I am sorry to take even less than five minutes of the Assembly's time at this late stage, but I believe I owe it to the delegations
190. Mr. Herzog is not now in this hall, but I hope that the representatives of Israel who are seatedhere will convey this message in clear terms to the Chairman of th…
Though the hour is late, the subject wehave been discussing overthe last two days is one of such urgency, importanceand relevance that I do not apologize to this Assembly if I take up a few minutes of its time to speak on behalf of my Government and, as representative of the current Chairman of the …
I speak this morn- ing with much pleasure-and indeed with a sense of appreciation of the honour conferred on the delegation of Sri Lanka-to present to this Assembly draft resolution A/31/L.21 and Add.l, concerning the admission of new Members to the United Nations, in this case, the Socialist Republ…
Mr. President, I appear before you and this Assembly this afternoon to introduce, on behalf of the delegations of India, Malta, ?enegal, Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka, amendments, contained In document A/31/L.2S, to draft resolution A/31/L.24, which has just been introduced by the representative of Israe…
It gives me great pIeasure to be here this moming to welcome the People's Republic of Angola to join us as a Member of this intemational brotherhood of the United Nations. The delegation of Sri Lanka was honoured to be one of the approximately 70 sponsors of the draft resolution-which was adopted a …
Although the hour is late, I did not wish to forgo this opportunity of saying a few words of appreciation for the remarkable sense of cooperation and for the efforts of some delegations, particularly our colleagues from Bangladesh and India. I have asked to be allowed to speak not only on behalf of …
I speak this afternoon on behalf of a country which in many ways ,is comparable to the island of Cyprus, whose problems we are discussing here under item 118 of the agenda of this Assembly. Sri Lanka, like Cyprus, is a small island; Sri Lanka, like Cyprus, has, I believe, been blessed by nature; the…
Sri Lanka wishes to speak before this Assembly this morning on the question of the Comorian island of Mayotte. We do so with considerable awareness of the fact that the question at issue is one which, in our opinion, goes to the root of the concept of self-determination and the preservation of the t…
