We are pleased to see you, Sir, the representative of the friendly country of Pakistan, presiding over the Security Council this month. Of course, we thank you for all your efforts.
Our thanks also go to Germany, last month’s President of the Council, and its Permanent Representative.
Allow me to …
I should like at the outset to express my sincere gratitude to you, Sir, for responding to the request to resume negotiations on the item entitled “Question of Palestine”. We thank you for your long-standing wise leadership. I also wish to thank the sponsors of the draft resolution contained in docu…
We would like to express our sincere and profound thanks to all States Members of the United Nations that supported today’s resolution. We thank in particular the sponsors of the resolution, including Malaysia, and the other States that supported it from the outset, such as the members of the Organi…
Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and your friendly country, Germany, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I should also like to congratulate the Permanent Representative of France for the able manner in which he presided over the Council…
I promise that my further statement will be brief. Palestine, of course, is not yet a Member of the United Nations; it is obviously not a member of the Security Council; and it is not my intention to defend the Council against undiplomatic attacks — undiplomatic to say the least. However, I feel the…
Today’s events are indeed regrettable. The Security Council was once again prevented, because of the twenty-eighth use of the veto by the United States on the question of the occupied Palestinian territories. I would say the Council was unable to assume its
responsibilities in the maintenance of in…
Mr. President, allow me, at the outset, to extend my congratulations to you and your friendly country, France, for your presidency of the Council this month. I wish to pay tribute, at the same time, to the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China for his presidency of the Council l…
At the outset, we have to admit that we did not quite understand the nature of the last statement made by the Israeli representative. We could not grasp the meaning of the right of reply because we did not know to what it was intended to reply. In any case, we believe also that the Israeli represent…
I wish to express our deep thanks to all delegations that supported the draft resolution regarding assistance to the Palestinian people (A/58/L.33/Rev.1), which was adopted a while ago by more than an overwhelming majority. My delegation would also like to thank all the
sponsors of that important G…
First of all, we would like to express our gratitude and deep appreciation to the many States that voted in favour of the important draft resolutions just adopted. In order to be brief, I would also like to thank beforehand the countries that will support the draft resolutions introduced under the a…
Before I start my statement today, I would like to make two remarks.
The first one is about the last speaker. Despite the disgust that I felt while he was giving his statement, I will try to stick to my statement and not turn it into a right of reply.
My second remark concerns the statement by the…
The General Assembly listened earlier to a statement by the Israeli representative that reflected the same old ideas and even the expressions used by occupiers and colonialists throughout history. The statement was also fraught with a number of basic lies, of which I shall cite three.
The first is …
Mr. President, I would like to congratulate you on your election as President of the fifty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. We are confident that you will conduct the deliberations of this session with great efficiency because of your unique skills and capabilities.
We would l…
It is highly regrettable that, regardless of the issue under discussion in the Assembly — in this case humanitarian assistance — the Israeli representative is able to present us only with a standard-issue statement. He delivers it “anywhere, any time”, always on terrorism, which is highly questionab…
The least we can say about the statement made by the representative of Israel with regard to this item during this morning’s meeting is that it was full of mistakes and distortions of fact and replete with flagrant lies. Because of the limited time allotted, we shall not go into detail concerning th…
The discussion of the Assembly concerning agenda item 40 (e): Assistance to the Palestinian people, comes at a time when the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, is seriously and unprecedentedly deteriorating, in the economic, social, cultural and environmenta…
We have just heard an intervention from someone who I am not sure is normal — I am not sure whether he was talking about the issue under consideration by the General Assembly, the issue I spoke on a few moments ago. Maybe this representative has a prepared statement, written previously, that he can …
At the outset, I should like to condemn the criminal aggression committed three days ago against a group of American citizens on a journey to Gaza, which led to the deaths of three people. The Palestinian leadership and Authority, while condemning such acts categorically, will make every effort to a…
This morning, the Security Council listened to a statement that represented a new standard — in terms of legal and political ugliness — in Israeli statements before the Council. Let me cite a few specific points to demonstrate that. The Israeli representative said
(spoke in English)
“killing the i…
This is just a personal note; I want to put on the record that I am indeed disgusted at the low level of the interventions made by the Israeli representative, including the last one.
