I wish to express my sincere appreciation for the manner in which the President has been conducting our work. His statement at the conclusion of the general debate aptly reflected the mood of the deliberations of the Assembly.
I would like to express our sincere thanks to the Secretary-General for …
Our fifty years of experience in international peace and security, development, democracy and human rights prove beyond any doubt that development, especially sustainable development, is the key to the general well-being of the people of this world. It is now clear that without economic growth and d…
The approval of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development by consensus was an important achievement. The Cairo Conference firmly established the link between population and sustainable development. It also made it very clear that the empowerment of women w…
It is a special pleasure for me to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Amara Essy, Foreign Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, on his unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. We are confident that under his able leadership the deliberations of this session will com…
Today is a historic day. Twenty years ago South Africa was debarred from participating in the General Assembly of the United Nations. Twenty years later - today - South Africa has returned to its seat in the General Assembly. This is a great change. This change has occurred not just in South Africa,…
It is a special privilege for all of us now to speak on agenda item 38, "Elimination of apartheid and establishment of united, democratic and non-racial South Africa". It is heartening to see that the political situation in South Africa has at long last emerged into an environment of hope and aspira…
Nepal has been a staunch supporter of the Middle East Conference, launched in Madrid in 1991. We have been supportive of the painstaking consultations undertaken by the sponsors to move the process forward at a quicker pace. My delegation therefore fully shares the view that the signing of the Decla…
Nepal was one of the countries which responded to the request by the Secretary- General to Member States to transmit to him views on possible review of the membership of the Security Council pursuant to General Assembly resolution 47/62 of 11 December 1992. I wish to enumerate some of the basic cons…
I have the pleasure to extend to Mr. Ganev the
warm congratulations of the delegation of Nepal on his unanimous election to
the presidency of the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly. We are
happy to have an eminent person like him, with wide experience and skill, to
guide our deliberat…
