My delegation has the honour to be a sponsor of draft resolution A/63/L.42, entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”. We also have the honour to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, draft resolution A/63/L.43, entitled “Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementat…
My delegation has the honour to be a sponsor of draft resolution A/61/L.30, entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”. We also have the honour to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, draft resolution A/61/L.38, on sustainable fisheries.
This year’s draft resolution on sustainable fisheries comes at…
My delegation has the honour to be a sponsor of draft resolution A/64/L.18, entitled “Oceans and the Law of the Sea”. We also have the honour to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, draft resolution A/64/L.29, on sustainable fisheries.
I should like to begin by expressing appreciation for the spir…
In our st&:'.tement during the debate on th~s agenda item [66th meeting], we reiterated our profound and long- standing opposition to apartheid. We also explained why we believe our policy of constructive engage- ment is more likely to bring about positive changes in South Afdt;a than" is the policy…
The delegation of the United States supports the humanitarian purpose ofthe draft resolution before us. We could have joined and would have wished to join in a cons~nsus in favour of a straightforward humani- tarian appeal by the Genera! Assembly for clemency for these condemned men. Unfortunately, …
Thanks to the General Assembly, fully half a billion disabled people ofthe world can now look forward to a brighter future. By proclaiming 1981 International Year of Disabled Persons, the United Nations aroused the hopes and aspirations of this significant segment of humanity. The continuing vision …
I am finding it increasingly difficult to discover what side I am on.
66. When the President originally read out the amendment as sub-amended and sub-amended, he did
In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Austlalia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Bhut…
The United States wishes to propose a sub-amendment to the amendments proposed by Iraq, which deals with the very serious matter of attacks on installations that are peacefully engaged in the conduct of nuclear activities.
13. We propose that the General Assembly should state an important buth in a…
Again this year the United States supports the credentials of Democratic Kampuchea on tech-
157. On 30 September last, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, in addressing the Assembly put succinctly Kampuchea's plea to the United Nations: "We ask but restoration of our national sover- eignty and our territorial…
Like the delegation of Turkey, the United States delegation was sh\lCked by the statement made today by the ~inister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden. His discussion of Central America was the most appalling of all. He said Hit is obvious that a foreign Power -the United States-plays a crucial role whe…
I must take strong exception to the diatribe delivered this evening by the representative of Nicaragua and to the earlier parody of it by Grenada. In 1981 in the general debate the representative of Nicaragua charged that the United States was preparingto invade Nicaragua. In the Security Council du…
The draft resolution before us was tabled just a few hours ago. At the urging of the sponsors, members of this body have been obliged to take positions on the actual facts of the case in question, which are scarcely known. Moreover, what the United States Government does know about this case suggest…
Recently, in the United States statement on the question of Palestine, the representative of my Government said:
"The United Nations is more than a weapon in one side's political armory. It must not align itself with forces working against a final settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbours b…
The United States delegation voted in favour of this draft resolution in Committee. We did so because we believed the text contained an objective mandate which should per- mit the Special Committee to get on with its sensitive and important tas15 in an objective manner. Unfortunately, the Sixth Comm…
The United States has voted against all six of these draft reso- lutions. In our view, all of them ate unbalanced, unfair and biased and none of them contributes to' bringing the achievement of legitimate Palestinian rights any closer to practical reality.
116. We have opposed the call for continua…
In conclusion, I would say that it is the response of the United Nations and States around the world which will help determine whether these attacks continue and prolif- erate, or are halted forever.
The Assembly has just adopted one of the most important- perhaps the most important-resolutions before the thirty- sixth session of 'the General Assembly. Though this sim- ple, procedural resolution merely extends the mandate of the Group of Experts to Investigate Reports on the Al- leged Use of Che…
This draft resolution is improper and disruptive. The item was before the First Committee, where Iraq, as its represen- tative just stated, joined in the consensus for a procedural resolution on the Middle East nuclear-free zone.
52. If there were merit to the ideas contained in the draft resolutio…
To- day, as we address ourselves to an issue whose history is virtually coterminous with that of the United Nations it- self, my Government wishes to reaffirm its continuing .concern for the fate of the 1.6 million Palestinian refugees registered by UNRWA in Jordan, the Syrian Arab Re- public, Leban…
Many representatives here realize that, despite inequities and the sometimes irregular patterns of foreign investment, for- eign participation in their countries' economies has bene- fited their peoples greatly. It seems inconsistent, there- fore, to declare in the General Assembly that those same a…
