I endorse the comprehensive statement made by the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Fiji on behalf of the member countries of the South Pacific Group (SOPAC), including my own country, and the statements introducing the draft resolutions made by Finland, the United States and New Zealand. …
I thank you, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to make some general comments regarding all the items before the General Assembly for consideration today, and especially those under the mandate of the Special Political Committee on Decolonization, the Committee of 24.
Papua New Guinea’s position an…
On behalf of the people and the Government of Papua New Guinea, I wish to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your election to your important post. Your unanimous election as President of the General Assembly shows the esteem in which the international community holds bot…
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the international community for thinking of us in our time of need.
As all of us have learned through the media, it has been confirmed that between 1,600 and 1,700 people have died as a result of the tsunami in Papua New Guinea. The tsunami has…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your efforts and those of your friends during this exercise. I would also like, through you, to pay tribute to the Secretary-General in his attempt to enhance the overall efficiency of the United Nations and to prepare it for the challenges of the …
On behalf of the people and Government of Papua New Guinea, I wish to join previous speakers in conveying our felicitations to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly. The Papua New Guinea delegation is confident that you will guide this sessi…
On behalf of the States members of the Asian Group, I wish to express our deepest regret and sorrow at the untimely passing away of Ambassador Benny Kimberg, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations. The late Ambassador Kimberg had an impressive record of service to his country, ser…
I wish to express the views of my country on the omnibus resolution pertaining to the questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.
Let me begin b…
Papua New Guinea has the honour to make this statement in its capacity as the present Chair of the South Pacific Forum and on behalf of the 16 member countries of the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall I…
Having heard again the French representative’s voluminous comments in exercise of the right of reply, I wish to state further that this is not a debate on semantics: this is an issue of life and death for the people of the Pacific. We therefore reiterate that it is absolutely nonsensical and irratio…
I take the floor in my capacity as the Permanent Representative of the Member State of Papua New Guinea, which currently holds the Chair of the South Pacific Forum, to exercise our right of reply to the French delegation’s statements in exercise of their right of reply, in reference to nuclear testi…
I have the honour to speak in my capacity as the Chairman of the Group of Asian States and, on their behalf, I wish to extend our warmest and sincere congratulations to you, Professor Diogo Freitas do Amaral, on your unanimous election to the important post of President of this historic fiftieth ses…
On behalf of the Papua New Guinea delegation, it is my extreme pleasure to lend our support to draft resolution A/49/L.62/Rev.1, which relates to cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In so doing, we further associate ourselves with the statements made by the …
It is an honour and pleasure for me to take this opportunity to state the views of my delegation on the important occasion of our commemoration of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.
Indigenous people are the autochthonous or aboriginal peoples of the land and are found in ma…
My delegation joins previous speakers in welcoming the Secretary-General’s report on “An agenda for development”, contained in document A/49/665, and we wish to commend him for the substantial improvement, lucid presentation of content and reduced length, compared to his previous report. At the outs…
In the 20 years since Bucharest, the international community has successfully forged a common vision and reached a global consensus on a Programme of Action that will serve as a blueprint from which each State will shape its own policies and programmes according to its specific needs and priorities.…
My delegation fully endorses and associates itself with the statements made by the Chairpersons of the Group of 77, the Alliance of Small Island States and the South Pacific Forum, who have eloquently expressed and conveyed the significance and the importance of the Global Conference on the Sustaina…
On behalf of my delegation and Government and the people of Papua New Guinea I join previous speakers in warmly congratulating Ambassador Amara Essy of Côte d’Ivoire on his election as the President of the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly. My delegation is confident that he will maintain …
I am honoured to deliver this statement on behalf of the Government and people of Papua New Guinea at a time when the international community, with the close cooperation of the former South African Government and its peoples, has turned the page on the issue of apartheid. A new South Africa has been…
As Chairman 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, also known as the Committee on Decolonization, it is my honour to address the Assembly on agenda item 18.
All members are acu…
