First of all, I would like say that we share the hope of the representative of Sweden that draft resolution A/48/L.18, which we are discussing, will be adopted unanimously. On behalf of my own delegation, I hope we will act in this fashion because what is being discussed here today will be discussed…
The Russian delegation welcomes the unanimous adoption by the Security Council
of a resolution intended to ensure the successful completion of the United
Nations operation in Cambodia. We consider it especially important to achieve
consensus on such issues as support. for the holding of elections…
The
question of the situation in the Middle East has appeared on the General
Assembly's agenda for 45 years. The decades-long Arab-Israeli armed
confrontation in that region, which has more than once taken the form of
large-scale wars, convincingly demonstrated that it is impossible to solve tl
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In
the wake of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UHCED), which was called for, and which became a watershed in the life of the
international community, for the first time we are to address environment
issues in the context of sustainable development, giving questions …
I
should like, first, to join in the expressions of sympathy to the Egyptian
delegation in connection with the earthquake that occurred in its country and
the losses resulting from that natural disaster.
Our delegation shares with other delegations that have spoken here a high
opinion of the re…
It
gives me great pleasure to speak from this rostrum, to participate in this
exchange of experience, information and ideas at the special plenary meeting
of the General Assembly devoted to the conclusion of the United Nations Decade
of Disabled Persons.
First, I should like to say something ab…
First, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to this
important post. The fact that a representative of Bulgaria has assumed this
post at the head of the Assembly at precisely this time is a sign of the
importance that the world community attaches to the peaceful democratic
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Given the global financial and economic crisis, the role of the United Nations as a universal platform for finding collective ways to approach the current problems facing the international community
only continues to grow. Now more than ever, we need a coordinated international policy aimed at impl…
We concur with the assessment of the representative of Belarus concerning the cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), as well as with that of the representative of Kazakhstan concerning the work of the United Nations with the Shanghai Cooperatio…