I wish at the outset to endorse the statement just made by the representative of South Africa on behalf of the Non- Aligned Movement on the item before us, “Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion”. Most of the measures we are discussing today are sa…
As this is my first statement before the historic Millennium Assembly, I wish warmly to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri of Finland on his election to the presidency of the Assembly at its fifty-fifth session. We are fully confident that he will lead our deliberations to a successful outcome. I take t…
It gives me great pleasure at the outset to convey to Mr. Harri Holkeri on behalf of my delegation our congratulations on his election as President for this session. Aware of his well-known diplomatic experience and skill, we are confident that he will lead the work of this session to success. I sho…
I have taken the floor to correct an error in paragraph 1 of the
draft resolution which we are about to adopt, because the Arabic text of this paragraph indicates that it would be preferable if this session took place in May 2000. What we need to say here is “2001”. I would like to ask the Secretar…
I would like to comment on paragraph 10. In this regard, we strongly support those delegations that have requested verbatim records of the round tables. But even if it is the President’s ruling that verbatim records will not be easy to produce, we think the last sentence of paragraph 10 is provocati…
The delegation of Sudan has requested the floor in order to express its gratitude to all our partners from the donor community that agreed to support this resolution by consensus on the basis of its humanitarian nature. We thank them and appreciate their cooperation in achieving consensus on the res…
I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I take this opportunity to commend your initiative to convene this meeting, which allows Members of the United Nations that are not members of the Security Council to ex…
My delegation attaches particular importance to the crucial problem of humanitarian assistance, now under discussion in the Assembly and to the role played by organizations and specialized agencies in this context.
We are convinced that the world Organization is the primary body responsible not onl…
The clearance of anti-personnel landmines is one of the fundamental components of post-conflict peace-building, given the enormous number of landmines in the world, the huge costs of mine clearance and the fact that the impact of anti- personnel landmines goes beyond directly endangering persons and…
It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of the Group of African States on this occasion when the General Assembly is marking the end of the United Nations Decade of International Law. If the Decade gave us ample opportunity to promote abidance by the principles of international law, the marking of…
For the eighth successive year, the General Assembly is debating an extremely important question: that of the continued economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed coercively, unilaterally and unjustly by the United States against Cuba.
At all previous sessions, the Assembly renewed its uneq…
At the outset, I wish to say that we are pleased and honoured to extend our thanks to the President of the International Court of Justice and to the honourable members of the Court for the comprehensive report on the Court and its work from August 1998 to July 1999.
We would also like to express ou…
We are discussing today one of the most important items on the agenda of this session: the report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization. It deals with humanitarian challenges, and we would like to express our thanks to the Secretary-General for the interest he has paid to this top…
Today we meet to observe a highly cherished and significant occasion: the International Year of Older Persons, in appreciation of and gratitude for the lofty status of this important societal category. The Year also recognizes its effective role in raising families and generations. In 1982, the Worl…
Allow me at the outset to extend to Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab the sincere congratulations of my delegation on his election to the presidency of this session. We are confident that his well- known experience and abilities will lead this session to a successful conclusion. We assure him of the full coopera…
We would not be taking your time at this late hour, Mr. President, nor that of the Assembly if the representative of the Ugandan regime had not made certain accusations regarding my country. I would like to reply to his fabrications. But first, I would like to recall a passage from a statement made …
We are taking the floor to exercise our right of reply with respect to the claims made by the Ambassador of Uganda, who has consistently tried to deceive representatives and, as we heard yesterday, is attempting also to deceive the international community by presenting a series of lies in order to j…
Allow me first of all to take this opportunity to warmly thank the President, on behalf of my delegation, for having convened the General Assembly to consider agenda item 167, entitled “Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo”. As the Assembly knows, the Congo is a brotherly Af…
First, I would like to thank the Chairman of the African Group for the Group's submission of this draft resolution which he was kind enough to introduce on the Group's behalf.
I also would like to thank all the parties that succeeded in bringing this draft resolution to the Assembly by consensus, a…
Today, we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a very important historical document that has always enjoyed the respect of all countries of the world because it deepens and perpetuates the highest values of our human heritage. The Declaration makes frequen…
