I thank you, Sir, for presiding over the meeting today and your delegation for organizing this open debate with a focus on post-conflict situations. As a strong supporter of resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008), Liechtenstein agrees with the assessment reflected in the concept paper prepared by y…
It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly, a body that represents the heart of multilateral diplomacy, for the first time tonight. As such, it is called to fulfil the expectations and hopes of peoples and individuals around the world — hopes for peace, hopes for an end to poverty a…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (A/63/812), which provides a useful update on developments in the global response to HIV/AIDS. One year after the
General Assembly’s high-level meeting on progress achieved in realizing the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and th…
We are grateful for this opportunity to comment on the report (A/63/2) of the Security Council before us today. We are also grateful for the efforts made by Viet Nam during its presidency of the Council to produce a report that is more satisfactory. We are aware of the magnitude of the effort requir…
We would like to thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr. Philippe Kirsch, for presenting the report of the ICC (see A/63/323) to the General Assembly.
We are satisfied that the Court has continued to make progress in its judicial work, considering in particular that in th…
We thank Ambassador Uhomoibhi for his excellent presentation of the report of the Human Rights Council (A/63/53 and Add.1). Our thanks go also to Ambassador Doru Costea, who presided over the Council over much of the period covered in the report. We welcome this opportunity to discuss the report in …
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate, and we thank those who have offered briefings this morning. As a delegation that has supported resolution 1325 (2000) in its entirety since it was adopted, we agree that progress towards achieving its major goals has been slow and uneven. That…
Since we gathered here a year ago, the world has experienced many serious challenges. Natural disasters, climate change, violent conflicts, terrorism, human rights violations, rising food and energy prices and financial turmoil have affected the lives of people worldwide. Dealing with crisis after c…
We welcome this opportunity to discuss the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the excellent report of the Secretary-General (A/63/677). We would like to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General and his Special Adviser, Edward Luck, for their commitment to and outstanding work on this topic…
At the outset, I would like to reiterate Liechtenstein’s strong condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes. We are fully committed to international cooperation in the fight against terrorism, and in particular to the leadi…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate and for the personal efforts of Secretary Rice on the issue of women and peace and security, in particular in the framework of the Women Leaders’ Working Group.
We appreciate the careful preparation of today’s meeting, including the early …
For more than 25 years, HIV/AIDS has caused immense human suffering throughout the world and has had devastating consequences for development. In 2001, we equipped ourselves with an effective tool to combat the AIDS pandemic both nationally and in our multilateral efforts. The greatest asset of the …
The increasing victimization of civilians in armed conflict is a sad and well-documented fact. While civilian populations have always suffered disproportionately from the consequences of armed conflict, modern warfare and the changed nature of armed conflicts have exacerbated their situation.
The S…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for his initiative to convene this important thematic debate, which deals with three core questions for development, that is, poverty, health and education. These issues cover the concerns of six out of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and,…
We value this opportunity to offer our view on climate change once again and are grateful for the high-quality and stimulating discussions of the day before yesterday in the framework of the panels organized by you, Mr. President.
Clearly, climate change is an exemplary challenge for global coopera…
The special session on children in May 2002 was a historic occasion. The Assembly gathered at the highest level to reappraise the situation of children and speed up progress towards a world truly fit for children. Today, it is fair to say that some progress has been achieved to reach the goals and t…
Mr. President, the topic under consideration today must be a priority issue for any President of the General Assembly. Strengthening the body over which you preside is both an obvious goal and a political necessity.
There is no doubt that the Assembly has, for a while now, not been playing the role…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of Switzerland and my own country, Liechtenstein.
At the outset, I thank the Chairpersons of the various Committees that have briefed the Council on their work this morning. I would also like to take this
opportunity to reiterate our commitment to international…
Thank you very much, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I also thank the current President of the Security Council for introducing the Council’s report (A/62/2) this morning.
The annual report of the Security Council, in its very first sentence, indicates an increase in the workload of the …
Resolution 60/251 created the Human Rights Council as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly. Last year, this Assembly decided to allocate this agenda item to both the plenary and the Third Committee, with the understanding that the Third Committee would take up all the recommendations of the Cou…
