Today it is my honour to take the floor on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
Twenty-five years have gone by since the Chernobyl tragedy, and it remains particularly present in our memories, both individual and collective. The recent, tragic events in Fukushima have once agai…
As a sponsor of resolution 65/265, we welcome the Assembly’s consensus decision to suspend Libya’s membership rights in the Human Rights Council. The reports from
Libya continue to be alarming, and include widespread incidences of extrajudicial killings and arbitrary detentions and arrests, as well…
We thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, and would like to encourage her to continue her visits to countries that experience conflict-related sexual violence and to brief the Council on those visits in open meetings.
Liechtenstein co-sponsored resolution 1960 (2010) because it…
The coordination of humanitarian assistance is a core activity of the United Nations. Let me therefore join others in reiterating our full support for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the work of the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Under-Secretary- General Valerie Amo…
I would like to thank the President of the Human Rights Council for his report to the General Assembly, which provides a comprehensive overview of the work of the Council during the last cycle with the addition of the recent September session (A/65/53). We are grateful for this opportunity to reflec…
I would like to thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Sang Hyun Song, for presenting the report of the Court (see A/65/313) today, which illustrates the impressive range of activities in which the Court has been engaged over the past year. We are satisfied to see yet a…
I am happy to take this opportunity to discuss the report of the Economic and Social Council (A/65/3), as my country’s first tenure on the Council is coming to an end, later this year.
During our membership we have experienced the Council as a forum of substantive discussion where important governa…
It is a great honour for me to speak to the Assembly today, 20 years after the admission of Liechtenstein to the United Nations. Membership of the United Nations is one of the cornerstones of our foreign policy and the central platform for global diplomatic contacts. A strong United Nations, with a …
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the work of the Organization (A/65/1). The past session of the General Assembly brought some important breakthroughs in the United Nations reform agenda. The creation of UN Women in particular was a major contribution to a more coherent …
My delegation voted in favour of the resolution 64/292 because we agree with the central and general statement that the
right to water is a human right that is essential to the full enjoyment of life and all human rights. We do, however, regret that a vote had to be taken on this resolution, and we…
Liechtenstein is fully committed to combating transnational organized crime and considers the multilateral framework of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime — the Palermo Convention — the best forum to do so. We are pleased to see that that milestone agreement now has …
At the outset, we would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (A/64/735), which provides a useful update on developments in the global response to HIV/AIDS, especially in view of the upcoming Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit.
The fight against the HIV epidemic remains one of th…
I have the honour to speak today, during the first part of my intervention, on behalf of the group of five small
countries (S-5). The other members of the group — Costa Rica, Jordan, Singapore and Switzerland — will also participate in this debate in their national capacities.
We very much appreci…
In the interests of time, I shall read out a condensed version of the statement that we are circulating in writing.
The Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration have been good tools for us in addressing the different crises that have hit us in the past years. What is needed is the implementatio…
Ten years ago world leaders gathered in New York and agreed on the Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2), one of the noblest efforts ever undertaken in the framework of the United Nations. The world’s leaders promised to spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject a…
I draw the attention of the Council to a fuller version of our statement that has been distributed in the Chamber. I shall limit my comments to the renewal of the sanctions regime against Al-Qaida and the Taliban later this year.
Efforts to improve the effectiveness and perceived legitimacy of this…
There is a strong substantive connection between the two agenda items under consideration today. We thus welcome the joint debate and hope that it will offer guidance to you, Sir, and your team in shaping the future course of action in the Assembly.
The report of the Security Council (A/64/2) is a …
My delegation supports the main thrust of the resolution just adopted. In particular, we endorse the call for independent and credible investigations carried out in accordance with international standards by both parties.
As we expressed in our statement during the debate, we were disappointed by t…
I would like to thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Sang-Hyun Song, for presenting the report of the Court (A/64/356) to the General Assembly and to wish him a very warm welcome to New York.
We are satisfied that the Court has made good progress in its judicial work…
We appreciate this opportunity to address the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48). The substance of the report has been previously discussed, both at the Human Rights Council and in the framework of the last open debate of the Security Council. We wer…
