaction at seeing for the first time a debate in the General Assembly on
the disability issue. I am convinced that this debate will be of crucial
importance for the continuation of the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons and long-term strateg…
I wish to join previous speakers in
congratulating Mr. Ganev on his election to the presidency. I am glad to see
this important office occupied by a representative of one of Europe's new
democracies.
This year 13 new Members are joining our Organization: nine former
Soviet republics as well as …
I would like at the outset to thank the Secretariat — in particular, the able staff of the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea — for its comprehensive reports on oceans and the law of the sea and on sustainable fisheries, and to acknowledge the professional manner in which the two coor…
As we come to this session of the General Assembly, the interna- tional situation is in some respects more serious than it has been since the end ofthe Second World War and the establishment of the Organization. The quantity of armaments is much greater, weapons are more devastating, hunger more sev…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the five Nordic countries-Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland-in explanation of vote on the six draft resolutions on the question of Namibia.
16, The Nordic countries remain firmly convinced that the people of Namibia must be permitted as soon as po…
Mr. President, I should like to join my colleagues who have congratulated you upon YQur election as President of the thUty-sixth ses- sion of the General Assembly. I am convince.d that your experience and wisdom will greatly help you'In finding solutions to the many problems which will be debated at…
Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to join my colleagues in con- gratulating you on your election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly. I am certain that your wisdom and experience will enable you to give the Assembly the leadership that it needs.
250. I should a…
Mr. President, I am happy to join my colleagues in congratulating you on your election as President of the thirty-third session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. I am confident that your experience and wisdom will enable you ta give this Assembly the leadership that it needs if it is to…
Iceland has voted in favour of all the eight draft resolutions adopted by the General Assembly this morning on the question of Namibia. Howevei, I should like to explain that my Government has certain reservations on the wording of some of them. In particular my Government is not able to subscribe t…
Every year, as custom has it, we review here major developments in international relations at the beginning of the session of the General Assembly. I want to do exactly that and present the Icelandic viewpoint on major international events in the past 12 months. In summary form, I will touch on conf…
The total condemnation by the Government of Iceland and the Icelandic people of the policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa has been strongly and repeatedly expressed in the United Nations. This institutionalized form of racial discri- mination runs counter to basic human decency as …
The Nordic countries supported the consensus on General Assembly resolution 3385 (XXX) by which the Comoros was admitted to membership in the United Nations. That resolution re- affirmed the necessity of respecting the unity and territorial integrity of the Comoro archipelago, composed of the island…
