Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the Security Council and to express our joy at seeing you guide the work of this body with your characteristic skill and talent. I also congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Owada of Japan, for his excellent wo…
At the outset, I should like to thank the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Judge Laïty Kama, for introducing the first report on the work of the Tribunal. This report gives us an opportunity to learn about the progress that has been made in establishing the Tribunal and o…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for the detailed, comprehensive reports submitted to the Assembly under the item on the law of the sea.
In the report contained in document A/51/645, the Secretary-General describes the new developments that have occurred since the previous sess…
At this session, the General Assembly is considering, as it has done for decades, the question of Palestine and the suffering of the Palestinian people following the confiscation of their lands and their forcible exile at the end of the 1940s, and in the wake of the successive wars the region has ex…
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) has increased in
This has been particularly manifest in the area of conflict prevention and peacekeeping. Since the establishment of the OAU Central Organ of the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Reso…
The General Assembly’s consideration of the report of the Security Council enables Member States to present their points of view on ways to strengthen the action of the Council as the organ with the primary responsibility for security and the maintenance of peace and one that acts at the same time o…
Following the recent natural disaster in Honduras, I too would like to express our sympathy for and solidarity with that friendly country in the hope that the Government and people of Honduras will quickly recover from this ordeal with the assistance of the international community.
Speaking on agen…
At the outset, I take pleasure in thanking Ambassador Hisashi Owada of Japan, who presided over last September’s proceedings of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in th…
Allow me first to pay a tribute to Ambassador Breitenstein of Finland and Ambassador Jayanama of Thailand for their tireless efforts at the head of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Rel…
I should like to thank the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the report submitted to the General Assembly on its activities for 1995, as contained in document A/51/307. We also wish to thank the Director General of the Agency, Mr. Hans Blix, for his statement this morning and for the add…
It gives me great pleasure to speak today on the item dealing with cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
The institutionalization of the links between the universal Organization and the organization that represents elected officials of the various peoples o…
Speaking today under agenda item 45, entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development”, I should like to associate myself with the statement made by Costa Rica on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. My country’s contribution will consequently be based on certain th…
At this review of the progress at mid-decade on implementation of resolution 45/217 of the General Assembly on the World Summit for Children, the delegation of Tunisia would like to comment on this issue.
First, I wish to recall that the goals set in 1990 at the World Summit for Children have had a…
My delegation would like to express its full support for the statement made this morning by Colombia on behalf of the non-aligned countries on the matter we are discussing today.
We welcome with satisfaction the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization. We thank him warmly fo…
I would like, first of all, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month and to wish you every success in the accomplishment of your important task. My congratulations go also to your predecessor, Ambassador Alfredo Lopes Cabral of Guinea-Bissau, …
Allow me first of all to convey to Mr. Razali Ismail my sincere and heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of his election to the presidency of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. I am convinced that thanks to his wise and able leadership and his extensive experience in the field of …
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to say how pleased the Tunisian delegation is to see you presiding over the Security Council. Your ability and experience, combined with an in-depth knowledge of international problems, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, are guarantees of effective action in sup…
The convening of this emergency session of the General Assembly to consider the grave developments in Lebanon is in itself an expression of the grave concern of the whole world over the war which has been raging for almost two weeks.
The Lebanese people, represented by His Excellency Mr. Elias Hrao…
First, I would first like to express my thanks to all those who mobilized to organize today’s meeting, in which we are discussing and analysing a subject vital to all our countries: the link between public administration and development. I would also like to express my appreciation for the quality o…
The Security Council is meeting for the second time in one
Peace in the Middle East is indivisible. That is a fact that we have learned through the bitter experiences of the Israeli-Arab conflicts over recent years.
Today we are experiencing another tragedy in Lebanon, where the cycle of violence …
