I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council in the very first month of Viet Nam’s current term as a member. I also thank you for convening this debate at the start of the year in which we observe seventy-fifth anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations…
I thank the President for convening this meeting so that we can all gather here for the twenty-eighth consecutive session to articulate our views on the agenda item entitled “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. We also thank Ambassador Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary- General; Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Ambassador Djani, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resoluti…
I thank the President for organizing today’s important debate. We appreciate the commitment of the delegation of Peru to the cause of counter-terrorism. We are grateful to the President for consistently highlighting the linkages of terrorism and organized crime in his work in the Security Council, e…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I also thank Mr. Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, and Ms. Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission,…
It is a privilege to see you, Sir, presiding over this important open debate. As a long-standing and traditional peacekeeper, we welcome your initiative.
We thank the Secretary-General and the briefers for their insights.
Peacekeeping today is in the domain of a vaguely defined no-man’s-land. It l…
We applaud France for convening this open debate during its presidency and
are grateful for its leadership in piloting resolution 2462 (2019), adopted today to combat terrorist financing.
Terrorism is a scourge that is tearing at the fabric of societies across the globe. It is a menace that is res…
We thank the delegation of Equatorial Guinea for thoughtfully bringing much- needed focus on an issue that reflects our collective
resolve to work together. We also thank the briefers for their informative submissions.
We join in commending this unique and ambitious effort, for which the whole con…
Climate change is an unprecedented challenge to global civilization. We therefore thank you, Mr. President, for providing an opportunity to articulate views on specific aspects of this overarching issue. We also thank the briefers for their perspectives.
India believes that climate action should be…
Peacekeeping is a shared responsibility, and all stakeholders therefore have to learn to cooperate with one another in a spirit of partnership. Since nearly 50 per cent of all United Nations peacekeeping operations have been conducted in Africa, we welcome the opportunity you have provided, Mr. Pres…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the members of the Group of Four — Brazil, Germany, Japan and my own country, India. We thank you, Madam President, for organizing this annual debate on an issue that remains central to the reform of the Organization. As the late former Secret…
I thank you, Madam President, for being here today and for setting the tone for the debate on the important issue of revitalizing the General Assembly.
India aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Algeria on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. We would like to e…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate on an issue that is germane for all of us. I also thank the Secretary-General, the representative of the President of the General Assembly and the Presidents of the Economic and Social Council and the International Court of Justice for thei…
The general debate always provides an unparalleled opportunity to hear our leaders’ views on the state of the world and the ability of the Organization to deal with the challenges we are facing. Hence, I begin by drawing upon what we heard.
In countless forms, we heard that armed conflicts and terr…
India, like other delegations, would like to warmly congratulate you, Madam, on your assumption of office as the President of the Assembly. We wish you success in fulfilling your important responsibilities.
Today, very early in the seventy-third session, we are faced with the need to decide by a vo…
I thank the United States presidency for having convened the present debate on the situation in Afghanistan. I also thank Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, for his thoughtful presentation; young Ramiz Bakhtiar, the first youth envoy of Afghanistan, for his passionat…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate and for providing an opportunity to address mediation, which is an important tool of diplomacy. I also thank the briefers for their interesting perspectives.
The notion of mediation reflects a long-standing principle of internatio…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this timely consideration of the situation in Afghanistan.
The focus of the international community on Afghanistan has been unremitting since the start of
this year. The Security Council visited Afghanistan in January. A ministerial debate o…
We meet today to address in this setting an issue that has been a long time in the making. The item on the agenda touches on differing philosophical bases of inter-State ties, varied historical experiences in the interpretation of key concepts and sharply divergent recent experiences in translating …
We thank the delegation of Poland for holding this open debate. I also thank the President for personally being present here today. We listened attentively to the remarks made by the Secretary-General on this issue. We also thank the other briefers for their valuable input, perspectives and recommen…
