Allow me first of all to thank the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for her comprehensive introduction of the report on the activities of the Tribunal from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, contained in document A/54/315.
My delegation attaches great importance to the work of …
Allow me at the outset to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Mr. Stephen Schwebel, for his very clear and lucid introduction of the report on the activities of the International Court of Justice for the period 1 August 1998 to 31 July 1999, contained in document A/54/4. I wou…
I welcome this opportunity to consider the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. I wish to thank the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, the President of the Council for this month, for presenting the report.
My delegation attaches great importance to the ac…
My delegation associates itself with the statement made by Ambassador Insanally, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Guyana to the United Nations, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. This statement adequately expressed the positions on social development, including the world social situa…
This is the third debate on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in five days, the first having taken place in the Security Council last Friday. This attests to the gravity of the subject, but, more
The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those of the neighbouring countries want peac…
Allow me, first of all, to deliver to you, Sir, to the Secretary-General, and to all the members of the Security Council, warm and fraternal greetings from President Chiluba and the people of Zambia.
Let me begin by thanking you and all the other members of the Security Council for allowing my dele…
I should like to take the floor to make an explanation of vote in relation to draft resolution G, contained in document A/53/584 and entitled “Nuclear testing”.
Since the vote on this draft resolution in the First Committee my delegation has received fresh instructions to abstain in the voting on t…
I would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his report contained in document A/53/320 and its two addenda. I am equally grateful to the Cuban delegation for introducing draft resolution A/53/L.6, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by …
Let me start by congratulating Mr. Didier Opertti on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session. In the same breath, I thank his predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko of Ukraine, for the able manner in which he conducted the work of the fifty-second sess…
The item we have been seized of since yesterday is of vital importance to all of us gathered in this Hall. Maintenance of international peace and security is the responsibility of all peace-loving members of the international community. It is in this context that all of us hold vital stakes in the r…
Let me begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his report contained in document A/52/513 on “Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies”. The report is very informative and should go a long way towards facilitating ou…
My delegation is a sponsor of the draft resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In this regard, I endorse the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Spain as he introduced the draft resolution under consideration.
We can see from that repor…
I am pleased to convey the congratulations of the Zambian delegation to His Excellency Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko on his election as President of the fifty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly. This session is especially important in that it is meant to give impetus to the ongoing negoti…
I, too, would like to offer my regrets for not having taking the floor at the time when I should have done so. Having said that, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, for having presided over the business of the Council so effectively during the month of June. I also wish to offer my congratulation…
I would like to join my colleagues who have spoken before me in congratulating you, Mr President, on the magnificent leadership you are providing the Council for the month of December. Permit me also to acknowledge the able manner in which your predecessor, the Ambassador and Permanent Representativ…
I should like to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this moment this morning, enabling members of the Assembly to remember and to pay tribute to Ambassador Paul Lusaka, who peacefully passed away on 9 November 1996, in Washington, D.C., after a long illness.
Ambassador Lusak…
The issue of the American embargo against Cuba has been around for more than 37 years. This means that the origins of the issue date back to the politics of the cold war, characterized by global tension and East-West ideological rivalry.
The continuation of the embargo against Cuba is therefore a s…
The delegation of Zambia would like to share its perspective on this important agenda item: the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF). We are grateful to the Secretariat for the reports of the Secretary-General on this item. Our appreciation also goes to Amb…
Mr. President, I join other delegations in expressing appreciation for the leadership you are providing to the Security Council during the month of October.
The Zambian delegation shares the grave concerns of the international community about the critical situation in Angola. We are particularly co…
It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to warmly congratulate you on your unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-first regular session. Your election is a tribute not only to your country, Malaysia, but also to you personally. I am aware that you bring t…
