Madam President, may I begin by joining previous speakers in congratulating you on your assumption of your new duties as President of the Security Council for the month of November. It is a tribute and a challenge to your considerable diplomatic skills. May I also thank Sir David Hannay for the exem…
The Security Council has once again produced for the General Assembly a report with a long and detailed list of its activities between June 1993 and June 1994. From the report, the volume of the Council’s work in the interest of the maintenance of international peace and security appears particularl…
Let me begin by thanking the United Nations and the Coordinator of the International Year of the Family, Mr. Henryk Sakolski for organizing this International Conference on the Family. While fully supporting the statement made by my German colleague on behalf of the European Union, I should like to …
I should like first to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General
It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of the Italian Government at this forty-ninth session of the General Assembly on an issue to which we attach special importance: the first real reform of the Sec…
Mr. President, I am delighted to begin by congratulating you and your country, Côte d’Ivoire, on your election as President of the General Assembly at this session. I also wish to thank your distinguished predecessor, Ambassador Insanally.
Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the Sover…
Italy is pleased and honoured to be among the sponsors of the draft resolution contained in document A/48/L.62, entitled "Observer status for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the General Assembly".
The Order of Malta has been in existence for almost 1,000 years. For the past two centuries i…
Italy salutes the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as a document of outstanding importance. This Agreement succeeds in eliminating the obstacles which prevented a considerable number of industrialized countries, including Ital…
On behalf of the States parties to the Antarctic Treaty, I wish before the voting to express our regret that for the ninth time since 1985, and despite the efforts that have been made, no consensus has been reached on the question of Antarctica. In the view of the States parties, consensus is the on…
Italy looks forward to the establishment of an open-ended working group on the question of an increase in the membership of the Security Council. In today’s world, this essential organ of the United Nations is called on to play an unprecedented and crucial role. Needless to say, it is not enough to …
I am very pleased to address the General Assembly on behalf of the Italian Government and the Minister of Interior of Italy on the occasion of these plenary meetings devoted to the drug problem, one of the most serious evils affecting today’s society.
My opinion is still that it is not enough to ag…
Italy has consistently supported the University for Peace since its foundation by the General Assembly 13 years ago. As has just been recalled by Ambassador Tattenbach, the University’s host country is the Republic of Costa Rica, whose essential role, in proposing the initiative and in making it a r…
Italy wishes to reaffirm its strong commitment to the peace process in Central America, which began with the historic Esquipulas Agreements. My country wholeheartedly supports the Government and the people of Nicaragua as they develop their democracy and their economy. Over the past few years, Italy…
I would like to express our warmest congratulations to Guyana and to you personally, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session.
I am also pleased that in the past year the United Nations family has grown to include the Former Yugoslav Republic of Ma…
Two weeks from today, during the ministerial Council in Rome, Italy will assume the chairmanship of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). That is why I am speaking after our
In the year of its chairmanship of the CSCE, Italy intends fully to play the political role which is a…
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to express
my delegation's satisfaction that this resumed forty-fourth session also i s taking
place under your stewardship. Indeed, your presidency augurs well for the success
of our work. Nothing could be more f i t t i n g than to see a most distinguished…
The Italian delegation is particularly happy to support the draft resolution con- cerning the celebration of the quincentenary of the discovery of America, an event which, as the preamble indicates, represented a decisive step towards the achievement of a clear conception of our planet. The draft re…
The views of the 10 mem- ber States of the European Community on the situation in Afghanistan have been expressed in detail by the repre- sentative of the United Kingdom in his statement on be- half of the Community at the preceding meeting. My dele- gation fully shares those views.
107. As I speak…
Mr. President, I have asked to speak to convey the deep appreciation of my Government and delegation for the expressions of solidarity that you were so kind as to offer on behalf of the General Assembly in the tragedy which has plunged my country into mourning. Allow me also to take this opportunity…
May I convey to the President my wannest congratulations on your election, which is proofof the esteem and appreciation with which the United Repub- lic ofTanzania is justly regarded throughout the world for the efficiency and realism which distinguish its con- tribution to international affairs.
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The decision to cast a positive vote on the recommendation ofthe Credentials Committee concerning the credentials ofthe delegation of Democratic Kampuchea was a difficult one for the Italian Government. My Government is on record as having firmly condemned the crimes committed by the Pol Pot regime …
