I have the honour to speak on this item in my capacity as chairman of the group of African States for the month.
56. Let me begin by reaffirming Africa's unequivocal commitment to and faith in the purposes and principles of the United Nations, as enshrined in its Charter.
57. Co-operation between …
In normal circum- stances this debate would have been considered ill-timed and unnecessary. It would have been passible to persuade us to be patient, to allow the five Western States to re- suscitate their three-year-old initiative and to sell their proposals to the front-line States and the United …
The past three years have seen what some of us had thought was a positive movement forward in the negotiations for Namibian independence. Unfortunately, as we meet here today Namibia remains unliberated; its people are caught up in a vicious "catch 22" situation. They have become the constant subjec…
For reasons which are well known to all members of the Assembly, my delegation would like to register its abstentions on operative paragraph 6 of draft resolution A/35/ L.I3 and Add.l, operative paragraphs 2 (b) and (d) of draft resolution A/35/L.17 and Add.1 and operative paragraph 1 (d) of draft r…
During the months of July and August of this year, the front-line States and the five Western States of the contact group successfully negotiated on all the issues that had been blocking progress towards implementation of Secu- rity Council resolution 435 (1978). In August, we in- formed the world t…
