I wish to add Zimbabwe’s voice to the expressions of thanks and appreciation to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his report on the follow up to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, contained in document A/58/323. I should also like to also associate myself with …
It is now common knowledge that HIV/AIDS continues to cause untold suffering among many nations in the world. Regrettably, our Southern African region has been the hardest hit by that pandemic. AIDS threatens to destroy all the progress that our young nations have made since our independence. And, a…
We congratulate you for assuming presidency of the Security Council for this month and wish you well in your endeavours. We would also like to extend through you, our gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador Belinga- Eboutou for the sterling work that he did in the Council during the past month.
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Through you, Sir, my delegation offers its profound condolences to the people and Government of Indonesia and to the families of all tourists who were cruelly killed and maimed by the cowardly and dastardly acts of terrorism. Once again, humanity has become a pawn of the work of terrorists in our mi…
Allow me, on behalf of the Group of African States, to congratulate Her Excellency Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. Sheikha Al-Khalifa brings with her a wealth of diplomatic experience. We are confident that under her abl…
Allow me, on behalf of the Africa Group, to welcome the new State of the Republic of Montenegro to this family of nations. We sincerely congratulate the Republic of Montenegro on becoming the 192nd Member of the United Nations and wish President Vujanović and the people of Montenegro well as the cou…
At the outset, Sir, let me congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month.
My delegation welcomes the convening of this open debate on the addendum to the report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of…
We are delighted to see you, Madam, presiding over these deliberations today. We are also delighted to see our brother and friend, Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari, whose report has enriched our minds today. Let me also recognize the presence of the honourable Minister here, João Bernardo de …
At the outset, let me congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. My delegation also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Léonard She Okitundu. We appreciate his ver…
Allow me to associate my delegation with those who have spoken before us in expressing our deep sense of shock and horror at the ghastly attacks against the Government of the United States, its people and all the peace-loving people of the world, by quoting from President Mugabe’s condolence message…
In the last few days, Sir, my delegation has had an opportunity to recognize your election to the presidency and to express our confidence in your leadership. We have likewise recognized the work of your predecessor, Ambassador Mahbubani.
I would like, in the same vein, to congratulate the members …
The positions as agreed by the members and declared by the parties are those positions that were declared, recorded and signed for on 8 April 2000 at Kampala. They are the positions that are found also in the Harare sub-plans. As far as the parties are concerned, there is no confusion as to which po…
I wish at the outset to congratulate my old friend, Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani of Singapore, on the excellent manner in which he conducted the work of the Security Council in January and for the invitation he extended to us, on behalf of the Security Council, to come to New York on this occasion. …
As a sponsor of agenda item 175 — the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict — my delegation has requested the floor to remind the member delegations that the days of the “no questions asked diamond-buying policy” are over.
My delegation welcomes the draft resolution before us and hopes that its ado…
I wish to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri of Finland on his election to the presidency of this historic session of the
General Assembly. I also take this opportunity to congratulate his predecessor, my dear brother and colleague, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, the Foreign Minister of Namibia, on a job well d…
Mr. Paul Robertson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Jamaica, we are delighted to see you in the presidency, although your presence today leads to the relegation of my friend, Ambassador Durrant, to the seat behind you. But we are delighted that you are here, and this is clearly a
demonstration of t…
The world has recently been through a highly expensive and largely uncoordinated exercise to eliminate the risk of some people losing some money, some places losing some data and some people disrupting their busy schedules. To some of us, in the real world, this only induces a sense of wonder that i…
It has been stated on several occasions that any reform of the United Nations system will be meaningless if the Security Council remains untouched. For Africa, these words are not far from the truth. It had been the hope of this delegation that, by the end of this millennium, substantive progress wo…
On 23 July 1999, the people of Africa received the terrible news of the passing away of King Hassan II of Morocco. On this solemn occasion, and on behalf of the African Group, I wish to convey to His Majesty Mohamed VI, King of Morocco, to his entire family and, indeed, to the people of Morocco my h…
