This is the third straight time since the publication in April 1998 of the important report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa that the General Assembly has considered this item. This year the Assembly will be d…
Consideration by the General Assembly of the item entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula” is taking place at a very timely moment. It follows the almost complete satisfaction expressed by the international community after the historic inter-Korean summit last June in Pyo…
My delegation is particularly pleased that following on from the Security Council, the General Assembly has decided to discuss the question of HIV/AIDS.
After the adoption of resolution 54/283, the discussions that began today show that the General Assembly is committed to what we think is the righ…
Fourteen years after its creation, it is clear that the international community now considers the zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic to be a valuable mechanism that provides its members with a framework for joint action aimed at achieving the shared goals of peace, economic and soci…
The annual consideration by the General Assembly of the cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie is evidence of the international community's interest in the contribution that such cooperation can make, and is making, towards the attainment of the …
I am pleased to join those who spoke before me in expressing my warmest congratulations to the President on his election to lead this fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly. This choice reflects the great esteem in which the international community holds his country, Namibia, as well as being …
First of all, allow me to express to you, Mr. President, the appreciation of the Group of African States for your
Just a few months before the advent of the third millennium and on the fiftieth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions — which also coincides with the centenary of the first Internationa…
As we have been able to see, the question of promoting a culture of peace will be one of the priority objectives of the international community at the beginning of the next millennium.
If that is so, it is because, according to the report on this subject issued by the Secretary-General in coordinat…
Allow me first of all, on behalf of the people of Togo and President Eyadema and his Government, to join in the congratulations extended to you, Sir, since the beginning of our work on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session.
We would also like to congratu…
I should like to join those who have spoken before me in offering you, Sir, my warmest congratulations on your outstanding election to the presidency of our Assembly.
To your illustrious predecessor, Mr. Razali Ismail of Malaysia, my delegation reaffirms its satisfaction with the efficiency and com…
First of all, I would like to express to the President my sincere and warm congratulations upon his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. My delegation is convinced that his skills, his perfect mastery of international issues and his unstinting efforts will b…
Four years ago, the General Assembly adopted resolution 46/151, which contained the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s. In that resolution, the Assembly requested the international community to make a substantial contribution to the recovery and economic development…
My delegation is speaking on this agenda item in order to draw attention to the interest that the Government of Togo takes in the activities of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation and the importance we attach to it as the one intergovernmental organization of the francophone world. I w…
Fifty years ago, learning the lessons of two world wars, which in the space of one human generation had brought unspeakable suffering to mankind, people of good will, dedicated to peace and justice and determined to preserve future generations from such horrors, founded the United Nations. To ensure…
More than anyone else, Sir, you are aware of what excellent and solid relations of cooperation, friendship and fraternity have existed for many years now between your country, Côte d’Ivoire, and Togo. It is thus with great joy and enormous pride that my country welcomes your unanimous election to th…
Two years ago, following the failure of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986-1990, the international community, in a spirit of solidarity, adopted the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, a strategy for saving our …
On behalf of the Government and people of Togo, I should like to convey very sincere condolences and feelings of compassion to the people and the Government of India, who have been so harshly afflicted by a cruel catastrophe.
Allow me first of all to discharge the pleasant duty of expressing to you…
A cruel tragedy
has just befallen the people and Government of Egypt involving great loss of
life and material damage. At this difficult time for that fraternal people,
my delegation wishes to convey sincere condolences and feelings of solidarity.
Ten years ago, the United Nations proclaimed the…
Togo, which participated in the International Conference on Kampuchea, held from 13 to 17 July 1981 in New York, wishes to speak once again on this item. In so doing, my delegation desires to express once. again its great concern over the situation prevailing in that part of the world.
15. Indeed, …
The position of Togo on the question of the Middle East is well known, especially as regards the rights of the Palestinian people and the prejudicial ac- tivities of Israel in the Arab territories that have been occupied by force.
158. The peace that we call for can only come about if each party wo…
