The adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 47/62 on the question of equitable representation on and increase of the membership of the Security Council reflects the extent of the determination of the Members of the United Nations to put an end to the unfair composition of the Security Council…
On behalf of my country and in my own behalf, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. The fact that you belong to our beloved continent, coming as you do from a country bound with my own by …
Let me begin, Sir, by saying how pleased I am to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council for this month, which coincides with the holy month of Ramadan. It is a time when the holy places are filled and Muslims - their faces glowing with a sense of trust and serenity - seek, through p…
Today we celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly at its third session. On this day in 1948, this Declaration came into being when the international community realized that disregard and lack of respect for human rights led t…
Following the end of the cold war, the world has witnessed numerous changes. Although the results of such changes have not taken final form yet it is quite certain that a new reality does exist and that that new reality has taken the shape of a much enlarged United Nations whose membership has risen…
At a time when the General Assembly intends to approve the first report of the Credentials Committee, document A/48/512, the approval of my delegation of this report does not mean at all recognition of the credential papers of Israel. Despite the latest developments on the question of Palestine we d…
The areas which at one time or another were theatres of military operations and in whose soil large numbers of land-mines were planted have continued to be a grave source of fear and anxiety. On the one hand, this existence of land-mines continues to impede economic development and obstruct every ef…
On behalf of my delegation,
May I also take this opportunity to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for his dedication to the United Nations and for his efforts aimed at reforming the Organization at this critical juncture.
I should like also to welcome th…
The problem of apartheid emerged clearly in 1948 with the coming to power in South Africa ofthe National Party. From that date onwards, that party started to impose the will of the white inhabitants on the country. It enacted the unjust laws of the apartheid sys- tem, depriving the black African cit…
My delegation supports the motion made by the representative of Democratic Yemen con- cerning the rejection of the amendment proposed by the representative of Belgium.
44. I believe that this proposed addition is not logical and not acceptable. It is not logical because it calls for elections to be…
I am prompted to speak today on the question under consideration in order to reaffirm the following points whichthe representativeofthe Social- ist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya has already made in the discussion of the first report of the Credentials Committee at this session [34th meeting]. 2. F…
Now that the General Assembly has adopted the draft resolutions cOdcerning the question of Namibia, it gives me pleasure to express my delegation's satisfaction with the results of that voting, which show that the struggle of the Namibian people enjoys increasing support from the international commu…
The delegation of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya did not participate in the voting on draft resolution A/37/L.45/Rev.1. This position stems from our firm support for the inalien- able rights of the Palestinian people.·
67. We feel that the draft resolution does not ensure all the rights of the Palestin…
The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya reaffirms its support of the indepen- dence, sovereignty and non-alignment of Afghanistan, as well as the preservation of its Islamic character. We have officially declared this in all international forums on many occasions. I should like to recall the s…
At the outset, Sir, I wish to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly of the thirty-seventh session. My delegation is pleased to see you direct the pro- ceedings of the General Assembly, because you represent a friendly country with which my country maintains very clos…
I would not have wished to take up the time of the General Assembly, since it is already late, but I should like to exercise my right of reply in response to the tendentious allegations made by the representative of the Zionist entity.
380. That representative, as is his custom, diverted at- tentio…
The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya voted in favour of draft resolution AJ36/L.59 and Add.l. The reso- lution contains very positive paragraphs, but that does not in any way mean that we agree with all the resolutions adopted by the United Nations-for example Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (…
In her statement this morning [96th meeting] the United States representative referred to my country. She accused us of engaging in acts of ter- rorism and destruction beyond our borders. While cate- gorically denying those groundless claims and allegations, I should like to review briefly the acts …
A similar proposal was submitted two years ago by the delegation of Finland with regard to a draft resolution that was submitted by Guinea and my country concerning the review of the right of veto.
193. The argument on which the proposal was based at that time was that it amounted to reviewing the …
First of all, as we resume consid- eration of the question of Palestine at this session, I am happy to express, on behalf of my delegation, our grati- tude to the members of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for the efforts they have made in acquiting …
