As we express our gratitude to Ambassador Takasu for his work, we would like at the outset to stress the importance of the documents that have been submitted; the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (A/63/92) and the report on the Peacebuilding Fund (A/63/218).
In the last two years we have witn…
Uruguay, one of the founding States of the United Nations, sees the fundamental principles of its foreign policy fully reflected in the Charter of this Organization.
For that reason, we believe it important at the outset to reassert the validity of those principles in the present international cont…
The delegation of Uruguay would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on convening this thematic debate today in the Council. It has made it possible for us to listen to the views of many delegations for whom the working methods of the Council is a matter of great importance. We say this in the f…
Uruguay associates itself with the statement made by the delegation of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. We welcome the initiative to organize this meeting and to invite the Secretary- General to brief the General Assembly on the revised comprehensive framework for action d…
Our delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by the Minister from Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, as well as the statement delivered by the Minister of Mexico on behalf of the Rio Group.
We also express our gratitude to the Secretary- General and agree w…
In the 18 years since the adoption of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, the social space given by our countries to children and adolescents is full of controversy. Much progress has been made in legal terms, in social policies and speeches that come from the political system, and yet these…
It is an honour for me to come here today, on behalf of all the young people and adolescents of Uruguay. This message is for young people like me. We are in danger of starting the use of drugs, and then it is difficult to get out of it. Drugs are not a solution to one’s problems. One has to stop, th…
I would like to tell you something about children living on the street. Children in my country who are living on the street, those who work, those who beg, are unable to study. They are mistreated, not only by their parents but by society at large. They are rejected by some of the educational instit…
To begin with, I would like to express the solidarity of the Government and the people of Uruguay with the people of Algeria with regard to the events that took place yesterday.
The delegation of Uruguay also wanted to take this opportunity to have adolescents and young people contribute their life…
We wish to offer Uruguay’s gratitude for the excellent efforts by the Presidents of the General Assembly at its sixty-first and sixty-second sessions and also to the co-facilitators, the Permanent Representatives of San Marino and Senegal. We wish to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Par…
It is an honour for me to make this statement on behalf of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) and its associated States: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Let me first congratulate Mr. Kerim on his election as President of the Genera…
I wish to congratulate Mr. Srgjan Kerim on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- second session.
On behalf of my country, Uruguay, I would like to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and to all of those
who today are paying their respects and are celebrating this Internati…
At the outset, our delegation congratulates you, Sir, on your election. We are committed to supporting you throughout your mandate.
In the General Committee, Uruguay voted in favour of adopting the provisional agenda of the sixty- second session and, in that connection, the non-inclusion of the iss…
First of all, Madam President, my delegation wishes to thank you for taking the initiative to convene these meetings, which enable all of us to provide initial comments on the item before the Assembly. The delegation of Uruguay also notes with great satisfaction the submission of the report of the S…
Today’s debate on the work of the Peacebuilding Commission is most timely. The establishment of the Commission represents one of the most concrete and important achievements of the current reform process of the Organization. The creation of the new peacebuilding architecture — the Commission, its Su…
Regarding agenda item 9, “Report of the Security
Council”, I would like, first of all, to thank the Permanent Representative of Qatar, Nassir Al-Nasser, in his capacity as President of the Security Council for this month, for his introduction of document A/61/2. Unfortunately, we have not been able…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of Uruguay with regard to the report (A/61/217) introduced this morning by the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the activities, investigations and proceedings that the Court has carried out during this recent period.
We note with pleasure t…
Madam President, I bring to you the greeting of the people and Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to this Assembly. This Assembly is the broadest and most representative and important forum in the world today.
Madam President, may I express my personal satisfaction at seeing you exercise…
With regard to agenda item 9, concerning the report that the Security Council must submit to the General Assembly, we thank the Permanent Representative of Indonesia, President of the Security Council for this month, for introducing document A/62/2.
The report is clearly useful in many ways, in tha…
At the outset, I wish to thank the presidency for the convening of this debate, which has given the General Assembly an opportunity to deliberate once again on an issue of such importance for the entire United Nations membership, thus helping us to take a concrete step forward towards what Uruguay r…
