I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. All reports, reviews, analyses and consultations on development since the Monterrey conference lead to one major overall conclusion — namely, the international community has fallen far short of mobilizing the level of resources re…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, I take this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this plenary meeting of the General Assembly and to congratulate you in general for your efforts to ensure that we prepare effectively for a successful high-level plenary meeting of the sixtie…
My delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting at the request of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations group. It is entirely appropriate that the General Assembly should devote specific attention to the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, which has brought d…
We associate ourselves with the statement that will be made later on by the
representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
In view of the importance of this issue in relation to the situation in the Caribbean, I am speaking this morning on behalf of the member States of the Caribb…
The Permanent Representative of Barbados spoke this morning on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and we support his statement.
I only wish now to make some additional remarks with reference to the specific measures undertaken by Jamaica to implement the Plan of Action resulting from the …
I wish to join in thanking the President of the Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Marjatta Rasi, for her introduction of the Report of the Council and to congratulate her on her able and efficient leadership of the Council during 2004. The Council made good progress in the discharge of its man…
The report of the Security Council tells us that, over the past 12 months, the pace of activities was intense as the Council addressed a wide range of issues. We were not given a detailed analysis of the issues covered, but the report does give us an adequate descriptive account of the various matte…
In his report on the work of the Organization the Secretary General described the past year as an extraordinarily challenging year for the United Nations. Our delegation agrees that there have been great difficulties and in the circumstances we should congratulate the Secretary-General for his stewa…
The representative of Algeria spoke this morning on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and we support his statement. We only wish now to add a few points of emphasis from the standpoint of the delegation of Jamaica.
The primacy of the General Assembly and its central place as the chief deliberative…
I congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. You can be assured of Jamaica’s fullest support and cooperation during your tenure.
The outgoing President, Julian Hunte of Saint Lucia, deserves commendation for his energy and outstandi…
Thank you very much, Mr. President, for your words of solidarity and support in connection with the devastation that was caused by Hurricane Ivan on Jamaica over the weekend. It was a very anxious time for us, but I have to say that to some extent we were spared the worst by some movement in the dir…
Jamaica welcomes the opportunity to speak on agenda item 43, on the report of the Economic and Social Council for 2007 (A/62/3). We are particularly pleased to do so following the successful convening this summer of the annual ministerial review and the launch of the Development Cooperation Forum. W…
Allow me at the outset to express my congratulations to you, Sir, on your leadership of the Security Council during the month of February. Your diplomatic skills and gracious style have obviously ensured the smooth and effective handling of the various matters which have come before the Council. I h…
I have the honour to make this statement this morning on behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that are Members of the United Nations.
We associate ourselves with the statement made this morning by the representative of Morocco, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
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There is no higher duty for the United Nations than the promotion of peace. To carry out this mandate requires us to reach beyond the operation of conflict resolution mechanisms. It should also seek to entrench within societies in the global community the values of peaceful coexistence, tolerance, n…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that are members of the United Nations, namely, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadin…
We support the statements made this morning by the representative of Algeria, on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement; by the representative of Morocco, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China; and by the representative of Suriname, on behalf of the Caribbean Community. We wish only to emphasize a numb…
Jamaica associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Morocco on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. We also join previous speakers in thanking the Secretary-General for his report on the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major Un…
The Jamaican delegation wishes to align itself with the statement made this afternoon by the Permanent Representative of Morocco, speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Our delegation welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Develo…
The report of the Security Council which is before us (A/58/2) is a bulky document of 221 pages, the real substance of which is contained in the introductory section of 14 pages, containing a descriptive account of the Council’s activities, with the rest of the document consisting of documentary inf…
