Portugal voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted by Egypt and Qatar.
I do not need to elaborate on the Portuguese position on the decision of the Government of Israel to build a new settlement in the Jabal Abu Ghneim/Har Homa area of East Jerusalem. My country co-sponsored the draft resol…
On this occasion of profound grief for the Chinese people, Portugal sincerely regrets the death of China’s Paramount Leader, Mr. Deng Xiaoping, a central and historic figure in the construction of modern China.
Mr. Deng Xiaoping was instrumental in the deepening of relations between China and Portu…
In my capacity as representative of the presidency of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/51/L.53 under agenda item 161, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration”…
Steps have been taken recently in Angola by both the Government and UNITA towards the fulfilment of important military tasks under the Lusaka Protocol. We welcome the fact that UNITA has made a formal declaration on the quartering of its troops and the delivery of its armaments and other matériel an…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on the assumption of the presidency of the Council for the current month and to pay tribute to the productive term of your predecessor, Ambassador Alfredo Lopes Cabral.
I would like to salute the Foreign Ministers and other members of the Southern African Developm…
Again I would like to stress that the contents of the Indonesian statements cannot hide the essential facts and the prevailing situation in East Timor. Nor can a period of more than 20 years suppress or erase the aspirations and rights of more than 700,000 East Timorese. We sincerely hope that Indon…
In reply to the exercise of the right of reply by the representative of Indonesia, I want to reiterate that, according to United Nations General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, East Timor is considered a Non-Self-Governing Territory. As far as East Timor is concerned, the decolonization p…
I should first like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his election and to express our confidence in his capability to conduct the work of the current session. In congratulating him on his election, I am pleased by the fact that he represents a country, Malaysia, with which Por…
Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of July. I have no doubts regarding the effectiveness with which you will be conducting the work of the Council. Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the Permanent Represent…
It is a great honour for me, as a Portuguese and member of the Government, to speak before the General Assembly at its fiftieth session and thus to be able to pay tribute to Mr. Freitas do Amaral, President of this United Nations forum, though he is not present today. My sincere and affectionate tri…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Western European and Other States.
It is with deep sorrow that I wish to pay tribute to the memory of His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, who tragically passed away on 15 January 1996.
His Majesty King Moshoeshoe…
Madam President, allow me to congratulate you, on behalf of my delegation, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month.
I would also like to commend your predecessor, Ambassador Sir John Weston, on the manner in which he conducted the Council’s business last month.
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Under agenda item 20 (b), Portugal is pleased to introduce draft resolution A/50/L.31, entitled “International assistance for the economic rehabilitation of Angola”, which we, among other countries, have sponsored. I take this opportunity to announce that Australia and France have joined the list of…
The question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council has been under consideration by the Open-ended Working Group since it was established by the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. Much work has already been done in the Working Group over the …
I wish at the outset to express the condolences and sympathy of my country to the Israeli people and to the family of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He will remain in our memory as a great statesman who dedicated his life to the cause of peace, and we sincerely hope that this terrible loss will not a…
I would just like to recall that the present talks were undertaken on the initiative of Portugal. We are committed to the success of these talks. I reiterate what I have just said. Again, I wanted to say that the Secretary-General has our trust, and that we hope we will achieve progress in these tal…
I would like to reiterate here that Portugal has no interest in the question of East Timor other than its desire to see a recognition of the fundamental right of the people of East Timor to self- determination. It is our moral and historical duty as the administering State to work towards the achiev…
It will doubtless be understood if, before beginning my statement, I express, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, the particular satisfaction which I feel in seeing an illustrious fellow countryman, Professor Diogo Freitas do Amaral, an eminent public figure and a professor at my alma mater,…
My delegation wishes to express its satisfaction at the adoption by consensus of the resolution contained in document A/49/947, which reclassifies Portugal from group C to group B. In this connection, we have informed the Secretary-General that, as declared in our statement in the Fifth Committee, t…
Mr. President, may I take this opportunity to welcome your presence here today and congratulate you on the manner in which Ambassador Legwaila has been very ably steering the work of the Council this month. A word of appreciation is also in order for the excellent work of Ambassador Cárdenas as Pres…
