I would like to express my gratitude for this opportunity to address the General Assembly on the situation in Afghanistan. We are pleased to sponsor the draft resolution before us (A/66/L.10). Given the challenging situation that Afghanistan faces today, it is of particular importance to demonstrate…
Japan endorses the statement just made by the representative of Lebanon on behalf of the Asia-Pacific Group. At this time, my delegation would like to make a statement as a follow- up to its statement last year (see A/65/PV.61).
Though little time is left between now and the target date for achieve…
At the outset, I would like to pay tribute to the Chairs of the Council’s three counter-terrorism-related Committees for their informative and comprehensive briefings on developments during the last six months.
We commend the successful holding of the Secretary-General’s symposium on international …
We have already explained our position on the issues that the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has just raised. I will refrain from entering into a detailed rebuttal of the statements made by the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Suffice it to say th…
My delegation has asked to speak in exercise of the right of reply in response to the statement made by the representative of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It is most regrettable that we are compelled to respond at this late hour, when all other delegations are engaging in serious deba…
I would like to thank the President for convening today’s plenary meeting to discuss Security Council reform. Japan highly appreciates his identification of United Nations reform and revitalization as one of the four priority areas of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly. As he pointed ou…
I would first like to thank the President of the Security Council for the month of November, Ambassador José Filipe Moraes Cabral, for his presentation of the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly (A/66/2). I also wish to thank Ambassador Peter Wittig and the German delegatio…
I will be very brief. Whatever allegations the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea made in his second exercise of the right of reply, my delegation would like very much to remind the international community that it was the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that continued …
I would like to exercise the right of reply to the allegations against Japan made by the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at this meeting. Let me set the record straight on the following three points.
First of all, the Japanese Government’s adherence to the three non-nucl…
Let me begin by thanking the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Yukiya Amano, for presenting the annual report (see A/66/95) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March w…
I would like first of all to thank Mr. Al-Nasser, President of the General Assembly, for his initiative in convening this meeting on the launch of the International Year of Cooperatives. I would also like to thank both Dame Pauline Green
and Mr. Gordon Brown for their respective inspiring statement…
I thank the Secretary- General, the Executive Director of UN-Women and the President of the Economic and Social Council for their insightful briefings. We also welcome the representative of civil society, and thank her for her statement.
Japan welcomes the report of the Secretary- General (S/2011/5…
It is my great pleasure and honour, on behalf of the Government of Japan, to address the General Assembly under the presidency of His Excellency Ambassador Al-Nasser. I would like to express my gratitude to President Hisashi Owada for his in-depth report summarizing the current situation of the Inte…
I would like to thank President Sang-Hyun Song for his in-depth report on the most recent work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (see A/66/309). Japan attaches great importance to the rule of law in the international community. In that regard, we have been actively assisting the work of the …
At the outset, I would like to commend the United Kingdom for promoting this year’s draft resolution (A/66/L.3) on the Olympic Truce. Such resolutions have become a valued tradition of the General Assembly. As a sponsor, Japan strongly supports the spirit of the draft resolution, as expressed in its…
First of all, I would like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of duties as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. Japan highly respects your strong leadership during the current session and reaffirms its commitment to contribute to your work. Let me also c…
I would like to thank Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, for his presence here today and for his statement. I would also like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Staffan de Mistura for his very comprehensive and informative briefing. And I would lik…
I would like to begin by congratulating Mr. Al-Nasser on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- sixth session. I express my gratitude to Mr. Joseph Deiss for his devoted efforts during his tenure as President of the Assembly at the sixty-fifth session. I would also li…
I thank the President of the Human Rights Council. Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Permanent Representative of Uruguay in Geneva, for the presentation of her reports (A/66/53 and A/66/53/Add.1) today, both to the Third Committee and the General Assembly, and for her dedicated work in the Council.
The int…
I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Joseph Deiss, for his initiative in convening this meeting.
At the outset, I would like to express Japan’s deepest condolences and sympathy to the Government and people of Norway, as well as to the families of the victims of Friday’s …
