The United States welcomes the proposal to explore opportunities to make greater use of public meetings of the Security Council, including meetings at which non-members offer views on matters under consideration. This idea is a further important step in the Security Council’s efforts to reform its w…
The United States delegation will oppose the proposed motion for no action on the French amendment. We believe that the French amendment will at least temper an inappropriate use of the International Court of Justice, a respected legal institution, for what can only be seen as political purposes. Th…
My delegation was pleased to join others in support of this resolution, which recognizes the important work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The diverse programmes of the IAEA serve the interests of the international community in many ways. Countless individual lives on all continen…
In my capacity as representative of the host country, I should like to extend very warm congratulations to the Republic of Palau as it becomes the newest Member of the United Nations family. As the former Administering Authority of the Republic of Palau under the Trusteeship Agreement, the United St…
It is the position of my delegation that the amendments that have been submitted in document A/49/L.22 are not accurate. A review of the entire report from which they are drawn reveals instances in which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) determined that Iraqi officials either had been le…
I am here today to speak frankly about the subject of financing United Nations peace operations. My Government strongly supports effective and well-planned peace operations because they enhance international security, stability and democracy. My country is the largest financial contributor to such o…
I am pleased to have this opportunity to express my Government’s strong support for this important initiative, the new Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel.
The completion of the negotiation of this instrument, together with its adoption today, is one of the key accom…
Let me congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency. I can attest that Ambassador Albright is most happy to be able to pass the reins of the presidency into your hands. We are sure you will meet the challenges of your office admirably, and you can count on our full support and assista…
On behalf of the Government of the United States of America and as a representative of that Government, but also as Co-Chairman of the Atlanta Committee to organize the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996, I am very pleased to return to this Hall to share with the Assembly this draft resolution on the …
The United States may claim with justification to be the champion of the independence of the Baltic States. During decades when this goal seemed a will-o’-the-wisp to many, my Government maintained in the words and substance of our policy that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were, and should be, indep…
My Government is pleased to be a sponsor of the draft resolution on the law of the sea (A/49/L.47) and to support its adoption. The United States has long been committed to the goal of a comprehensive and widely accepted treaty on the law of the sea. Failure in 1992 to achieve consensus on the regim…
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor the resolution on Afghanistan. This is a balanced resolution. It provides a rationale for emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan; and it sets forth an appropriate underpinning for peacemaking efforts of the United Nations special mis…
The United States welcomes this opportunity to discuss the revitalization and restructuring of the Economic and Social Council. This is a vital effort, central to our mutual concern in making the United Nations a more effective instrument for pursuit of our common interests. We appreciate the Secret…
The United States delegation would like to take this opportunity to explain its abstention in the voting on the draft resolution on this item.
Substantial changes have been offered in this resolution to a provision which constituted one of our principal concerns with resolutions on this subject in …
An occasion for reconciliation has been abused by a representative whose remarks were wrong in law and an insult to the Security Council: an insult to its members, who have consistently voted to sustain United Nations resolutions that sanction a State supporting terrorism, and an insult to the memor…
I should like to begin, Sir, by congratulating you on behalf of my delegation and on behalf, personally, of Ambassador Albright on the assumption of your responsibilities as President of the Security Council, and we look forward very much to working with you in the course of this month. I should als…
The United States is proud to co-sponsor the draft resolution which proclaims 1995 as World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War. The text calls for a special meeting of this body on 18 October next. It is fitting that the General Assembly should undertake a solemn c…
The United States is pleased to be a sponsor of draft resolution A/49/L.35. One need not have a very long memory to recall when discussions of draft resolutions on Central America in this body were contentious. That this is no longer the case reflects the extraordinarily positive developments and tr…
On behalf of my Government, I am pleased to note the dramatic improvement in the human rights climate in Haiti since the deployment of the multinational force in Haiti, on 19 September 1994. Because of the efforts of the multinational force, authorized by the Security Council in resolution 940 (1994…
We welcome the opportunity today to address the General Assembly on the all-too-timely subject of humanitarian assistance.
Since the adoption of General Assembly resolution 46/182, the international community has faced over 100 sudden natural disasters and over 25 complex socio-political emergencie…
