First of all, I would like to extend my warm and fraternal congratulations to you, Mr. President. We are very proud to see you, an African, in a leadership role at the Security Council — which finds itself at a major crossroads in this month of March 2003. May God continue to guide and inspire you i…
At the outset, let me thank you, Sir, for your praiseworthy efforts to enable us better to understand the situation. My delegation understands full well that the decision you took was based on information and an opinion given to you by the services of the Legal Adviser. That is why my delegation, in…
The delegation of Senegal is particularly pleased we in the Assembly are revisiting, without bias or complacency, the already rich cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) which should now be furthered and expanded upon.
In fulfilling the noble mission entrusted to it in th…
I am delighted to see my dear friend once again in the presidential seat just as I take the floor. On behalf of the delegation of Senegal, I wish to express gratitude to you for your wise initiative in having today’s discussion focus on assistance in mine action. At the same time I convey congratula…
It is always a great honour — and an intimidating enterprise — to take the floor after the representative of Venezuela, who has just stated the position of the Group of 77 and China. I would like to congratulate him on the vivid
statement he has just made, as well as to say that my delegation fully…
The African Group has honoured me by asking me to speak
on its behalf under agenda item 42. I accept its invitation and am very pleased to comply with its wishes.
Some figures will make it possible to construct the horrifying picture that we see and to give an idea of this apocalyptic vision of a …
My colleague from Togo has just given a very detailed, well-documented and edifying statement. I would like to congratulate him and to associate myself fully with all of his incisive comments. During the few minutes it
took to make that statement at least 10 African children died from malaria. That…
“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.” This statement, contained in the preamble of the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is the foundation for the Declaration and …
First and foremost, I would like, on behalf of my delegation, to address my compliments to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for the fruitful efforts he has made together with his outstanding team since 1997 to have our Organization adopt an innovative strategy commensurate with the breadth, co…
On behalf of my delegation, I am very happy to extend to the President our great thanks and appreciation for his highly commendable initiative of dedicating this important meeting to two issues of concern to the international community, and which reflect very clearly the major challenges facing Afri…
It is always a pleasure, Ambassador Grey-Johnson, to see you comfortably installed on the podium, especially as the Permanent Representative of the Gambia, a brotherly and friendly African country.
Let me convey my warm congratulations to Ambassador Martin Belinga-Eboutou, Permanent Representative …
The relevant reports we have received from the Secretary- General give us once again this year the full measure of the complexity of the tasks we face and the extent of the challenges we have to take up. We therefore remain firmly convinced, as ever, that multilateral action, which is the raison d’ê…
My delegation is particularly pleased to convey to Mr. Jan Kavan its heartfelt congratulations and fervent hopes for success in the lofty and important task ahead of him. His well-deserved election to the presidency of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly is a fitting tribute to the spi…
The world has its eyes fixed on America one year after the terrorist attacks against New York. On behalf of the Senegalese people and on my own behalf, I would like to express strong solidarity with the American people.
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Today we again hear the clanking of weapons and the rumbling…
As Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), it is my pleasure, first of all, to convey to you our great pride and to express our heartfelt congratulations on the outstanding manner in which you have been discharging your mandate, with, of course…
Beyond the symbolism of the Millennium Summit in marking our passage into the third millennium, that September 2000 event was a major turning point in the United Nations chapter of the history of humankind. In perfect harmony, our heads of State and Government played the score of universalism, stres…
Pending further news, I also wish to share in the sadness we all feel on the announcement of an aeroplane crash in Queens.
Through me, Senegal has the pleasure of addressing its warm congratulations to Mr. Han Seung- soo on his brilliant election to the presidency of the fifty-sixth session of the …
Ten years ago, during the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly, the African continent, through the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, committed itself, together with the international community, in a political and moral contract in which the responsibility o…
My country, Senegal, and its people, through the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, have unanimously — regardless of political, sociological or religious views — strongly and vigorously condemned the terrorist attacks perpetrated against the United States of America on 11 September last.…
On the occasion of the adoption of resolution 55/253, I would
like to recall that the Committee on Development Policy, in the course of its last triennial review of the list of least developed countries, which was held from 3 to 7 April 2000, recommended that Senegal be placed on that list. The Eco…
