I would like to explain our vote on resolution 67/73, entitled “The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East”.
During the general debate and the substantive debate in the First Committee at this sixty-seventh session, many of the statements made welcomed the convening of a conference aimed …
Allow me, first of all, to thank Ms. Michelle Bachelet for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on
women and peace and security (S/2012/732). We would like to tell her how much we appreciate her work since she assumed her post.
The Syrian Arab Republic has sought to develop in a qualitat…
The League of Arab States has made itself part of the problem, not part of the solution, owing to its early attempts to internationalize the Syrian crisis by calling for external intervention aimed at destroying Syria as a country and as a people. That is something that runs contrary to the most bas…
My country participated actively in the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, which led to the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998. We signed and ratified the Statute on 29 November 2000.
The Rome Statute was intended to…
I would like to congratulate Mr. Vuk Jeremić and his friendly country, the Republic of Serbia, on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and to wish him every success in conducting our work in a way that restores to the Assembly President his important and neu…
First of all, we would like to thank the facilitators, the representatives of Jordan and Japan, for their efforts to arrive at a common agreement on the term “human security”, in keeping with the provisions of the Charter and the principles of international law, while reaffirming the rights of peopl…
It is indeed regrettable that we have had to listen to statements containing a torrent of mischaracterizations and falsehoods from several speakers.
In the statement made by the observer of the European Union (EU) there were assertions that the EU cared about the welfare of the Syrian people. Let m…
I was surprised to hear the representative of the Zionist regime respond once again to our words. I was even more surprised that she talked about maps, topography and the features of that topography in an occupying State that is exercising a new form of occupation based on expelling the original inh…
We regret the statement made by the representative of Israel regarding Syria. We would like to recall that Israel should be the last to speak about combating State terrorism. This is an inappropriate term to be used by Israel, which was born at the expense of the suffering of the Arab people, their …
My delegation joined the consensus on the adoption of resolution 66/276 on the financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force and voted in favour of resolution 66/277 on the financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. Our position in based on our consistent support for th…
My delegation would like to make the following statement to explain its position regarding the note by the Secretary-General contained in document A/66/802.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights has taken hostile positions towards Syria on the basis of completely fabricated information and suspect…
I would like to thank all the delegations that supported our oral amendment to draft decision A/66/L.44.
I would also like to express our regret that Syria’s amendment was not adopted, despite the logical basis and reasons supporting the legitimacy and reasonableness
of our request to omit two org…
I asked to speak because the representative of the Israeli occupation went off the subject. If he wants to discuss terrorism, we can discuss terrorism; systematic Israeli terrorism, with its very long history, has touched even the staff of the United Nations. We are all aware of Israel’s actions and…
My delegation regrets that consideration of the item on the agenda concerning the participation of non-governmental organizations was not deferred. Through that proposal, we had wished to ensure that the Secretariat addresses violations relating to the tasks that fall under its purview, in this case…
My delegation would like to request that we defer consideration of draft decision A/66/L.44, pursuant to rule 74 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, to allow us to continue consultations.
On behalf of my delegation, I would like to begin by welcoming the Russian Federation’s commendable initiative in introducing the draft resolution (A/66/L.43) on improving global road safety, an enormously important issue that affects people all over the world. I would also like to thank the Secreta…
My delegation voted against section IX, on special political missions, of resolution 66/247 owing to our concerns about the resources to be allocated in accordance with the provisions of that part of the resolution.
The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen, is continuing to…
My country’s delegation wishes to exercise its right of reply to respond to the statement made by the representative of Canada, who spoke on agenda item 70.
The representative of Canada explicitly mentioned Syria in referring to the strengthening of humanitarian assistance provided by the United Na…
We are truly concerned about, and puzzled by, the attempts on the part of the delegations of Australia and Japan to insert the Syrian internal developments into today’s debate, which is devoted to finding ways to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands and stop Israel’s aggressive and inhuman pract…
