It is my honour to address the General Assembly today on behalf of the Arab States members of the League of Arab States, and as Chairman of the Arab Group for the month of February.
It is my sad duty to convey to the Government and the people of Togo our most sincere condolences on the death of the…
I should like, first of all, to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting to consider the tragic effects of the natural disaster that struck South Asia and South-East Asia. We would also like to thank the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the current Chairman of the Association of S…
I would just like to note that the Arabic version of the draft resolutions just adopted did not take into account the oral revisions made in the Fifth Committee. I request that those revisions be included in the final documents.
First, I have the honour of supporting the statement made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. The General Assembly’s commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family shows the importance of the family as a fundamental and natural unit …
Unlike other regions, the Middle East has been subjected for many centuries to external threats, an onslaught of injustice, the falsification of facts and the use of force against its people, in a continuous process in which its potential is threatened and its intellectual and material wealth is squ…
It is no coincidence that the countries of the world meet annually on this very day to deal with the ongoing tragedy experienced by the Palestinian people for many decades. That tragedy persists despite the efforts of the international community represented by the United Nations Organization. To thi…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report that has been presented under the two issues on the agenda. We also support the statement made by the Qatar delegation on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
When the heads of State and Government met in New York at the beginning of the n…
I should like first of all to join with all previous speakers who have expressed their sincere and heartfelt condolences to our brothers from the delegation of the United Arab Emirates for the loss of their leader, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, who was an eminent and very worthy ma…
We would like to express our thanks to you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on women and peace and security, an issue of great importance on the agenda of the international community. We listened with great interest to the statements made earlier by Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Ms. Thoraya Oba…
I would like to begin by associating myself with the statement delivered by the delegation of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter underscore the right of States to exercise their sovereignty over their own territory and establish t…
I regret to have to take the floor once again, but I should like to make two points.
First, the representative of Israel referred to the presence of Palestinian headquarters in Damascus. Those Palestinians present in Syria are refugees, expelled by Israel from their homeland by force, who have foun…
I am sorry for taking the floor at this late hour, but I would like to reply to the statement made by the representative of Israel in his attempt to pull the wool over our eyes and once again blot out facts before this Assembly. Today, we are discussing the question of children in armed conflict. It…
It is with great pleasure that we meet today, as children’s issues occupy a prominent place on the agenda of the United Nations, as well as on the agendas of the world’s countries and organizations. There is hardly a United Nations document, whether of the General Assembly or the Security Council, t…
Allow me at the outset to thank Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry, President of the Security Council for this month, for submitting the report of the Security Council covering the period from August 2003 to July 2004.
I should like to reiterate on this occasion that the General Assembly’s considerati…
First, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to consider the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/59/1). I would also like to thank the Secretary- General for his report, in view of its importance in the current unstable international circ…
We wish at the outset to express the Syrian delegation’s support for the statement made by the representative of brotherly Algeria yesterday on behalf of the working group of the Non-Aligned Movement on reforming the United Nations and revitalizing the work of the General Assembly.
We also wish to …
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I would also like to express our appreciation for the way in which Ambassador Yáñez-Barnuevo conducted the Council’s deliberations last month. I would like to thank you and, thro…
At the outset, my delegation would like to congratulate you, Sir, on presiding over the Security Council this month. We also wish to thank the Permanent Representative of the Philippines and his mission staff for their successful leadership of the Council last month.
My delegation also takes this o…
Our international Organization is almost a twin sister of the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East because, since its inception, the Organization has adopted hundreds of resolutions in the hope of reaching a just and comprehensive settlement of the Israeli-Arab conflict — a sol…
My delegation joined the consensus on the adoption of resolution entitled “Financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force” and voted in favour of the resolution entitled “Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon”, based on the principle, which my delegation has always s…
