Allow me to begin by commending you, Mr. President, on your sterling leadership of the presidency of the Council for this month, and your clear sense of responsibility, including your presence here at this hour. Allow me to also commend you for the initiative to hold this debate on women and peace a…
The Government of Mexico voted in favour of resolution 67/19. However, we would like to explain our position on that subject.
Mexico reiterates its full and unconditional support for resolution 181 (II), in which the international community decided to establish two States, an Arab State and a Jewis…
I would like to thank the President for convening this joint debate on the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly and on Security Council reform.
Similarly, I wish to thank the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of India, for introducing the annua…
In 2005, the international community recognized the need to raise the level of treatment of human rights in our Organization by establishing a new body for strengthening the work of the United Nations in the promotion and protection of human rights around the world. Since then, the Human Rights Coun…
The delegation of Mexico would like to express its deep appreciation to the International Court of Justice for the hard work accomplished this year. We also thank the Court’s President, Judge Peter Tomka, who a few days ago (see A/67/PV.29) presented a report (A/67/4) that gives a clear picture of t…
Mexico thanks the President of the International Criminal Court for his presentation of its annual report (see A/67/308). We also welcome Ms. Fatou Bensouda, the Prosecutor of the Court, and wish her every success in her work. One hundred and twenty-one States have joined forces towards their shared…
I would first express our gratitude for the leadership of the President of the Economic and Social Council and of the representatives of Egypt, Indonesia and Spain in conducting the work of the Council in 2012.
A coordinated follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences in the e…
I first wish to thank the delegation of Guatemala for having organized the debate on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Allow me to express my thanks to Guatemala for presiding over the Security Council this month.
I also wish to acknowledge the presence of the Special Re…
At the outset, allow me to pay tribute to Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski, Permanent Representative of Canada, for having facilitated the draft resolution we will be adopting during this review (A/66/L.53).
Mexico attaches great importance to the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy an…
I am pleased to take the floor today, one year after the adoption of the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (resolution 65/277, annex) during the High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, held from 8 to 11 June 2011. I would like to express my gratitude t…
Mexico appreciates the opportunity to address the General Assembly at this meeting devoted to the question of interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This allows us to acknowledge parliamentary diplomacy and its contribution to our Organi…
My delegation merely wishes to add its voice to those of other delegations that have expressed the sentiment that our decision today, which sought to allow civil society organizations to participate appropriately in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, should not in any way be s…
I welcome this opportunity to address the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session in order to express Mexico’s support for the draft resolution (A/66/L.43) on the global road safety crisis, introduced by the Russian Federation. This is an issue to which Mexico has attached the highest priority f…
Mexico abstained in the voting on resolution 66/254 because we believe that, although it establishes a process of discussion on how we can strengthen the human rights treaty body system, we nevertheless feel that some aspects of the text should have been
revised to stipulate more clearly the parame…
My delegation appreciates the convening of this very important meeting in response to the appeal of the Human Rights Council to the principal organs of the Organization to consider the report of the independent international commission of inquiry established by the Council to investigate all alleged…
Mexico commends the delegation of South Africa for convening this important and timely debate. We also thank the Secretary-General for presenting his report (S/2011/634*), as well as for his personal interest in the matter we are debating.
Mexico recognizes the importance that the concept of the ru…
I have the honour today to introduce to the General Assembly the reports of the Fifth Committee, which contains recommendations on items that required action during the main part of the sixty-sixth session.
The Fifth Committee met from 3 October to 23 December and held plenary meetings and more tha…
I am pleased, Sir, to see you presiding over this meeting.
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on global economic governance and development (A/66/506*), which provides the basis for our debate on this important agenda item. Mexico concurs with the report’s obs…
At the outset, I would like to express our thanks for the convening of the fifth High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. Mexico believes that the financing for development agenda is a milestone in the work of the Organization, since it identifies all the sources of financing that are avail…
I would like, first of all, to express my delegation’s sincere thanks and congratulations to Ambassador Henrique Valle for having yet again done an excellent job as coordinator of the draft resolution on oceans and the law of the sea (A/66/L.21) and for having guided the consultations to a satisfact…
