It gives me great honour to address this High-level Meeting on behalf of the African Group to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action at the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related In…
I associate myself with preceding speakers in thanking Mr. ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his excellent presentation of the Agency’s comprehensive report. My delegation expresses its appreciation for the Director General’s tireless efforts to improv…
Allow me to extend, on behalf of the people and Government of the Sudan, our heartfelt condolences to the Government and people of the Dominican Republic and to the families of the victims of the tragic American Airlines crash that took place earlier this week.
We would also like to express our con…
I would like to comment on paragraph 10. In this regard, we strongly support those delegations that have requested verbatim records of the round tables. But even if it is the President’s ruling that verbatim records will not be easy to produce, we think the last sentence of paragraph 10 is provocati…
As the General Assembly resumes its consideration of agenda item 59, I cannot at the outset fail to extend my thanks to President Udovenko's predecessor, Ambassador Razali Ismail, the Chairman of the Open-ended Working Group on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membersh…
In his statement today before this Assembly, the representative of the Eritrean regime made certain naive and absurd accusations against my country, and I take the floor in order to exercise my right of reply.
At the outset I would like to make it clear that the target of this response is the Eritr…
Following the adoption of draft resolution A/49/L.41/Rev.1 entitled “Emergency assistance to the Sudan”, my delegation wishes to thank all the delegations that sponsored that draft resolution, particularly our brethren in the African Group, as well as Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, the Islamic Republ…
Mr. Presidmt, Jet me first express my gratitude to you for inViting me to take a seat at the Council tahle in order that I might par- ticipate in the presenl'. rlehate,
3. At the outset, 1 wish to express my profound regret that we have been compelled to bring this grave situa- tion to the attentio…
