The
Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit was a significant event that is bound to have an
outstanding effect on mankind's future in relation to sustainable development,
that issue which acquires special importance in view of its impact on the
options that are open to us for building a better future. Thou…
I should like at the outset to thank you, Sir, for your statements earlier at this meeting and at this morning’s official meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
A few weeks ago, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palesti…
Unlike the Israeli Prime Minister, who a few days ago told the Assembly that he had come to the United Nations from Jerusalem, I — a native son of the land — was not able to come here from Jerusalem, because East Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, still remains under Israeli occupation, despite th…
I have the honour to deliver the statement of President Mahmoud Abbas, who has had to remain at home, given the current difficult circumstances. It reads as follows.
“I address the General Assembly today as a representative of my people, conveying their message and carrying their pain, their hopes …
The situation in the Middle East remains a cause of grave concern for the entire international community. That region, the cradle of civilizations and a region of historical, geographic, religious and economic importance, continues to suffer from instability and war. This situation threatens to igni…
I wish to begin by sincerely thanking the sponsors of draft resolution S/2004/783, on which the Council has just voted: Algeria, Pakistan and Tunisia. I wish also to thank all the delegations that voted in favour of the
draft resolution. The Palestinian people and the other peoples of the region ap…
We congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency for this month and we pay tribute to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Spain.
Israel, the occupying Power, persists in committing war crimes and acts of State terrorism against the Palestinian people in the occupied Pale…
We are pleased to see you, Sir, the representative of the friendly country of Pakistan, presiding over the Security Council this month. Of course, we thank you for all your efforts.
Our thanks also go to Germany, last month’s President of the Council, and its Permanent Representative.
Allow me to …
I should like at the outset to express my sincere gratitude to you, Sir, for responding to the request to resume negotiations on the item entitled “Question of Palestine”. We thank you for your long-standing wise leadership. I also wish to thank the sponsors of the draft resolution contained in docu…
We would like to express our sincere and profound thanks to all States Members of the United Nations that supported today’s resolution. We thank in particular the sponsors of the resolution, including Malaysia, and the other States that supported it from the outset, such as the members of the Organi…
Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and your friendly country, Germany, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I should also like to congratulate the Permanent Representative of France for the able manner in which he presided over the Council…
I promise that my further statement will be brief. Palestine, of course, is not yet a Member of the United Nations; it is obviously not a member of the Security Council; and it is not my intention to defend the Council against undiplomatic attacks — undiplomatic to say the least. However, I feel the…
Today’s events are indeed regrettable. The Security Council was once again prevented, because of the twenty-eighth use of the veto by the United States on the question of the occupied Palestinian territories. I would say the Council was unable to assume its
responsibilities in the maintenance of in…
Mr. President, allow me, at the outset, to extend my congratulations to you and your friendly country, France, for your presidency of the Council this month. I wish to pay tribute, at the same time, to the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China for his presidency of the Council l…
At the outset, we have to admit that we did not quite understand the nature of the last statement made by the Israeli representative. We could not grasp the meaning of the right of reply because we did not know to what it was intended to reply. In any case, we believe also that the Israeli represent…
I wish to express our deep thanks to all delegations that supported the draft resolution regarding assistance to the Palestinian people (A/58/L.33/Rev.1), which was adopted a while ago by more than an overwhelming majority. My delegation would also like to thank all the
sponsors of that important G…
First of all, we would like to express our gratitude and deep appreciation to the many States that voted in favour of the important draft resolutions just adopted. In order to be brief, I would also like to thank beforehand the countries that will support the draft resolutions introduced under the a…
Before I start my statement today, I would like to make two remarks.
The first one is about the last speaker. Despite the disgust that I felt while he was giving his statement, I will try to stick to my statement and not turn it into a right of reply.
My second remark concerns the statement by the…
The General Assembly listened earlier to a statement by the Israeli representative that reflected the same old ideas and even the expressions used by occupiers and colonialists throughout history. The statement was also fraught with a number of basic lies, of which I shall cite three.
The first is …
We have just heard an intervention from someone who I am not sure is normal — I am not sure whether he was talking about the issue under consideration by the General Assembly, the issue I spoke on a few moments ago. Maybe this representative has a prepared statement, written previously, that he can …
