This is a historic moment ripe with opportunities and challenges. The last hundred years have seen tremendous developments in science and technology, and man has made significant progress. Yet at the same time the majority of humankind still does not enjoy the fruits of that progress, for a number o…
I thank you, Sir. My delegation is delighted to see you providing over this session and would like to commend the delegation of Jamaica for hosting this important discussion. We welcome once again this opportunity to discuss in the Security Council the most devastating war faced by mankind during pe…
On behalf of the Political Committee and on my own behalf, I wish to express our gratitude to you, Mr. President, to the members of the Security Council delegation who visited our region last month, and to the Security Council as a whole for the invitation it extended to the Political Committee to c…
I would like to start by thanking you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to address the Council on this very important subject, HIV/AIDS. In the interest of brevity, I will try as much as possible to summarize my speech.
Since Uganda has been cited as one of the countries that has made some progre…
I am privileged once again to take the floor to address the representatives here assembled on a subject of such immense importance to Africa in particular, and the international community in general. I am referring to the question of peace, security and development. Eighteen months have passed since…
We are meeting at a time when the need to strengthen the capacity of the United Nations for the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance has never been greater. The recent catastrophic earthquakes in Turkey, Greece and Taiwan, inter alia, have once again pointed to the immense nee…
Uganda's position on the internal conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is well known. It has been clearly enunciated here in the General Assembly, in the Security Council, in the Organization of African Unity and elsewhere. Ugandan troops are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a …
On behalf of the delegation of Uganda, I should like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab and all the Vice-Presidents on their election to guide the deliberations of the General Assembly at its last session of this century. I also thank the President of the General Assembly at its fif…
I exercise my right of reply to contribute not to the negative tone of this debate, but to a positive one, because that is the wish of my Government. Hence, I shall reiterate Uganda’s position, namely, that Uganda is committed to the search for a peaceful solution to the war in the Democratic Republ…
I wish to thank the representative of New Zealand, who did a wonderful job of coordinating the item on which the Assembly has just taken a decision. My delegation has a particular interest in this item and would therefore like to make some brief comments. We are particularly happy to note that the G…
I wish to make a correction to paragraph 5 of the draft resolution recommended in paragraph 6 of the report of the Fifth Committee. The reference to “paragraph 3 above” should be changed to “paragraph 4 above”.
As we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and as we end today the Human Rights Year which began on 10 December 1997, it is fitting to recognize with satisfaction the long journey and the progress that has been made since 1948, when the General Assembly …
The Uganda delegation welcomes once again the opportunity to address the plenary of the fifty-third session of the General Assembly on the very important subject of Security Council reform. Before I proceed, allow me to look back to where we began.
Formally, the United Nations Security Council was …
The Uganda delegation welcomes the Secretary-General’s progress report on the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the
African development continues to be a major concern for many African countries and for their development partners. The United Nations New Agenda for the Development …
I would like to make a few remarks for the record in response to the statement just made by the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Contrary to the allegations which have just been made by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda has never invaded that country. Ugandan troop…
At the outset, I wish to convey the apologies of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who was supposed to address the Assembly. He is unable to come to New York because of other pressing State duties. The United Nations has been at the forefront of efforts to tackle problems of international peace and …
Let me begin by associating my delegation with the statement so eloquently made by the Chairman of the Group of 77 and China, Ambassador Daudi Mwakawago. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the Chairman of the Fifth Committee, Mr. Anwarul Karim Chowdhury of Bangladesh, and his Bureau, fo…
Permit me, on behalf of the Uganda delegation, to express our pleasure at seeing Mr. Udovenko preside over the General Assembly at its fifty- second session. Allow me also to pay a special tribute to his predecessor, Ambassador Razali Ismail of Malaysia, for the outstanding manner in which he discha…
I wish to announce that Uganda withdraws its candidature.
In view of the fact that new ballot papers will need to be prepared to take into account the withdrawals that have just been announced, I propose to suspend the meeting for 10 minutes. May I take it that the Assembly agrees to that proposal?
Allow me first of all to thank Ambassador Hisashi Owada, Permanent Representative of Japan and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, for the successful conduct of the …
