With respect to agenda item 36, allow me, at this 55th plenary meeting of the General Assembly, to thank the President of the Assembly and his predecessor for recommending this draft resolution for our consideration. I should like to express my deepest appreciation for the convening of this meeting,…
It is my pleasure once again to extend our thanks and appreciation to you, Mr. President, for presiding over this meeting to consider agenda item 13, entitled “Report of the International Court of Justice”. It is also our pleasure to extend our congratulations to Mr. Gilbert Guillaume, President of …
I should like at the outset to extend my congratulations to Mr. Holkeri on his election to preside over the work of this important fifty-fifth session. It is indeed important because it is the first session in the new millennium. We are confident that his experience and diplomatic capability will be…
My delegation would like to offer our warmest thanks to you, Sir, for giving us the opportunity to take part in a debate that is important for most delegations. The best proof of this is the length of the list of speakers. It was not long ago that my delegation last addressed the various issues we a…
I am pleased to make this statement on behalf of the Arab Group, which my delegation is chairing this month, on the agenda item entitled “Dialogue among civilizations”. Allow me to extend our sincere thanks to the Secretary- General for the report in A/54/546. This report includes an outline of how …
As we discuss agenda items 43 and 44 of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly, it pleases me to convey my thanks and appreciation to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his two reports submitted under these two items pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 53/37 and 53/38 of 2 December 1998.…
It is my honour, as Chairman of the Group of Asian States and as Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, to join the international community in offering our condolences and our deep sympathy to the Government and the people of Bahrain and to the bereaved family on the d…
On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be the common ideal for which all peoples and nations should strive. This commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration enables States to report progress made in the implementation of thi…
As we are debating the agenda item on the question of Palestine, I wish at the outset to convey to Mr. Opertti my delegation's appreciation for the efforts he has made
I wish also to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his good offices and persistent efforts to resolve outstanding inte…
The State of Qatar, as current Chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), has the honour and privilege of introducing the draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference”, contained in document A/53/L.13 of 27 Octobe…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I thank you and your colleagues for so quickly responding to our call for the convening of this meeting.
It is my honour, on behalf of the State of Qatar and the States memb…
On behalf of the member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), I take this opportunity to extend my thanks to all. To me, the adoption of the draft decision designating Ed Al-Fitr and Ed Al-Adha as United Nations holidays represents a new epoch of equality within this, our Unite…
On behalf of the States members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, I wish to say that we support the position just set out by the Chairman of the Group of 77. At the same time, I think it is time for us to get beyond what happened in the Fifth Committee. None of us should reopen this iss…
As members know, Qatar is among the candidates for membership of the Economic and Social Council. My country attaches great importance to occupying one of the seats allocated to the Asian States in order to represent our region. We recall that all countries large and small are eligible to stand for …
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Sir, for convening and presiding
I have the honour and the pleasure to welcome the formation of the new Government of Unity and National Reconciliation in Angola on behalf of the Asian Group and my country. This is truly an important juncture in A…
I should like at the outset, on behalf of my delegation and on that of the other members of the League of Arab States — Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the Sudan, t…
It gives me pleasure to address the General Assembly on agenda item 24, “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference”. I wish to thank you, Sir, for guiding the work of the Assembly ably and with diplomatic tact.
It has been proved that cooperation between …
One year after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina, important and major provisions of the Agreement have been implemented. Hostilities have ceased, a zone of separation between the parties to the conflict has been established, national elections were held on 14 Septe…
The General Assembly is once again meeting to consider the item on the question of Palestine, which has been on the agenda for half a century.
It was the United Nations that laid the basis for a just solution guaranteeing the exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people including th…
It gives me pleasure, Sir, to extend to you our sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the
General Assembly at its fifty-first session. We are confident that you will lead the work of the Assembly to success. I cannot fail to pay tribute to your predecessor, Mr. Diogo Freitas…
