It gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the Presidency of the Security Council for this month. I am confident that your wisdom and wide experience and your ability will lead to the desired success of our work. I also wish to expres…
At the outset, I would like to extend my congratulations to His Excellency on his election as President of the current session of the General Assembly, wishing him all success in conducting its deliberations and in arriving at conclusions beneficial to the international community. I would like also …
The question of the Middle East and the question of Palestine at its core remain important items on this Assembly's agenda. They will remain so until the desired just solution of these questions is achieved and peace prevails throughout the Middle East.
My delegation participates in the discussion …
Allow me at the outset to extend to the President our sincere thanks for steering our deliberations and to the participants for enriching our discussions aimed at exchanging views on the assessment of progress in the implementation of the commitments made at the Copenhagen Summit. I would like to hi…
Our commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights today is a unique opportunity to reaffirm the fundamental humanitarian principles that form the underpinnings of the Declaration as comprehensive and indivisible rights.
Our responsibility today is to provide…
The question of the Middle East, at the core of which is the question of Palestine, remains an important item on the agenda of this Organization. Despite the progress made on the Palestinian-Israeli track with the signing of the Wye River Memorandum on 23 October 1998, and despite the beginning of t…
At the outset, it is my pleasure to congratulate you, Sir, on your leadership of the Council. I am convinced that your wisdom, experience and diplomatic skills will undoubtedly ensure the complete success of the Council’s work.
The regrettable Lockerbie incident, which killed many innocent civilian…
I would like to make a few remarks on the draft resolution entitled “International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings”, which is contained in document A/52/653 and is being considered under agenda item 152.
Jordan reiterates its condemnation of international terrorist acts in all …
The question of the Middle East, at the heart of which is the Palestinian question, is one of the important perennial items on the agenda of our Organization. We had hoped — indeed, we had been convinced — that new achievements would emerge on the road to peace and that we would move towards peace i…
It gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by congratulating you, Mr. President, and the Government and people of your friendly country on your election as President of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly. I am quite confident that you will conduct the proceedings of this session …
The question of the Middle East, at the core of which is the question of Palestine, remains an important standing item on the agenda of this Organization. We had believed — indeed, we had hoped — that more progress would have been made along the path to peace five years after the start of the peace …
Permit me at the outset, Sir, to extend warm congratulations to Mr. Razali on the confidence shown in him by the international community in electing him President of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. I take this opportunity to extend my best wishes to him and to the other members of t…
May I at the outset express my delegation’s thanks to you, Mr. President, for having rapidly agreed to this resumed session of the General Assembly to consider the situation of our brother country, Lebanon. We hope, as President Hraoui said yesterday, that the results will be commensurate with the a…
I have the honour today to represent my country, Jordan, at the resumed fiftieth session of the United Nations General Assembly on public administration and development to discuss a very important subject: the role that public administration should play to effectively enhance development requirement…
Allow me to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to the other members of the Council for urgently convening this meeting, the second held today to deal with questions relating to the Middle East. We express that appreciation in the context of the worsening situation in relations betwee…
Allow me, Mr. President, to begin my statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States — over which I have the honour of presiding this month — by extending to you our sincere congratulations on your assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would emphasize that your wide exper…
The situation in the Middle East, with its core issue, the question of Palestine, continues to be an important item on the agenda of the international community as represented by this Organization. My delegation’s participation in this debate stems from its firmly held belief in the vital role of th…
It gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by congratulating you, Sir, and on the Government and people of your country, Portugal, on your election as President of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly, which coincides with the Golden Jubilee of the United Nations. I am confident that, …
Three weeks ago today, my country, Jordan, and Israel exchanged the instruments of ratification of the Jordanian-Israeli Peace Treaty, thus crowning a three-year effort of bilateral negotiations within the framework of the Madrid Conference. In this regard, and in addition to the feelings of satisfa…
It is my pleasure to speak on behalf of my delegation on item 92, an agenda for development. At the outset, I should like sincerely to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for the subsequent report to the agenda for development he has issued recently.
There …
