I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February. We are confident that the Council’s business will profit from your wisdom and experience. I also wish to extend Lesotho’s warmest congratulations to your predecessor, Ambassador H…
I would like to begin, Sir, by echoing the expressions of congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December. We feel reassured that the Council will benefit from your well-known diplomatic skills and experience as we today consider a matter of fun…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation for the first annual report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Respons…
Permit me at the outset to extend our warm appreciation to Ambassador Hisashi Owada of Japan, as Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term
Without a vision, any development effort is likely to fail. Through the mid-term review of the implementation of…
Mr. President, permit me to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of this august body for the month of October and, in that vein, may I also express our appreciation for the able manner in which your predecessor, Ambassador Cabral of Guinea-Bissau, steered the ship that is this Counc…
I wish to extend my delegation’s sincere congratulations to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. It is with great pleasure that I assure you of Lesotho’s support and cooperation as you conduct the deliberations of this body. Let me also tak…
In the early morning hours of Monday, 15 January this year, His Majesty King Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in the mountains of Lesotho, a terrain that is as forbidding as it is beautiful. His Majesty loved to travel in the countryside and admire the boundless beauty that is to be found there.…
Madam President, permit me at the outset to express our deep appreciation for the opportunity afforded us to share our views with the Council on an issue that is very close to the heart of the people and the Government of Lesotho — namely, the situation in our sister country Angola.
We also express…
Mr. President, it affords me great pleasure to congratulate you on your election to direct the work of this historic session of the General Assembly. Such an honour bears testimony to your undoubted dynamism and diplomatic skills, which will in no small measure bear on the outcome of the work of thi…
At the outset, let me congratulate Botswana most warmly upon its assumption of the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of February. Given his well-known and tested leadership qualities and his diplomatic skills and rich experience, we have full confidence that your countr…
On behalf of the people and Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, and on my own behalf, I have the pleasure to extend to you, Sir, our
We are also indebted to our distinguished Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Boutros Boutros- Ghali, whose track record is without parallel.
My delegation is pr…
It is indeed proper and fitting that Mr. Insanally preside over this auspicious occasion. His great country, Guyana, has always been at the forefront of the international community’s struggle to eliminate apartheid in South Africa. Lesotho is happy to see him presiding as we all warmly welcome the n…
If the end of the cold war is seen as a result of fundamental global changes, new thinking and innovation are necessary to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead. Unfortunately, there are those in South Africa who believe that to meet the challenges means turning back the hands of time, and tha…
On behalf of the Lesotho delegation and on my own behalf, I wish to congratulate Ambassador Insanally on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. His election is a well-deserved tribute to his great personal qualities and also to the dynamic role that the R…
Mr. President, at the very outset permit me to extend to yoil and to the members of the Assembly fraternal greetings and a message of peace from King Moshoeshoe 11, the Government and the people of Lesotho. We are pleased to congratulate you on your well-deserved unanimous election to the presidency…
It is with great pleasure that I bring to the Assembly the greetings of my head ofState, King Moshoeshoe 11, and of my Prime Minister, Mr. Leabua Jonathan. 2. Permit me, Sir, to congratulate you on your well- deserved election to the presidency of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Y…
I wish to place on record my delegation's reservations on operative paragraph 34 of draft resolution A/361L.23IRev. 1, notwithstanding the positive vote it will cast. These reservations, as in the past, are dictated by considerations of Lesot;o's geographical location vis-a.-vis South Africa.
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The Government of Lesotho welcomes efforts by the international community to dismantle the phenomenon known as apartheid. Lesotho, by virtue of sharing a common border with South Africa where the policy of apartheid is practised, feels and has to grapple with the effects of this policy virtually on …
We have unre- servedly joined in the international condemnation of the policies ofapartheid of the South African Govern- ment. We have done so out of a deep conviction that apartheid is morally indefensible and the most anti- social political' system in the world.
214. We fully understand the impat…
I should like to extend to the President my delegation's sincere congratulations on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the thirty-fifth session of the General Assembly. His experience in world affairs as a diplomat and representative ofhisgreatcountry, the Federal Republic of Germany, a…
