Allow me at the outset to extend to you my delegation’s congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August. It is a pleasure to see the manner in which you have been discharging the heavy responsibilities entrusted to this Council. We equally pay tribute to y…
My delegation extends hearty congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July. I also wish to use this opportunity to express my delegation’s appreciation to Ambassador Nabil Elaraby for his excellent stewardship of the Council in the mo…
It is with great sadness that my delegation joins other members of the United Nations who spoke earlier to express our shock at the ongoing military confrontation in Lebanon, which has resulted in the killing of innocent civilians, including women and children, and the destruction of property and in…
On behalf of the African Group, I would like to pay tribute to the late King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, whose untimely and tragic death in a road accident on 15 January robbed the Kingdom of a very energetic and far-sighted monarch. During his reign Lesotho became an active member of southern Africa,…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to convey its sincere appreciation to Ambassador Juan Somavía for the sterling role he played in making the World Summit for Social Development a success. Likewise, our profound gratitude goes to the people and the Government of Denmark for hosting the Summit.
My…
At the outset, my delegation would like to associate itself with the statement made by the representative of the Philippines on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. We fully support the views expressed in that statement. Let me also take this opportunity to commend the Secretary- General for his inf…
On behalf of my delegation, I wish to express our appreciation to the Chairman 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 Related to the Security Council, Ambassador Essy, as well as to its t…
Allow me to commend the Secretary-General on his report in document A/50/401 and A/50/401/Add.1, dated 20 September 1995 and 20 October 1995, respectively, in
The implementation of resolution 49/9 of 26 October 1994, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo impos…
It is a great honour for me to speak on behalf of my delegation, since my Foreign Minister is currently campaigning in the impending presidential and parliamentary elections.
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the historic fiftieth session of the United Nations Gene…
At the outset, allow me to extend my appreciation to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judge Khalida Rachid Khan, and the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Patrick Lipton Robinson, for presenting their respe…
I should like, at the outset, to express my delegation’s support for the statement made by Ambassador Slaheddine Abdellah of Tunisia, who spoke on behalf of the African countries, and for the intervention of Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra of Algeria, who spoke on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. Tan…
It is an honour and a privilege for me to address the Assembly on behalf of my Government on agenda item 35, the important item on the law of the sea. This is a truly historic occasion.
In December 1982 the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea was signed by 119 delegations on the first day i…
I wish to express my delegation’s sincere appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General contained in document A/49/398 of 20 September 1994, concerning agenda item 24, now being considered by the General Assembly.
Like last year’s report, this one contains replies from Member States on the im…
It gives me much pleasure to participate in this very important debate on desertification. May I express at the outset my delegation’s satisfaction at the speedy and efficient conclusion in Paris last June of the negotiation process of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, which paved the way…
Tanzania has always looked forward to the day when South Africa would resume its full participation in the work of the United Nations General Assembly. Happily, that day has arrived. This Assembly has today voted by consensus to return a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa to the communit…
Allow me to join the other speakers in expressing my delegation’s profound congratulations to the first democratically elected President of South Africa, Mr. Nelson Mandela, and to the entire South African people for having finally achieved their political emancipation from the bondage of apartheid.…
Although my delegation voted in favour of the resolution, we are deeply troubled by certain aspects of it. That is particularly the case with regard to operative paragraph 19, which in effect calls for the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the United Nations.
The Tanzanian delegation is also troubled by…
The remarkable progress made in the last few years, and particularly since 1989, towards the eradication of apartheid and the establishment of a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa, can be gauged from the nature of the debate in the Assembly, the number and content of the resolutions
The…
As we advance towards the end of the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, it should be a matter of concern to all of us that the efforts to achieve that objective seem to be slackening. The small number of delegations which have sought to participate in this debate is one indicat…
The vision of a new Middle East which the leader of the Observer Mission of Palestine, Mr. Farouk Kaddoumi, shared with us in his address at the start of the debate on this item yesterday is one which many people have dreamed of but which few expected to see realized in their lifetimes. For the prob…
