The Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. Such a fundamental humanitarian principle takes on special meaning on a day such as today, when we observe the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the T…
The resolution we have just adopted urges the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to conduct credible, independent investigations, in line with international standards, on the alleged violations within a time frame of three months. The Republic of Panama has always respected the princ…
My delegation would like to start by expressing its gratitude for the convening of this series of meetings and welcoming the report of the Secretary-General (A/63/677). Ever since the 2005 World Summit, when our heads of State or Government agreed on the principle of the responsibility to protect, t…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting to discuss this important issue.
The delegation of Panama would like to reiterate the statement it delivered this morning, during the Conference on the World Economic and Financial Crisi…
At the outset, I should like to acknowledge the presence of the Secretary-General and the representatives of Israel and Palestine and to thank them for their respective statements.
Panama would like once again to express our profound dismay at the situation to which the population of Gaza is being …
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting. I also thank the Ambassadors of Israel and Palestine for their respective statements. I further thank Special Coordinator Serry for his consistently comprehensive and balanced reports.
Panama has stated on various occasion…
First of all, Sir, allow me to thank you for having convened this important meeting on Somalia and the piracy that affects its coast and international peace and security. For that reason, Panama supported the resolution adopted by the Security Council, while remaining aware of its scope and that the…
Mr. President, first and foremost, I would like to thank you for your presence today in the Security Council and, in turn, would like to thank the Deputy Secretary- General and the Secretary of State of the United States, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Secretary of S…
Allow me, first of all, to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the two International Tribunals for the briefings they gave us this morning.
The work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is at a crucial …
First and foremost, on behalf of Panama, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, and Ambassador Jurica and the delegation of Croatia for providing us this important opportunity to consider and debate on the most effective manner to combat the scourge of terrorism. We welcome the presence of the Secret…
First of all, we appreciate the presence in the Chamber today of Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we thank him for the statement he has just made. We would also like to welcome Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, High Representative and Representative of the Eu…
At the outset, I should like to thank the representative Israel and the observer of Palestine for their statements.
Panama understands that this meeting was convened to highlight the very serious humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip resulting from Israel’s illegal blockade of that part of the o…
Permit me at the outset to echo what the representative of Costa Rica said regarding the paramount importance of the establishment of the International Criminal Court. I should also like to thank Prosecutor Luis Moreno- Ocampo for the report that he has provided us on the progress made in the invest…
More than five years after the start of the conflict in Darfur, we are in a critical situation, with significant progress being made in the political process and the deployment of the hybrid operation. Actions taken by the Sudan, the countries of the subregion and the international community will, t…
Permit me to thank and commend you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on so critical and difficult a situation as that in Somalia and to express our gratitude that it is being held in a public format. We should also like to thank the representatives of the Secretariat for their briefings. We…
First of all, I would like to congratulate the President of Costa Rica on his initiative of putting forward this important subject for discussion today. Panama, a country where people of different races, religions and cultures live together in peace and harmony, cannot but seek the strengthening of …
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing on behalf of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). Through him, I would like also to thank the entire Mission and express the gratitude of Panama for th…
Allow me to express my gratitude for the reports presented this morning by Ambassadors Jurica, Urbina and Grauls on the important work carried out by the Committees they chair.
We would like to express our gratitude for the efforts to achieve the full implementation of resolution 1822 (2008) by the…
At the outset, I would like to thank the President of the Human Rights Council for his introduction of the Council’s report to the General Assembly (A/63/53 and Add.1). We think that it is very important to continue reviewing the performance of the Council within the Assembly. The Charter of this Or…
I thank the delegation of China for convening this important debate. My thanks go also to Ms. Rachel Mayanja, Ms. Inés Alberdi, Ms. Sarah Taylor and Mr. Alain Le Roy for their detailed presentations on the progress made and the challenges facing us in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), on…
