On behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Poland and of the bereaved family of the President of the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Mr. Stanislaw Trepczynski, I wish to extend our warm gratitude to this body for the fitting tribute it has just paid to its f…
I am speaking on behalf of the members of the Convening Group of the Community of Democracies, namely, Chile, the Czech Republic, India, Mali, Mexico, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of South Africa, the United States of America and my own country, Poland, to welcome the adoption of th…
Let me first express the appreciation of the Polish delegation to the Secretary- General for his very comprehensive and useful report entitled “Road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration”. The report can help us, the Member States, in identifying the best strate…
We have just learned of the crash of an American Airlines plane in New York. We the Polish delegation, offer our heartfelt condolences, and express our sympathy to the Government of the United States and the Dominican Republic and to the families of the victims of this tragedy.
At the outset, let m…
Eight years after the inception of the Open-ended Working Group on the
Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council, adapting the principal organ responsible for the maintenance of international peac…
Let me begin by expressing the heartfelt condolences of my Government to the people and Government of the United States, and especially to the families of the victims of the barbaric attack of 11 September.
Poland fully associates itself with the statement made on behalf of the European Union by th…
My delegation welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the prevention of armed conflict. We believe that, when fully implemented, the recommendations of this sound and comprehensive study will contribute significantly to strengthening the United Nations capacity in maintaining international p…
I have taken the floor on behalf of the members of the Convening Group of the Community of Democracies, namely, Chile, the Czech Republic, India, Mali, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the United States of America and my own country, Poland, to welcome the adoption of the resolution entitled “Suppor…
Comprehensive reform of the Security Council is one of the most urgent and important tasks facing the United Nations. That truth, recognized several years ago, led to the start of work on the reform process within the Assembly’s Open- ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation o…
I wish first to point out that Poland associated itself with the statement made earlier today on this agenda item by the representative of France on behalf of the European Union and associated countries.
Five years have passed since the world’s heads of State and Government met in Copenhagen to dec…
At the outset, allow me to express the satisfaction of the Polish Government on the adoption by the General Assembly, to take place shortly, of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Since Poland is a European Union associated country, it fully subscribes to the statement of the Presi…
Allow me first of all to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri on his election as President of the Millennium session of the General Assembly. The Polish delegation expresses its satisfaction that the presidency of this session has been entrusted to an eminent statesman from Finland, a country with which w…
My delegation considers the question of Security Council reform to be at the forefront of issues which need to be resolved in the wider context of adapting the United Nations so that it may better cope with the challenges that it is facing at the turn of the millennium.
There seems to be a clear co…
I wish to state for the record that Poland associates itself with the statement made yesterday by the representative of Finland on behalf of the European Union on the agenda item under consideration.
The imminent change of centuries is not merely a symbolic turning point arising from the principles of the Gregorian calendar. With the end of the twentieth century, we would wish to leave forever behind the era of great world wars, holocaust, cold-war global divisions and many no-less- tragic local…
Please accept my congratulations, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its current session. We are indeed glad to have a distinguished statesman from Africa presiding over important deliberations on global security and development. I am sure that your personal attribute…
My delegation wishes to inform the Assembly that we have decided to align ourselves with the statement made earlier by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union.
In my capacity as representative of Minister Bronislaw Geremek, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/53/L.60, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and …
Let me begin by fully associating myself with the statement made on behalf of the European Union by the Ambassador of Austria.
We are meeting here today to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of one of the most important treaties of international law: the Convention on the Preventi…
Allow me to express at the outset, Sir, my congratulations on your very effective presidency of the Security Council this month.
I am taking the floor today mainly to present the views of the Polish Chairmanship-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The reason…
