Allow me at the outset, Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, to congratulate you and your fraternal country, the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. We are confident that your experience and knowledge of the role an…
I have the honour to convey the regards of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman, and his best wishes and appreciation for the efforts to make this session a success.
I am quite hopeful that this session will yield a great deal of understanding on various issues of common interest that shall e…
Five years ago, during the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, I stood before this Assembly to introduce resolution 57/309 on the global road safety crisis. It was a very modest resolution; all it asked was a report on the global road safety crisis from the Secretary-General for considera…
At the outset, I wish to convey to all representatives the greetings of the Government and the people of the Sultanate of Oman, who welcome the convening of this international meeting to evaluate and improve the action of States and to renew the commitments undertaken at the local and international …
At the outset, it gives me pleasure to extend to the President and his friendly country, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, my country’s warmest congratulations on Mr. Kerim’s assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. We are confident that his vast dip…
My delegation abstained in the voting on draft resolution I, contained in document A/61/415, “Question of Western Sahara”. My Government took that position because the two parties were not able to reach agreement on a text. We would like to state for the record that Security Council resolution 1495 …
On behalf of the delegation of Oman, it gives me pleasure to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to Ambassador Paul Badji, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, on the Committee’s comprehensive report contained in document A/61/35. I c…
It gives me great pleasure, Madam, to extend my warmest congratulations to you and your country, the Kingdom of Bahrain, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. I am fully confident that your vast experience will guide the work of the Assembly to a su…
Permit me at the outset, on behalf of the Sultanate of Oman, to thank the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, for his report on international migration and development (A/60/871), which serves as an important working paper for this High-level Dialogue. It raises a number of issues and sets out guidelines…
Since our discussion on road safety in this very Hall last April 2004, another 1.2 million people have been killed on our roads worldwide, and another 20 to 50 million have been injured or disabled. These are startling figures. Yet, they have not made headlines like, say, a plane crash would.
The g…
I should like, at the outset, to extend my deep gratitude and appreciation to the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for the comprehensive report of the Committee, contained in document A/59/35, and for his detailed statement concerning the …
On behalf of the Government of the Sultanate of Oman, I am pleased to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of this session. We assure you that we will sincerely cooperate with you in order to contribute to the success of this session and to the realization of the desirable objectives…
Allow me at the outset to express my sincere gratitude to the Secretary-General for his valuable report on the global road safety crisis (A/58/228). The report represents a qualitative breakthrough in our deliberations on this humanitarian crisis, which affects the lives of individuals and communiti…
The General Assembly is for the very first time discussing another rapidly growing epidemic — that of globa road l traffic deaths
and injuries. The Secretary-General’s report (A/58/228) contains very alarming statistics. It was just over a hundred years ago that the first road traffic death occurre…
Allow me, Sir, on behalf of the Sultanate of Oman, to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at this session. We assure you of our readiness to work with you and to contribute sincerely and successfully to the achievement of the noble goals we all seek to accomplish i…
At the outset, my delegation would like to join the Acting President in expressing sincere condolences to the Governments and the peoples of Algeria and Sri Lanka for the tragic loss of life in the flooding in Sri Lanka and the earthquake in Algeria.
As I stand before the Assembly, somewhere in the…
Allow me first of all to thank you, Sir, and the other members of the Security Council for quickly agreeing to the request of the Group of Non-Aligned States to hold this open meeting to study the report presented by the heads of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission …
My delegation has had no difficulties in the past in supporting resolutions on cooperation between the United Nations and the
Council of Europe. Regrettably, a new element — one on the abolition of the death penalty — was introduced in the draft resolution this year. This runs counter to our laws a…
Allow me, first, to extend my congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the Presidency of the Council and to wish you well as you continue to lead the Council in the coming weeks. I would also like to thank Ambassador Belinga-Eboutou of Cameroon for the excellent manner in which h…
It gives me great pleasure to offer, on behalf of the Government of the Sultanate of Oman, our warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its current session. We assure you of our fullest cooperation towards achieving the noble goals and objectives …
