This discussion provides us with a further opportunity to follow up the activities of the Security Council, evaluate its work and consider whether the Council took note of our observations, responded to our proposals and implemented our requests. In its introduction, the report states that the Counc…
I requested the floor to respond to the statements just made by the representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States with regard to the facts, the unquestionable facts, that were contained in the statement made before this Assembly this morning by the head of our delegation with regard to…
Allow me, at the outset, to express to Mr. Udovenko, on behalf of my country’s delegation, our
By the same token, we express our great appreciation to his predecessor, Ambassador Razali Ismail, for the great efficiency with which he conducted the affairs and deliberations of the Assembly at its pre…
The importance which the United Nations attaches to the problem of landmines reveals the seriousness of this problem. Landmines threaten human beings’ health and very existence and post a grave threat to land and peoples.
It is important to point out that the United Nations has taken steps to elimi…
The General Assembly has had an opportunity, at a number of its previous sessions, to look into the question of the use by certain developed countries of coercive economic measures against developing countries in order to discourage such countries from taking certain sovereign decisions or to force …
The United States of America has imposed an economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba for more than 30 years. Since this item was inscribed on the agenda of the General Assembly, the Member States have expressed their positions on it. Many have hoped that the United States would respon…
Whatever may be said about the critical economic situation of African countries and the problems they face, their causes and effects, there is no doubt that we all agree on their seriousness and the need to find the right solutions to them in order to avoid consequences that could jeopardize interna…
Our discussion of the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council comes in the midst of other similar discussions inside and outside this Assembly. The active participation in the debate on this item confirms the fact that this is one of the most im…
Our delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution contained in document A/51/L.9/Rev.1 but I would like to state that if the thirteenth preambular paragraph had been put to a separate vote, our delegation would have voted against that paragraph.
May I at the outset join previous speakers in
Respect for the rules of international law and heeding those rules has been, and continues to be, among the principal commitments of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Proceeding from this, my country has invoked the Court in more than one case and has impleme…
I wish to comment on the statements made by the representatives of the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
We have become accustomed to this kind of talk from the representative of the United States of America. This is not the first time, following a Libyan statement, that we have hear…
It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Mr. Razali Ismail on his election as President of this session of the General Assembly. His assumption of that high post is a tribute to him personally and to his country, Malaysia, with which my country has good relations and close ties enhanced by bonds o…
The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya has always and in all international forums called for the complete elimination of weapons of mass destruction because of their highly destructive power and their effects, which cannot be limited to any place or time.
My country believes that the text presented to us falls…
My delegation voted for draft resolution A/50/L.70, as orally revised. However, it should be understood that this vote does not mean that we recognize the Zionist entity.
The delegation of my country is fully convinced that a true, just, comprehensive and lasting peace can be established only with …
Once again the world is witnessing a horrible massacre being committed by the Israeli aggressors against the Lebanese people. The Israeli navy has imposed a tight blockade against the port of Beirut, while its artillery and air force have been shelling and bombing Lebanese towns and villages, killin…
The Security Council is meeting for the second time today to consider events in the Middle East.
This morning the Council met to consider Israeli practices in the occupied territories, practices that, as is well known, have reached a level of harshness that may destroy the dreams of peace of the mo…
The international meeting held in July 1995 highlighted the extent of the United Nations interest in the problem of mines. It would be remiss of me not to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General for having taken the initiative to convene that conference as part of the overall effort by the Un…
My country has joined the consensus on the final draft of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond. However, we should like here to voice our reservations on paragraphs 56, 57 and 58, which refer to providing reproductive health services for adolescents. Such services, in …
My delegation believes that the measure we are about to take will lead to many mistakes in the voting. We would request that for the sake of clarity the President refer to the number of the draft resolution as it was presented in the First Committee, because the numbers in the first part of the docu…
