The Philippines, as the eleventh State to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, welcomes the entry into force of the Convention on 16 November 1994, in accordance with its article 308. When we deposited our instrument of ratification on 8 May 1984 the Philippines became the sec…
The issue of Palestine is the longest-standing issue in the annals of the United Nations. So much blood and tears have been shed to resolve it. It was even thought at one point or another that the world had come close to the brink of thermonuclear confrontation.
The Philippines therefore received w…
I wish to join other delegations in thanking the Secretary-General for the timely presentation of his report (A/48/264) on this agenda item, prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 47/62.
The Philippines believes the time has come for serious reflection and debate on the related issues …
My delegation wishes to explain its vote on draft resolution A/48/L.13 and Corr.1.
The Philippines supports the programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Hence, it not only …
At the outset, my delegation wishes to thank the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Brazil, for introducing the Council’s report. We note the efforts of the Council to improve the provision of information on the Council’s activities and decisions to all Member States,…
I am privileged to speak at the special high-level meetings of the General Assembly on a subject of grave concern to the world.
Mankind has been troubled by various scourges that have taken their toll in human life and suffering, bringing disease, economic deprivation and social dislocation to hapl…
At the outset, I would like to join previous speakers in extending to Ambassador Insanally our cordial felicitations on his election as President of the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly.
The Philippines takes pride in being a founding Member of the United Nations, and our Government, un…
I am most pleased to convey to Ambassador Insanally my congratulations and those of my delegation on his election as President of General Assembly at this session. At the same time, I wish to express our sincere appreciation to Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria for guiding with skill and dedication the w…
My delegation welcomes the Secretary-General’s report on the work of the Organization (A/48/1). It is not only substantive, thorough and comprehensive, but also thought-provoking. I should like to comment on a few of the issues raised in the report.
First of all, we share the Secretary-General’s vi…
Mr. President, thank you for the
opportunity to address this special meeting of the General Assembly at its
forty-seventh session marking the conclusion of the United Nations Decade of
Disabled Persons. It gives me great pleasure to report to the Assembly the
Philippines response to the challeng…
We have just witnessed a ,solemn and momentous event. We have just marked a milestone in the history of the United Nations with the swearing-in of the fifth Secretary-General of the Organ- ization.
39. On behalf of the group of Asian States. allow me to congratulate Mr. Perez de Cuellar of Peru as …
I am very pleased and honoured to address the General Assembly on a matter of the utmost importance for the Philippines, and indeed for the entire global community.
The world’s oceans and bodies of water are integral to our lives and to our planet. We draw food and derive livelihoods from those sou…
Be- cause the subject matter we are now d~bating has repeatedly been'discussed at length in the Assembly, I shall be very brief Among the first acts of this body immediately after opening its session last September was the creation of a committee that would look into the credentials of the delegatio…
The Philippine delega- tion wishes to make an observation on the resolution just adopted concerning co-operation between the United Na- tions and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
51. Since its inception in 1969 the Islamic Conference has dedicated itself to parallel efforts in the furthe…
My delegation voted in favour of draft resolution A/36/L.59 and Add.1 as a whole. However. had there been separate votes on oper- ative paragraphs 5, 12 and 13, the Philippines would have expressed reservations on them.
My delegation voted in favour of draft resolution A/36/L.42 and Add. I. However, if there had been a separate vote on the sixth preambular paragraph, we would have expressed reservations on it.
Once again the General Assembly is debating the question of Namibia. In truth, the time for debate has long since passed. For the question of Namibia has been dealt with many times in the past, in terms that are clear and unequivocal. The answer has been given by the Assembly; the answer has been co…
A few weeks hence our observance of the International Year of Disabled Per- sons will be history, and we shall turn our attention to a new agenda. It is entirely in the nature of the work of the Organization that its focus of concern should change peri- odically, for truly the United Nations is a ho…
Mr. President, first of all, I should like to add the sincere congratulations ef President Marcos and my own to those which the Foreign Minister of the Philippines has alrendy extended on your election to the high office of the presidency of the thirty- sixth session of the General Assembly. You do …
Today we begin consid- eration of item 22 of the agenda on the situation in Kam- puchea. I have just returned from an official visit to London and Paris, but I made it a point to come back to the General Assembly because I consider this a qu~stion of vital importance to our region, South-East Asia. …
