We are embarking upon a challenging
and equally promising post-Rio road, and the forty-seventh session of the
United Hations General Assembly is called upon to take the first steps
designed to fulfil the obligations that the nations of the world collectively
undertook in the documents adopted at…
It is a distinct honour and privilege for me in my capacity as President of the Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies to report to the present session of the General Assembly on the outcome of the
Conference held from 10 to 12 September this year in the city of Ulaanbaatar. …
It gives me great pleasure to address this high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly which is considering the timely issue of rendering all-round support to an extremely important new initiative of the African leaders, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
As many may recal…
Mongolia welcomes wholeheartedly the newest member of the United Nations family, Switzerland, a country that has a long-standing association with the United Nations as its second largest headquarters. We also look forward to welcoming East Timor, the youngest member of the international community.
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Allow me at the outset to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations. Allow me also to express my confidence that under your skilful stewardship this session of the General Assembly will successfully accomplish it…
General Assembly resolution 47/181, “An agenda for development”, adopted nearly two years ago, set in motion a process of comprehensive re-evaluation of the established patterns and the traditional philosophy of development. We expect that
My delegation expresses its high appreciation of the Secret…
At the outset, I wish to express my delegation’s sincere gratitude to Ambassador Bo Kjellén of Sweden, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, for his outstanding contribution to the elaboration of the International Convention to Combat Desertification. We owe our gratitude also to …
My delegation fully associates itself with the statement delivered earlier on this agenda item by the representative of Indonesia, on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, and endorses the points raised therein. The purpose of my statement is to highlight the issues of particular interest to my delega…
It is with a sense of profound sorrow and pain that I speak today as Chairman of the Group of Asian States Members of the United Nations.
On behalf of the members of the Asian Group, I extend our deepest condolences to the Governments and peoples of Burundi and Rwanda upon the tragic deaths of Pres…
This is the first time the General
Assembly has taken up the issue of disability in plenary meetings. We applaud
the fact that it is doing so now and consider it to be a recognition by the
international community of the urgency and acuteness of this pressing
problem. The presence among us of rep…
