On behalf of the Government of the State of Israel, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your efforts and stewardship in conducting these very sensitive and complicated deliberations on the establishment of an effective Human Rights Council. I would also like to…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership of the Council during the month of February and for convening this very important meeting. I wish also to thank the Chairpersons of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee and the 15…
As the Secretary-General said in his remarks this morning, international migration today cries out for a global discussion. Indeed this is an important forum, and I look forward to our discussions in the coming days.
Israel is an immigrant country. Since its establishment, waves of immigrants have …
Israel is a known leader in research on desertification and land degradation. The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, in the Negev region, where the international conference we are hosting will take place, is considered to be among the world’s top institutions in this field. Israel’s init…
We deeply regret that the Second Committee has once again become a political platform for advancing one-sided, unbalanced and inaccurate information regarding the Palestinian- Israeli conflict.
The Second Committee has a vital responsibility before it. Addressing issues that neither enhance our wor…
Israel has maintained longstanding support for humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, and we are pleased to join the consensus on this resolution. We worked closely with the European Union, the United States and the Palestinians in order to be able to support this resolution and we are v…
Israel did not take part in yesterday’s annual ritual of turning 29 November into a
Palestinian festival. We very much regret the fact that some of our neighbours have hijacked a date that marks a historic decision by this Assembly to which they themselves objected. We feel it is tragic that dwelli…
As I listened to the statement of my Palestinian colleague, I realized to my regret that I was hearing the same recording that I have heard so many times in the past. Unlike the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories, which has dramatically changed during recent years, my colleague’s st…
The State of Israel is proud to lend its support and co-sponsorship to the draft resolution entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Italy, the host country of the 2006 Winter Games.
Athletic com…
At this unique and historic moment, I would like to extend Israel’s special appreciation and thanks to the general membership of the Assembly for adopting this unprecedented resolution and to the original sponsors, Australia, Canada, Russia and the United States. The active support of the European U…
It is an honour for me to address the Assembly, on behalf of the State of Israel, on an item of such importance to my country and my people and to victims and survivors of the Holocaust of all faiths and nationalities across the globe. I feel moved and privileged to present this historic draft resol…
Mr. President, I wish to thank you very much for your condolences, which I know are heartfelt and sincere, as are, I know, the condolences expressed by my colleague from Liechtenstein.
Mr. President, allow me to thank you for your leadership of the Council during this rather busy month of October a…
I just wanted — and I feel pretty confident that I am doing it on behalf of
many in this Hall — to express our appreciation for a lecture on human rights, world terror and nuclear proliferation from one of the world’s greatest experts in that field.
It is my unique pleasure to praise His Excellency Ambassador Dan Gillerman, my emissary to the United Nations, who is in the Chair at present, upon his election to the post of Vice-President at this session of the General Assembly, and to wish him much success.
These are optimistic times in the Mid…
I have come here from Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people for over 3,000 years and the undivided and eternal capital of the State of Israel.
At the outset, I should like to express the profound feelings of empathy of the people of Israel for the American nation, and our sincere condolences …
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to congratulate you again on your leadership of the Security Council. I should also like to congratulate Mr. Alvaro de Soto on the assumption of his important and daunting tasks and to commend him for his clear, comprehensive and professional report.
As we sit…
It is indeed fitting that the Assembly is meeting to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The Organization rose out of the devastation of that terrible experience, and its noble mission was crafted as a response to its unspeakable horrors, which shocked the consci…
Allow me to begin by extending Israel’s deepest condolences to our colleagues from the Observer Mission of the Holy See and the Permanent Missions of Poland and Italy, as well as to the millions throughout the Christian world, and beyond it, who mourn the passing of Pope John Paul II. Israel conside…
Israel shares the international community’s deep sorrow over the thousands of lives lost to the ravages of nature and its profound sense of concern for those victims still suffering.
The United Nations was itself born out of calamity. Its birth heralded the fact that cooperation and international b…
Israel is dismayed that the substantive debate in the Second Committee has yet again devolved into a forum for passing unbalanced resolutions motivated by politicized interests which are one-sided, misleading and unproductive. It is especially disappointing this year because it appears that today th…
