The Secretary-General, in his address to the General Assembly, stressed the ever-increasing importance of multilateralism and the responsibility of Member States of the United Nations to uphold the principles embodied in the Charter of our Organization. For that, and for his reports on the implement…
I convey warm congratulations to Mr. Jan Kavan on his unanimous election as President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. I am confident that, given his vast experience and diplomatic skills, he will be able to steer this session to a successful conclusion. In the same vein, our co…
The sub-agenda items that we are addressing under agenda item 21 are of immense value and importance to the full achievement of the goals of the United Nations and the organizations in question. Through cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations, better understanding…
The common view, reflected in the report of the Secretary-General on the unilateral economic, financial and commercial embargo against Cuba, is that the embargo must be lifted. The Charter of the United Nations is also clear with respect to the sovereignty of all States, big and small.
The people o…
The Millennium Summit did not address new problems or reveal new challenges hitherto unknown to mankind. What it did, however, was this: world leaders set goals to make the world better by, inter alia, removing the political and economic barriers that divide our world into a world of
the haves and …
Madam President, this is the third time in less than two weeks under your presidency that an African issue has been discussed by the Security Council. It is our fervent hope and expectation that when the Council next meets, it will be to consider tangible progress on any of the issues discussed in t…
The fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly is no ordinary one. We are meeting in the aftermath of the despicable terrorist attacks on New York, the seat of the United Nations, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Once again, we express our deep condolences to the Government and the people of the…
At the outset, let me express my delegation’s appreciation to the Secretary- General for his note contained in document A/56/270. While the final review of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s will be conducted in the year 2002, my delegation…
Two weeks ago the General Assembly discussed the report of the Security Council. A significant number of Member States took part in that debate, which, in the view of my delegation, set the stage for the item before us today. I say this because the imperfections and shortcomings in the report of the…
On behalf of my delegation, I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I wish also to thank Ambassador Levitte of France for the effective way in which he guided the work of the Council last month. Our thanks and appreciati…
The Secretary- General’s report on the item under discussion is entitled “International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World”. This, indeed, is a fitting title, for it so ably encapsulates our common yearning for peace. The children of the world deserve no les…
Once again, the report of the Security Council is before the General Assembly, so that the members of this body can express their views on the responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security. This report, among other things, enables Member States to exam…
At the outset, I wish to reiterate the sentiments of deepest sympathy and condolences conveyed by President Sam Nujoma, and indeed by the Government and the people of Namibia, to our host country, the United States of America, and in particular to all the families of the victims of the despicable te…
Allow me at the outset to extend to Mr. Han our warm congratulations on his assumption of the presidency of the fifty-sixth session
of the General Assembly. I would like to assure him of the full cooperation and support of the Namibian delegation.
It is significant that this body is considering th…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for arranging this important meeting. I wish also to thank Mr. Annabi for the comprehensive briefing that he gave this morning. It was clear from the briefing that good progress has been made on a number of fronts in the peace process in the Democratic Republic of…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. It is once again testimony to the seriousness with which your delegation views the situation in the Great Lakes region and particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We wish to thank the Secretary-General for his pr…
I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and I wish to commend Ambassador Ben Mustapha of Tunisia for the able manner in which he presided over the work of the Council in February.
I further wish to thank you and your delegation fo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to discuss the final report of the Monitoring Mechanism on Angola
Sanctions. I wish to acknowledge the presence of Angola’s Minister of External Relations, Mr. João Bernardo de Miranda.
I wish also to thank Ambassador Larraín and his team for …
We too are happy to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Honourable Mr. Goran Svilanovic, to this meeting and to thank him warmly for his clear and informative statement. I would also like to acknowledge Mr. Annabi and to thank him for his update on the…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Ukraine.
On 7 October, the Security Council adopted resolution 1322 (2000), which, inter alia, condemned the violence, especially the exces…
