Fifty years ago a vision was bravely stated of a world with equal rights for all, free
Fifty years on the world is very different. The family of nations is larger and more diverse. Communications technology means that we live in a world without walls. That brings a profound change in the way our gl…
May I first take this occasion to congratulate Ambassador Diogo Freitas do Amaral of Portugal on his election to the presidency of the Assembly in this important fiftieth anniversary year.
I should also like to offer a special welcome to Palau as the one hundred eighty-fifth Member. Palau’s accessi…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ), my own country.
CANZ pays tribute to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which have made unprecedented contributions to…
New Zealand supports the idea of more public meetings of the Council. We have therefore given public support, in a letter to you, Mr. President, to the French initiative. We have also strongly supported the notion that this issue should be discussed here today. To be blunt, our particular concern in…
The annual draft resolution on this agenda item has traditionally been uncontroversial. It has been an opportunity to recognize and express support for the important and valuable work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Up until very recently this annual draft resolution was consistent…
The Secretary-General was absolutely right when he took the dramatic step at the end of the general debate in October to call attention to the financial crisis facing the Organization. It is right that Member States should now have the opportunity of this special debate to react to the Secretary-Gen…
New Zealand was delighted to join in the consensus adoption of the
In August 1993, in response to the presidential statement of 31 March 1993, adopted under New Zealand’s presidency of the Security Council, the Secretary-General produced a comprehensive report on the security of United Nations oper…
We thank the Minister for External Relations of Angola for his important statement. We also value the presence here today of Ambassador Blondin Beye, the Secretary- General’s Special Representative.
For well over a year the two parties in Angola have been coaxed and cajoled by the Council, and more…
Today we celebrate the beginning of an International Decade with a unique character. This Decade is an opportunity to acknowledge the status of indigenous people in their respective countries. The Decade is directed at making an effective and ongoing contribution towards the solution of the problems…
This year’s debate on the agenda item on the law of the sea is properly an occasion for celebration. This year — some 12 years after the adoption of the draft convention on the law of the sea, itself some 14 years in the making — we can celebrate at last the Convention’s entry into force. Even more
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Let me first congratulate you very warmly, Sir, on assuming the office of President of this Council. Please be assured that the New Zealand delegation stands ready to work with you and assist you in any possible way. In the same spirit, I
Tonight we have witnessed what I think is a very strange spe…
We believe the Security Council has just made two very important decisions about the situation in Rwanda. One was the presidential statement on the security situation in the camps outside Rwanda. The other was the resolution we have just adopted renewing the mandate of the United Nations Assistance …
My Government would like to take this opportunity to express its thanks to the Secretary-General for the diligence with which he has pursued the General Assembly’s mandate to prepare an Agenda for Development. The report which is now before us is the product of a lengthy series of discussions and de…
We remember only too well how difficult it was, back in April this year, in similar circumstances, when the safe area of Gorazde was under attack. At that time, it was not until the tanks were actually in the streets of the city that the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NAT…
We voted in favour of this resolution, but my purpose in speaking is to say that we do have some reservations about certain aspects of it. We believe that this resolution would have benefited from further reflection and further negotiation. We recall that it was made available to Council members as …
For the first time, at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development the international community addressed population growth in the broader context of achieving sustainable development. This is a key departure, opening a new path forward into the twenty-first century.
Population is no longer s…
My delegation is very grateful to the delegation of Pakistan for requesting this meeting. It gives the Security Council the opportunity to consider the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the light of General Assembly resolution 49/10, which was adopted by the Assembly last week. In the view of m…
The decision which we have just taken is a very important one. It is also of great significance to Rwanda. But it is of even more fundamental importance to the international community as a whole. It is a decision which the Security Council is taking on behalf of all the Members of the Organization.
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I too should like to begin by joining my delegation’s condolences to those of
For the South Pacific, one of the most important international events of 1994 was the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. New Zealand has a particular interest in this subje…
The decision which the Security Council has just adopted in the presidential statement which you, Madam President, read, to establish a system of institutionalized consultation with troop- contributing countries is, we believe, of historic significance.
For more than a year now New Zealand has been…
