The action that we are taking today on the Secretary-General’s report entitled “Renewing the United Nations: a programme for reform” marks an important step in our collective efforts to inject greater relevance into our Organization. Self-examination and reform are essential elements of an ongoing p…
While my delegation voted in favour of draft resolution A/52/L.13 as a whole, we would like to explain our position on operative paragraph 10.
Pakistan had suggested that if the scope of the work of the Group of Experts needed to be expanded, a fresh mandate should be sought from the General Confer…
The Pakistan delegation would like to convey its appreciation to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his statement this morning on the annual report of the
Pakistan, as one of the founding members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, can take justifiable …
I would first like to convey my delegation’s deep appreciation to President Antonio Cassese for his lucid statement and for preparing a comprehensive report on the performance of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
The International Tribunal has much still to do before it…
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations share a common interest in collective efforts for the realization of the lofty ideals of the United Nations Charter.
Today, the United Nations stands at the crossroads of its history. During the first half century of its existence, the Orga…
On behalf of my delegation, I would like to reaffirm Pakistan’s commitment to the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action adopted at the World Summit for Social Development.
Pakistan is one of those countries that have already started implementation of the Programme…
May I begin with a verse from the Holy Koran:
(spoke in Arabic)
“To each is a goal To which God turns him; Then strive together Towards all that is good. Wheresoever ye are, God will bring you Together. For God Hath power over all things.” (The Holy Koran, II:148)
(spoke in English)
I convey to …
It is our understanding that, in allocating item 62 to the plenary, we are in no way prejudging the mechanism to be set up subsequently for the proper and detailed consideration of the issue. This can be either the plenary itself, a committee of the whole, a working group or the relevant Main Commit…
We meet today to elect our representatives for two vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) in an election that raises more questions than it provides answers.
First, the ACABQ is one of the most important bodies of the United Nations. This standing Comm…
The General Assembly is today reviewing the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in
promoting their shared goals of international peace, security and development.
We note with satisfaction that the United Nat…
We are meeting today at a particularly critical juncture in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the General Assembly last discussed the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina over two years ago, many significant and encouraging developments have taken place.
While important strides have been …
The views of my delegation on the situation in Afghanistan have already been stated in great detail — before the plenary of this Assembly during its general debate in October, before the Security Council, also in October, and at the meeting of regional States and other States with influence in Afgha…
The history of the world is, to a large extent, the history of human migration.
By and large, the motive force behind migration has been the desire of the individual to search for a better life in greater honour, security and decency. In recent times, however, international migration has been put t…
Over the last 50 years, the international community and the United Nations have made efforts to address the situation in the Middle East. The United Nations addressed the central issue of Palestine by recognizing the right to self-determination of the people of Palestine. A number of Security Counci…
The United Nations system is going through severe stresses and strains. This is obviously an unhappy situation and needs to be rectified. The problems besetting the Organization have not emerged abruptly, nor will they vanish overnight. The General Assembly, which is the only democratic voice of the…
We would like to convey our profound appreciation to Judge Antonio Cassese, the President of the International Tribunal, for his outstanding success in assembling and operationalizing the entire normative and logistical infrastructure of the Tribunal in a period of two years. Given the financial con…
We have before us the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, contained in document A/51/48. My delegation agrees with the Ad Hoc Committee’s evaluat…
Much attention was devoted, throughout the fiftieth session of the General Assembly, to the question of the restructuring and reform of the Security Council. Much of that exercise was initiated and conducted partly because it was the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, and many thought that …
Pakistan abstained on the third preambular paragraph, which links cooperation for peaceful uses of nuclear energy with reciprocal commitments to legally binding agreements on nuclear non-proliferation.
Pakistan therefore cannot accept any linkages on this issue.
On behalf of the Pakistan delegation, I would like to convey special appreciation to Mr. Hans Blix, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and to his team for improving the format and content of the report this year. It will doubtless facilitate better understanding of th…
