First of all, let me thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this joint debate, which gives Member States an opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to strengthen the United Nations with a view to enhancing its authority, efficiency and capacity to address effectively the full range of global chal…
Kazakhstan wishes to congratulate Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on
his very comprehensive and forward-looking report (see A/65/140). We fully endorse his vision to change the general image of the Agency from that of simply the world’s nuclear w…
It is my honour to speak today on behalf of the member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and my country, the Republic of Kazakhstan, on agenda item…
Let me thank His Excellency Ambassador Sihasak Phuangketkeow, President of the Human Rights Council, for his well- grounded and comprehensive report on human rights issues. My delegation highly appreciates the devoted and substantive work of the Human Rights Council on a broad range of rights issues…
My delegation commends the President for following up on the important High-level Meeting that the Secretary- General convened on 24 September last year on the theme of revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations.
We also thank Pre…
First of all, the delegation of Kazakhstan would like to express its appreciation to President Deiss for the holding of this joint debate on items 14 and 15 of the agenda, “Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations” and “Culture of Peace”.
We also wish to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban K…
At the outset, on behalf of the Republic of Kazakhstan, I wish to express our warm appreciation to Mr. Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on Sport for Development and Peace, and his Office for their record of commendable activities over the past year.
My …
First of all, I would like to offer congratulations on the upcoming sixty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations. For an individual person, 65 is an age when life experience turns into wisdom. As the great Goethe once said, it is our experience that teaches us to truly appreciate life. Today, the U…
First, the delegation of Kazakhstan would like to thank the Secretary-General for presenting his comprehensive report on the work of the Organization (A/65/1). In our opinion, it is a good reflection of every aspect of the Organization’s hard work.
Over the past year, the world has moved from a glo…
This summit takes on particular significance as part of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the General Assembly 10 years ago, since people throughout the world expect decisions and outcomes from it that live up to their hopes for peace, security, development and pro…
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this very important and extremely timely meeting. It is indeed extremely important and timely to discuss all issues stemming from transnational organized crime in a thorough manner.
Transnational organized crime…
We are all gathered here today at the United Nations to pay tribute to the memory of the heroes and victims of the Second World War. The war taught humankind the harsh lesson that we cannot accept the deaths and suffering of millions of individuals. No single idea, concept or political philosophy ca…
As speakers before me have emphasized, we are meeting at an important
juncture on the road to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit to be held in September. We strongly believe that this High-Level Dialogue is an important occasion to fully utilize the convening power of the United Nations…
First of all, the delegation of Kazakhstan would like to thank the President for continuing the discussion of the revitalization of the General Assembly within the framework of the Assembly’s sixty-fourth session.
I would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the Co-Chairs of the Working Gr…
First, allow me to note the importance of this event marking the end of the International Year of Human Rights Learning, which has sought to promote the expansion of efforts to teach and advocate for human rights.
Sixty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the issu…
First of all, the delegation of Kazakhstan would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing these joint debates to discuss important issues such as the report of the Security Council (A/64/2) and the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council…
As we gather today to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the relevance and topicality of that Conference seem as evident as when the States Members of the United Nations made their unanimous pledge to progress on population, de…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Treki on his election to the high post of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and wish him every success as he presides over the session.
Eight years ago, on 11 September, Ms. Zhannetta Tsoy, a citizen of Kazakhstan, having k…
The delegation of Kazakhstan advocated against putting resolution 63/307 to the vote by voting in favour of the no-action motion. Although Kazakhstan had no objection in principle to the consideration of the resolution on the status of temporarily displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgi…
At the outset, I wish to thank the Secretary-General and his staff for preparing an unprecedented report on implementing the responsibility to protect (R2P) (A/63/677). These General Assembly plenary meetings and this thematic debate on R2P are historic, as Member States, reaffirming their earlier c…
