My delegation would like to explain its vote on the draft resolution before us. The heart of the draft resolution lies in its operative paragraph 2. That paragraph takes note of the report of the Committee on the
17. We can support the proposal that the Palestinian Arab refugees have a right to cho…
This morning my delegation voted in favour of nine draft resolutions and abstained in the vote on one. We have, however, some reservations concerning certain paragraphs in two of the draft resolu- tions for which we voted. In respect of draft resolution A/31/L.8, we have reservations concerning the …
My Government "opposes and condemns the apartheid policy of the Government of South Africa. We do so because we recognize racial prejudice as a dangerous disease threatening the healthy development of the human race and racial discrimination as an unmitigated evil of society. The policy ofapartheid …
It is my duty and privilege, as the current Chairman of the Commonwealth Group of States, to introduce on behalf of its 33 sponsors draft resolution A/31/L.2 and Add.l. The heart of the draft resolution is to be found in its operative paragraph 1. That paragraph proposes to invite the Commonwealth S…
Mr. President, your election as President of the thirty-first session of the General Assembly is a reflection of your personal merit and of the honourable placeyour country, Sri Lanka, occupies in the international community. It isno accident that your Prime Minister, Mrs. S. Bandaranaike, is the cu…
Fifteen years have passed since 1966, when the General Assembly adopted resolution 2145 (XXI) terminating South Africa's Mandate over Namibia. Ten years have passed since the Interna- tional Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on 21 June 1971,1 in which it held that South Africa's Mandate ov…
We are marking the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption ofthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights. During the past 30 years the United Nations has adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International. Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a host of ot…
The Assembly has before it a draft resolution contained in document A/37/L.13/ Rev.1. We also have before us an amendment con- tained in document A/37/L.15/Rev.l. The report of the Fifth Committee on the administrative and financial implications of the draft resolution is contained in document A/37/…
