The Special Commemorative Meeting of the United Nations held last month constituted an excellent opportunity for us all, the family of the United Nations, to reaffirm our faith in the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of this Organization. In doing so, the peoples of this great family…
It is an honour and a privilege for me to address this body as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of International Youth Year. My delegation attaches great importance to this occasion and we wish, therefore, to express our sincere appreciation and pay homage to all those men and women dedicated to b…
On behalf of my Government and on my own behalf I wish to congratulate Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral upon his unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its fiftieth session. I am particularly gratified that, for the first time since the creation of the United Nations, a son of Portuga…
First of all, I wish to congratulate you most warmly, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month. I have been advised of your excellent qualities of leadership as well as your diplomatic skills. I therefore have no doubt that you will successfully guide o…
My delegation is pleased to speak on the question of the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance.
Humanitarian and disaster relief assistance remains one of the most critical areas in which our Org…
On behalf of my delegation, I wish to thank the General Assembly and the international community at large for their continued assistance to our people. We regard today’s initiative to consider on an urgent basis the issue of emergency assistance to Mozambique as a clear demonstration of internationa…
On behalf of my delegation, I wish to welcome the adoption of the resolution on the financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) covering the period from November 1993 to April 1994.
As on previous similar occasions, today’s decision represents an important step forward in the e…
My delegation is pleased to participate in the discussion of the very important agenda item entitled "Elimination of apartheid and establishment of a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa", which is before the General Assembly today. It is particularly gratifying to note that today, for the…
It is a great honour and privilege for me to participate on behalf of my delegation in the consideration of the report of the Secretary-General (A/48/536) on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations.
My delegation would like to place on record…
The Assembly has just adopted the draft
resolution, entitled "Assistance to Mozambique". I wish, at the outset, to
express my delegation's sincere appreciation to the international community
represented in this body, and especially to all the sponsors of the draft
resolution, for their support a…
My delegation is pleased to participate
once again in the Assembly's deliberations on the issue of apartheid. We have
been doing so because we strongly believe that this constitutes a concrete
contribution to the ongoing collective efforts aimed at assisting the people
of South Africa in their l…
Our Foreign Minister and head of our delegation will have the opportunity to congratulate. you, Sir, on yo~r electi~n to the presidency of the thirty-seventh session of trte General Assembly.
184. The People's Republic of Mozambique has been consistent in its. position on the question of East Timor…
First of all, my delega- tion would like to welcome the delegation of Antigua ,and Barbuda to the Assembly. We feel that their rightful place in this international body is now being occupied by men who, together with all of us, will do their best to find solutions to ihe problems facing the whole of…
It is with dismay that my delegation has once again to participate in yet another discussion of the so-called situation in Afghanistan. 2. It was at the beginning ofthis year that my delega- tion first repudiated the idea of bringing this issue before the General Assembly. For the People's Re- publi…
First ofall, I should like to express, on behalf of the FRELIM04 Party, the Government and the people of the People's Republic of Mozambique, our profound condolences to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the Government and people of the Soviet Union, and in particu…
On taking the floor for the first time in this session of the General Assembly, we respectfully bow in memory of a great statesman and freedom fighter, Mr. Agostinho Neto, President ofthe MPLA 18 Worker's Party and President ofthe People's Republic ofAngola. His highly regarded humanistic nature and…
For two consecutive years we have, through this body, been pleading with France to eliminate the contradictions created by the incomplet~ decolonization of the Comoros-a sovereign Member State of this Organization and a sovereign member of the OAU. Likewise, for two consecutive years, the occupation…
Mr. President, con- sidering that in his statement to this Assembly [17th meeting] my Head of State has conveyed to you the greetings and congratulations of the people and Govern- ment of the People's Republic of Mozambique on your election, I shall simply reaffirm the detemtlin~tion of my delegatio…
1 In addressing this As- sembly for the fust time I should like to acknowledge the honour that this represents for our people. This Assembly embodies the just and profound yearnings of the peoples of the world gathered in the United Nations and is a valuable instrument for surmounting the ills that …
Once again the United Nations is debating the chronic question of apartheid. a question that has for many years been taken up in this forum, where numerous attempts have been made to find a way to put an end to the problem, but so far in vain.
31. My country's stand regarding the notorious policy o…
