I wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report “An Agenda for development”. This report is particularly welcome as it goes beyond the preliminary report issued by the Secretary-General earlier this year in that it not only spells out the rationale for an agenda for development and identifies t…
It gives me great pleasure to address the General Assembly as we review for the first time the outcome of the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo just over two months ago. May I at the outset take this opportunity to thank President Hosni Mubarak, the Government and…
Let me at the outset lend my delegation’s support to the statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Indonesia on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
Clearly, the intention in the Charter of our Organization is that the Security Council should be fully accountable to the Gen…
Zimbabwe has stated on numerous occasions, both in the General
We would like to reiterate our view that universal economic measures against any State should be imposed only by collective enforcement action through the United Nations. In the absence of any such enforcement action, all countries shou…
A few days ago the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe, Mr. Nathan Shamuyarira, conveyed to Mr. Amara Essy of Côte d’Ivoire the felicitations of our delegation on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this, its forty-ninth session. I echo those sentiments and pl…
My delegation congratulates you personally, Sir, as well as your country, Côte d’Ivoire, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. Your election is testimony to the role you and your country have played in international relations. We are confident that the Uni…
This is an extremely auspicious occasion not only for South Africa and the southern Africa region but also for the African continent and the world.
For South Africa, re-admission into the family of nations means the acceptance by the international community that their long and difficult struggle fo…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and by saying how
My delegation would also like to extend a most warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, the First Executive Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, and his delega…
My Head of State, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, has already expressed our pleasure at seeing you, Sir, preside over the affairs of the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Allow me, nevertheless, the honour and privilege, as Chairman of the Group of African States for the month of Octobe…
On 21 August 1989 the Organization of African Unity’s Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa met in Harare, Zimbabwe, and issued a statement on the question of South Africa which came to be known as the Harare Declaration on South Africa. That historic Declaration was subsequently endorsed by the Heads…
It gives me great pleasure to be able to participate in the discussion on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU). I should like, in that regard, to convey our warm appreciation to the Secretary-General for the two reports on this subject that are before us…
I wish to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for the report before us on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations (A/48/536) prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 46/182 and 47/168. As natural disasters and other emer…
Allow me to begin by expressing our appreciation to His Excellency Ambassador Elaraby of Egypt for his statement on behalf of the African States and to His Excellency Ambassador Jaramillo of Colombia for the statement he made on behalf of the Group of 77.
Let me express our sincere appreciation to …
I should like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for the tribute that has been paid at this meeting to the memory of the late President of the Republic of Burundi, His Excellency Mr. Melchior Ndadaye.
Allow me, on behalf of the African Group, to express to our colleagues in the delegation of …
Africa has endorsed the candidature of Rwanda from the central Africa region to fill one of the two non-permanent seats in the Security Council to be vacated on 31 December 1993. However, the same cannot be said for the west Africa region. Hence both Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria are candidates to fill …
My delegation expresses its sincere
appreciation to the Secretary-General for his tireless endeavours over the
past year, since we last debated the question of Palestine in the Assembly.
His reports covering Palestinian refugee problems in higher education,
displacement, ration distribution, pro…
Zimbabwe, a country striving to be an
important collaborator with disabled persons, considers the special plenary
meetings on issues relating to the disabled to be among the most important
events held by the United Nations this year. We should like to express our
appreciation to the Government o…
When, three days ago, the Security
Council adopted its resolution 777 (1992), whose provisions are now reflected
in draft resolution A/47/L.1, on which the General Assembly is about to take a
vote, Zimbabwe expressed a number of fundamental concerns. Since then, my
delegation has listened very c…
I should like, at the outset to
congratulate His Excellency Mr. Stoyan Ganev, Peputy Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, on his unanimous election to the presidency of
the General Assembly of the United Nations at its the forty-seventh session.
His election is recognition of his dip…
I should like to begin by paying a tribute
to my brother, Major-General Joseph Garba, Minister of State of Nigeria, for the
most s k i l l e d manner in which he has piloted the affairs of the forty-fourth session
of the General Assembly. Moreover, I should like to congratulate him on his
presid…
