Mr. President, I wish to thank you for convening this wrap-up session on the African dimension in the work of the Security Council. We congratulate you and other Council members on this initiative, which shows the importance your delegation and your country attach to African issues. I would also lik…
At the outset, allow me to express to you, Mr. President, our deepest appreciation for reconvening the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly to address the tsunami disaster that has devastated a number of countries in Asia and Africa. I also take this opportunity to express once again our prof…
Allow me first of all to sincerely congratulate Mr. Julian Hunte on his election as President of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Your election to the presidency is a reflection of the high esteem the international community reserves for your country, Saint Lucia, and your good pers…
I take the floor to introduce, on behalf of its sponsors, draft resolution A/57/L.65 entitled “Assistance for humanitarian relief and the economic and social rehabilitation of Somalia”. I should like to announce that, since the publication of the draft resolution, the following countries have also b…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. I am confident that with your experience you will guide this session to a fruitful conclusion. I would also like to extend my thanks to your predecessor, Ambassador Ha…
I seize this opportunity to extend, on behalf of my Government, my warm congratulations to Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session. I am confident that, with his experience and profound dedication, he will successfully guide the proceedings o…
I want to seize this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I am confident that, under your wise leadership, the Council will continue to be engaged in promoting the principles of the United Nations Charter.
I am delighted to register the…
Allow me to convey my congratulations to Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session. I am confident that, under his wise leadership, this session will be a productive one. I would like also to take this opportunity to congratulate His Excellency…
My delegation wishes to state that it will vote in favour of the draft resolutions which are before us and which express the concern of the General Assembly over the continued threat to peace posed by the grave situation in the Middle East. We wel-
304. No one can contest the illegality, the arroga…
Two years ago the Soviet Union's armed intervention in Afghanistan and its military occupation of the small non-aligned Moslem State rightly earned strong ~nd universal condemnation by the interna- tional communIty. This flagrant violation of the principles of the Charter was deeply deplored by the …
The tragic news of the as- sassination of President Sadat of Egypt has come as a great shock to my delegation. The late President Sadat was a renowned statesman, a man of great foresight, jlnd a true friend of the Somali people.
54. The Egyptian people and the Somali people are united by long-stand…
On behalf of the Somali del- egation I should like to extend to Mr. Kittani sincere con- gratulations on his well-deserved election to the office of President of the General Assembly. His long and dis- tinguished career as a diplomat eminently qualifies him to guide the affairs of this session.
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In his statement this afternoon the representative of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic accused my country of providing military bases to the United States and of becoming an accomplice of the United States in its policies in the Middle East.
362. I should like to reiterate my Foreign Mini…
I have already spoken of the abysmal and appalling human rights record of Ethiopia, and I have given ample examples. The atrocities that have been committed since the accession to powerof the present
387. He spoke of bases being given by Somalia to the United States. I do not speak here for the Uni…
The Ethiopian representa- tives seem to enjoy interrupting and statements made on points of order in a clownish manner, so that they can humour this Assembly. I do not have any objection to their being clowns and court jesters, but I would ask that I be allowed,to conclude my statement.
360. Everyb…
Yesterday afternoon [15th meeting] the representative of Ethiopia-or Abyssinia, as the suffering majority in north-east Africa would certainly prefer to call it-under the guise of exercising his right of reply to the statement made by my Foreign Minister, viciously attacked my Government in a statem…
The present inter- national economic relations are a reflection of the unhealthy economic structure. This has had negative repercussions on the rates of economic growth in the developing countries and on the negotiations for the restructuring of international economic relations on the bases of justi…
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4. In proclaiming the International Year of the Child, it was agreed that the emphasis should be placed on ac- tivities on the national level. Thus…
I wanted to say that many people are disappearing these days as a result of the reign of terror and oppression inflicted upon the people of Ethiopia by the bloodthirsty Addis Ababa regime. They are fleeing by the thousands from the very tragic situation that exists there to Sudan, to my country and …
