The United States warmly welcomes the Secretary-General’s excellent report containing recommendations on the Agenda for Development. It is a model of clarity, succinctness and comprehensiveness. More important than its commendable form, however, is its substantive stress on the absolute necessity of…
The United States notes that the question before us today is a bilateral issue. The United States, like any other nation, has the sovereign right to determine its bilateral relationships, including its trading partners.
We have made it clear, on many occasions, that reviewing our embargo depends up…
Despite the efforts of the United States and other countries, the global anti-personnel land-mine problem is getting worse. The simple fact is that more land-mines are deployed in armed conflicts every year than are removed by mine- clearance personnel. Some 64 countries are now littered with an est…
On behalf of my delegation, I want to commend you, Sir, and express our appreciation for the manner in which you have presided over the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly and for all the achievements it has made under your leadership.
The United States Government, together with our partne…
On behalf of the Government and people of the United States, I wish to extend sincere condolences to the people and Government of Chad and to the family of Ambassador Laoumaye Mekonyo Koumbairia.
I wish he could have been with us and lived to see the end of a difficult chapter in Chad’s history. It…
The United States is a leading supporter of international efforts to assist the troubled economies of Africa, and considers the resolution to contain many positive elements. However, in joining the consensus on it we feel obliged to clarify our position on two important points.
The first concerns t…
It is a great honour to address the General Assembly on the occasion of the forty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I should like to take this opportunity, on behalf of my Government, to congratulate the recipients of the United Nations human rights priz…
