Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. We are confident that under your leadership, Sir, this body, the most representative of the United Nations, will strengthen its role in order to respond to events that concer…
El Salvador reaffirms its commitment to peace, unconditional respect for human rights, international law and the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. It also reiterates its hope that a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine can be found.
El Salvador vig…
El Salvador is grateful for the initiative of holding this High-level Meeting, which enables us to carry out a comprehensive review of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. This is an issue of great importance in El Salvador, as chronic non-communicable di…
El Salvador would first like to thank the President for his initiative in convening this meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (resolution S-26/2) and the Political Declarations on HIV and AIDS (resolutions 60/262, annex, and 65/277, annex).
Our country recogniz…
I should like to address agenda item 15, “Culture of peace”, which has always been of great importance to the people and Government of El Salvador in both its domestic and its international dimensions. We believe that this issue of great importance as a theme that encompasses all three pillars of th…
Allow me, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of El Salvador, to commend the President for organizing today’s debate on agenda item 76, entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”. Through you, Sir, I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports (A/68/71 and A/68/71/Add.1). I …
Allow me to express my delegation’s satisfaction for the initiative of President Ashe to convene this meeting of the General Assembly to review the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters, as well as the question concerning S…
I would like to make the following general statement after the voting. El Slavador voted in favour
of resolution 68/8, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.
First, we would like to highlight the fact that…
Migration is a phenomenon as old as humankind itself. Humans have always moved from one place to the next, but only recently has it been considered a problem. Only recently has it appeared on the national and international agendas.
The countries of the Central American region, particularly those of…
I wish to convey to you the congratulations of our regional group, Mr. President, on your presiding over the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of our negotiating group, composed of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, the Dominican Republi…
I would like to convey my delegation’s appreciation for the initiative of the President of the General Assembly to appraise the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons,
adopted in 2010. Likewise, I would like to convey my appreciation to the Permanent Representatives o…
I should like to thank you, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to tell the Council, very briefly, about the situation in El Salvador with regard to sexual violence and gender-based violence in general, 21 years after the signing of the peace agreements that brought our past armed conflict to an end…
We are brought together today by a great individual who departed this world more than a week ago, but who has left us a precious legacy to cherish. Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, showed outstanding leadership and by all accounts will enter humankind’s history b…
Mr. President, may I say how warmly my delegation welcomes your initiative in convening this open debate in the Security Council on the theme “Peacekeeping in the United Nations: a multidimensional approach”. In today’s world, this is key to understanding
not only the international context but also…
El Salvador, which is one of the few States to have signed but not ratified the Convention we are celebrating today, believes that the Convention largely reflects the aspirations of humankind to a just and balanced legal regime and that the provisions of the Convention already constitute norms of cu…
El Salvador welcomes the convening of this debate on Security Council reform. We are convinced that it is an essential and urgent issue for the strengthening of multilateralism as the practicable way for enhancing the capacities for legitimate action by the United Nations in order to contribute in a…
Allow me to express the satisfaction of my delegation upon the President’s initiative of convening this plenary meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (resolution S-26/2, annex) and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (resolution 65/277, annex), particularly at …
El Salvador welcomes the adoption of resolution 66/255, entitled “Civilian capacity in the aftermath of conflict”. We take this opportunity to thank the Permanent Missions of Canada and Indonesia for their efforts and flexibility during the consultations that led to the consensus adoption of the res…
El Salvador regrets that there was no consensus
on resolution 66/254 on the intergovernmental process of the General Assembly on strengthening and enhancing the functioning of the human rights treaty body system, for which we voted in favour. We have closely followed this process from the beginning…
On behalf of my delegation, it is a pleasure to address this plenary meeting of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session as we discuss resolution 66/231 on oceans and the law of the sea.
The Republic of El Salvador is aware of the importance of the oceans, and in particular of the rational e…
