I should like to renew the warm congratulations of the Nigerian delegation and
reassure you, Sir, of our support and cooperation. May I also express our appreciation to the current President of the Security Council, Ambassador Martin Andjaba of Namibia, for his important statement introducing the c…
I am pleased to address the General Assembly on agenda item 33 entitled “Culture of Peace”. The Nigerian delegation wishes to thank previous speakers for their contributions, which no doubt provide a better understanding of the challenges we must face globally in promoting a culture of peace. May I …
Please allow me to share with Mr. Holkeri the joy of his election to the presidency of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. He can rest assured of Nigeria’s support and cooperation. May I also express the same sentiment on behalf of the Group of 77. To his predecessor and my colleague, H…
The Millennium Assembly presents Member States with an auspicious moment to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, a problem which, considering all its dimensions, must constitute the most immediate challenge to humanity and to the security and stability of our world. Today, HIV/AIDS has been established as…
Speaking on behalf of the Nigerian delegation and of the Group of 77, I wish to express our sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to congratulate you and your team on your outstanding work on the draft United Nations Millennium Declaration, a text of which we can all be proud and which und…
My intervention will be brief. I just want to make a simple request. Since this is an important resolution that we have just adopted with many oral revisions, can I request the Secretariat to ensure that we have clean copies of it by the end of the day? That is a request I want to address to the Sec…
I want to start with the issue of paragraph 11, which includes the list of intergovernmental organizations and others who can address the plenary. At the end, what was decided in our consultations at the last meeting was that all those who are making requests should be listed for all of us to see, a…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, Nigeria would like to convey its appreciation for the convening of this meeting on yet another sad occasion, in connection with the cyclone that struck Madagascar, a developing State Member of this Organization. Not very long ago, we gathered to express our so…
Concerning our deliberations on the resolution that has just been adopted, we want to have it on record that the following slight amendment would have been added to the text. After the last preambular paragraph, would have been added:
“Taking note further of the Economic and Social Council presiden…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, we commend the initiative to convene this meeting to discuss the tragic situation in Mozambique, which resulted from the unprecedented floods that have been unleashed on that country and some of its neighbours since February. We should also like to take this o…
My delegation appreciates this opportunity to contribute to the discussion of agenda item 46, “Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa”. Peace is at the centre of development. Conflicts not only wreak havoc on the physical infrastructure of States …
I wish to express the gratitude of the Nigerian delegation to the Secretary- General for his report on the situation in the Middle East. The crisis in that area has been the most protracted and difficult conflict facing the international community for a very long time. Happily, significant progress …
I wish to express the appreciation of the Nigerian delegation to the Secretary- General for his comprehensive and insightful report on this agenda item. The zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic has been recognized by the international community as a valuable mechanism that provides th…
My delegation would like to associate itself with the expressions of condolences to the family of Ambassador Fanfani, as well as to the Government and the people of Italy.
The preamble to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea rightly recognizes the desirability of establishing through…
The Nigerian delegation commends the Secretary-General for his comprehensive and excellent reports on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations. The reports bring out clearly both the increasing urgency and complexity in the coordinati…
On behalf of the democratically elected Government and the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I would like to express my appreciation to the Secretary-General for his comprehensive and succinct report on cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). I wish a…
I wish first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I have no doubt that the deliberations and decisions of the Council under your able leadership will serve the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
This is a particularly important o…
It is an honour and, indeed, a delight for me to echo the very warm congratulations which my President extended to Mr. Gurirab, the President of the General Assembly, when he addressed the Assembly last month. Mr. Gurirab’s outstanding leadership is already radiating through the deliberations of the…
Although the head of the Nigerian delegation to the General Assembly at its current session, His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo, has had the opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, I cannot pass up this uniqu…
The Nigerian delegation listened attentively to the comments made by our brother, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cameroon, regarding their maritime border dispute with Nigeria.
Very often silence can be mistaken for acquiescence, hence this response. We are surprised indeed that the matter, wh…
