Mr. President, it is with sadness that I join everyone who has spoken before me to express the deepest condolences of the people and the Government of Papua New Guinea on the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, a great friend of the world, including Papua New Guinea. Pope John Paul II also to…
Mr. President, through you, my delegation thanks Ambassador Emyr
Jones Parry, in his capacity as the President of the Security Council for October, for presenting the Council’s report to the General Assembly. I would also take this opportunity to commend Ambassador Wenaweser of Liechtenstein and Am…
My delegation warmly welcomes you to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session and pledges our support. We acknowledge that you are also from our Forum of Small States group and therefore share our common problems and challenges. Please convey my delegation’s commendation to …
Thank you, Mr. President, for your warm welcome. Like previous speakers, I would like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I wish you and your Mission well. Through you, Sir, I would like also to thank and compliment Ambassador Pleuger and …
I wish first to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting and for having allowed it to be an open meeting, thereby enabling others to express their views, particularly our friends from the region. I wish also to thank members for their comments this morning and Mr. Danilo Türk for h…
We thank you, Mr. President, for your dynamic leadership in ensuring that this important debate on the question of United Nations reform remains and continues to be at the forefront of our work and in our minds.
We also thank, through you, Mr. President, the Secretary-General and Deputy-Secretary-G…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would like to preface my comments by saying that I apologize to the President and the Council members for the lateness of the aide-memoire, which I hope was useful, late as it was. We also note that we have sent the members of the Council docum…
At the outset, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for facilitating this open meeting on the issue of Bougainville. Through you, I should like to thank the Secretary- General for his report and to thank Mr. Türk for his verbal briefing this morning.
At a time when much of the world is preocc…
I, like previous speakers, would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this open meeting and for giving me the opportunity to speak on this issue of great importance to my country. I would also like to thank Sir Kieran Prendergast for his briefing at this mee…
From the outset, allow me to express my delegation’s congratulations to the President on his election to preside over the fifty- seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly. We are confident that with his able leadership, the General Assembly will successfully deliberate on all the import…
I would like to make some general comments on the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, under agenda item 18.
The report in document A/56/894 contains a draft resolutio…
Papua New Guinea’s position on the question of the right to self- determination is well known in the Assembly, and I do not need to repeat it. It has been reflected in Papua
New Guinea’s affirmative vote on draft resolutions on this subject in the past. However, Papua New Guinea has abstained in th…
The Secretary- General should be congratulated for his reports on oceans and the law of the sea. Papua New Guinea places particular emphasis on the sustainable use and development of the resources of the ocean space and the deep seabed. As a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, Papua New Guinea endo…
On behalf of the people and Government of Papua New Guinea, I wish to join previous speakers in congratulating the President on his election to this prestigious post.
His election shows the high esteem in which the international community holds both him personally and his country, the Republic of K…
I was going to speak after the vote, but since you have given me the floor before the vote, I would like to explain that Papua
New Guinea has traditionally abstained on all the draft resolutions contained in document A/55/602/Add.3.
The Government of Papua New Guinea considers that the rule of law…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the following Pacific Forum countries represented here at the United Nations: Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Fiji Islands, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and my own country, Pa…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the following Pacific Islands Forum countries represented here at the United Nations: Australia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and my own country, Papua New Guinea…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the countries of the Pacific Islands Forum represented here in New York: Australia, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and my own
country, Papua New Guinea. …
I am honoured to be one of the last speakers, because I can say authoritatively that past and present discussions concentrated on the reform of the Security Council point to one common agreement: there is unanimity on the need for reform. After more than 50 years, it can be expected that the Council…
I am honoured to address the General Assembly on the occasion of the
The Rapporteur of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples has just introduced the Committee’s report, contained …
