It is an honour to address the Assembly in this important thematic debate on behalf of the European Union (EU). The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Bosnia and Herzeg…
It is my pleasure and honour again to address the General Assembly on the occasion of this Commemorative High-level Plenary Meeting Devoted to the Follow-up to the Outcome of the Special Session on Children.
Slovenia fully aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by Portugal on behalf of th…
First, let me thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Indonesia for presenting to the General Assembly the report of the Security Council for the period 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007 (A/62/2), which contains revealing facts reg…
Allow me to begin by saying that Slovenia aligns itself fully with the statement delivered yesterday by the representative of Portugal on behalf of the European Union.
I am particularly honoured to address the General Assembly on this occasion. We all agree that the improvement of understanding and…
Mr. President, let me first express my gratitude to your predecessor, Her Excellency Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, for her leadership of the General Assembly. To you, Sir, on behalf of Slovenia, I assure full support for your leadership. We also look forward to cooperating with Secretary-General B…
Slovenia joins other countries in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your election and wishes you all the best as you discharge your functions. As for the matter at hand, the Republic of Slovenia would like to express its support for the view put forth by the General Committee. Slovenia reaffirms…
As Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), I wish first to thank the Agency’s Director General, Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, for the statement he has just made and for his work in leading the Agency and organizing its activities, as well as for his close cooper…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the States members of the Human Security Network, namely, Austria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Mali, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand and South Africa as observer.
The role and contribution of women are critical…
Let me first congratulate Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election to the presidency of the General Assembly. We believe that under her guidance we will continue the reform process laid out in the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1). Our warm appreciation also goes to Mr. Jan Eliasson, Pre…
At the 2005 world summit, heads of State or Government expressed support for early reform of the Security Council as an essential part of overall United Nations reform, and they committed themselves to strive to reach a decision to that end.
The debate we had in November 2005 reconfirmed the widely…
It is my honour to speak on behalf of the Human Security Network, namely Austria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Mali, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Thailand, Slovenia and the observer country of South Africa.
Let me begin by thanking the Danish presidency of the Securi…
It is my honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States on the occasion of the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl catastrophe. That tragedy occurred in our region and effected many people of our region, who still suffer …
With almost 200 million international migrants in the world — and with trends that indicate that those numbers will grow even further in the future and become more widespread than they are at the moment — Slovenia believes it is necessary to enhance dialogue and cooperation between Governments in or…
Allow me to begin by condemning the terrorist attacks that took place in Amman on Wednesday. I express the deep sympathy and condolences of my Government to the Government and the people of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the human losses caused by those barbaric attacks.
I would like to thank A…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session. I would like to express to you the full support of the Republic of Slovenia as you carry out that extremely important and responsible task. May you have much vision, courag…
Slovenia fully associates itself with the statement made earlier by the representative of the Netherlands on behalf of the European Union. I should like to add some brief remarks in my national capacity.
Ten years ago, Slovenia wholeheartedly supported the proclamation of the United Nations Decade …
I wish to thank Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry of the United Kingdom for introducing the Security Council’s report in his capacity as President of the Council.
The past year has again raised a wide range of issues that the Council is taking up in exercising its primary responsibility for the maint…
At the outset, the Eastern European States wish to express our deepest sympathy to the peoples of the Dominican Republic and of Haiti following the floods in those countries.
On behalf of the States of the Eastern European Group, I would like to express our most sincere congratulations to His Excel…
It is not difficult to agree with what the preceding speaker, Mr. Mahbubani, has just shared with us in his traditional manner of addressing this audience with very original and thought-provoking ideas. I myself also intend to raise three issues that deal not so much with concrete suggestions and su…
Slovenia associates itself with and fully endorses the statement made earlier by the Italian presidency of the European Union. Since the rights of the child are a very important part of Slovenia’s domestic and foreign policy agendas, we should like in our national capacity to highlight a number of i…
