In the 2005 World Summit Outcome, Member States recognized that each State has the responsibility to protect its populations from atrocity crimes — namely, genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Together with the subsequent establishment of the Office on Genocide Prevent…
Since the first cases of AIDS were reported over 40 years ago, the world has made significant progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Not only did the roll-out of HIV treatment globally averted an estimated 16.5 million AIDS-related deaths between 2001 and 2020, the latest data from the Joint Un…
Namibia aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Rwanda on behalf of the Group of African States (see A/77/PV.48). I add the following remarks in my national capacity.
Namibia is proud to join in the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the United Na…
At the outset, allow me to thank His Excellency Mr. Cheikh Niang, Permanent Representative of Senegal, for introducing draft resolutions A/77/L.23, A/77/L.24, A/77/L.25, A/77/L.26 and the annual report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (A/77/35).
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I thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important debate to consider the annual report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
I wish to express my delegation’s sincere appreciation to the Director General, Mr. Rafael Grossi, for the IAEA’s 2021 report (A/77/308 a…
Allow me, at the outset, to express my appreciation to the President for convening the twenty-sixth plenary meeting, on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. I join other colleagues before me in welcoming Foreign …
I congratulate all the new members recently elected to serve on the Human Rights Council and wish them great success in serving the protection and promotion of human rights for everyone, everywhere. I also warmly congratulate His Excellency Mr. Volker Türk in his new role as United Nations High Comm…
Namibia congratulates the Republic of Gabon on using its presidency of the Security Council to highlight the important nexus between climate and security.
Climate change effects everyone, everywhere. Our world is on fire. We see that in African countries, where we are already experiencing an increa…
I thank you, Sir, for hosting this high-level event, which coincides with the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the transformation of the Organization of African Unity into the African Union (AU). Allow me to also extend my gratitude to the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, and th…
I thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important meeting.
In the 2005 World Summit Outcome document, Member States recognized that every State had the responsibility to protect its populations from atrocity crimes, namely, genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of African States.
The African Group takes note of the report of the Secretary-General (A/76/783) entitled “Tackling inequalities to end the AIDS pandemic” and the recommendations contained therein.
We are gathered here today to un…
In Namibia’s capacity as a member of the African Union Committee of 10 on the Reform of the United Nations Security Council, I have the honour to deliver this explanation of vote after the voting on behalf of the States members of the African Union, following the General Assembly’s adoption of resol…
Allow me first to thank you personally, Mr. President, and all delegations, for participating actively in the recent special meeting of
the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to observe the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 …
I wish to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to Ambassadors José Alfonso Blanco Conde of the Dominican Republic and Enrique Austria Manalo of the Philippines, as well as their teams, for facilitating the negotiations on the Political Declaration on the Implementation of the United Nations Gl…
My delegation would like to briefly explain its vote regarding the draft amendment A/75/L.124, presented earlier by the United Kingdom. My delegation abstained in the voting, but not because we do not see civil-society participation as necessary and critical. The Namibian Government has consistently…
I would like to join my colleagues in thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this plenary meeting to discuss the draft oral decision on the question of equitable representation on, and increase in, the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Council.
My delegation is…
On the occasion of this historic high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS, in the midst of yet another global health pandemic, I have the distinct responsibility of introducing a pre-recorded video address by the Vice-President of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Mr. Nangolo Mbumba.
My delegation would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for having acted swiftly to convene this plenary on the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine, respectively.
As we speak out against the parlous situation in the Middle East, specifically in the occupied Pa…
I am pleased to deliver this statement on behalf of my fellow facilitator, the representative of Australia, Ambassador Fifield, and, of course, on my own behalf and on behalf of Namibia. It was an honour for us to co-facilitate the modalities resolution for the 2021 high-level meeting on HIV/ AIDS (…
I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to you, Mr. President, and to all delegations for their active participation in the special meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, held in New York on 1 December to observe the International Day o…
