On behalf of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations, I have the honour to address this resumed session of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44, entitled “The situation in the Middle East”, to consider the continuing Israeli aggression against Lebanon. The convening o…
Allow me to express our congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that you will lead the Security Council successfully and skilfully. I should like also to express my thanks and appreciation to Ambassador Legwaila of Bo…
The observer delegation of Palestine wishes to take this opportunity to extend thanks to all those delegations which co-sponsored the draft resolution contained in document A/50/L.54 entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian people” and for the unanimous adoption of the resolution. This undoubtedly re…
It gives me pleasure, at the outset, to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly. We have great faith in your sagacity and your ability to conduct successfully the work of this historic session of the General Assembly.
It also gives me plea…
My intervention relates to agenda item 20 (b) regarding assistance to the Palestinian people.
The conclusion by the Palestinian and Israeli parties of the second implementation agreement for the Declaration of Principles, through the signing of the interim agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip,…
At the outset I should like to express our thanks and appreciation to all the members of the Security Council that voted in favour of the draft resolution that was just voted upon. The overwhelming support for the draft resolution, expressed in the fact that 14 members of the Council voted in favour…
First of all, I would like to assure the President and members of the Security Council that I do not intend to exercise fully my right of reply to the statement made by the delegate of Israel as this would require a great deal of time which we do not have available at the moment. I will therefore re…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May and to express our full confidence in your ability to guide the Council’s work. I should also like to take this opportunity to thank His Excellency Ambassador Kovanda, t…
I merely wished to comment briefly on the statement by the representative of Israel.
First, I must draw the attention of the representative of Israel to the need to use the official name of our delegation. We are the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations. That is our name, a…
My delegation would like at the outset to express its deepest thanks to the Permanent Representative of Norway for introducing the draft resolution just adopted on the financing of the Palestinian Police Force. We should also like to thank him for his delegation's efforts in this regard.
On this oc…
Mr. President, it is our pleasure to participate in the deliberations in the Security Council during the few remaining hours before the end of this month under your wise presidency. Allow me, Sir, to seize this opportunity to express my congratulations to you on a very successful presidency of the S…
Draft resolution A/49/L.50, on assistance to the Palestinian people, which was adopted this morning, resembles the resolution that the General Assembly first adopted unanimously last year under the same item. It also resembles Economic and Social Council resolution 1994/29 of 27 July 1994.
The Pale…
Allow me, first of all, to thank the people and the Government of Nicaragua for having hosted the
At this moment in history, the Palestinian people is going through a transition, from national liberation to the building of State institutions, on a democratic basis, in the political, economic and so…
Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by congratulating you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its current session. I wish you every success in conducting the Assembly’s work and in achieving its desired goals. In electing you, the General Assembl…
Please let me begin by expressing our deep appreciation of the efforts of the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations, Ambassador Richard Butler, in steering the work of the Committee and our thanks to Ambassador Lucille Mair, the Committee’s Rapporte…
Although this question has been before the
I would also like to offer our thanks and appreciation to the members of the Security Council for adopting this important resolution, resoluion 904 (1994). We worked hard with them, including the co-sponsors of the Middle East peace process, to remove all …
It gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by congratulating you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. I wish you great success in directing the work of the Assembly towards its desired objectives. In electing you, Sir, the Assembly has c…
It is my
pleasure to start this statement by extending to you. Sir, my sincere
congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at
its forty-seventh session. We are confident that, with your wisdom and great
skill, you will lead the work of the present session to a succ…
