I should like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for your introductory remarks and for your reference to your opening statement to the General Assembly, in which you so clearly signalled the importance of the discussion we are beginning today. I should also like to express appreciation for t…
General Assembly resolution 47/62, adopted late in 1992, which requested the Secretary-General to invite Member States to submit written comments on a possible review of the membership of the Security Council, clearly indicated the vital importance of this agenda item, not only for the Council itsel…
May I begin by expressing the great emotion and satisfaction I feel in taking part in this event in the General Assembly Hall, the political home of the United Nations. What a great joy it is for the international community to welcome in this supreme forum a united, democratic and non-racial South A…
Today the General Assembly begins its consideration of the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council. We all know that this question is crucial for the future of the United Nations. It is not a matter of merely discussing the practical aspects of …
The report of the Secretary-General on the item before us today, "The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development" (A/48/586), points out in paragraph 2 that, for a decade …
When we spoke
in the Assembly last year on the policy of apartheid of the Government of
South Africa, an agenda item of vital importance to the international
community, my delegation said that it was hopeful, as a result of certain
positive signs which were then beginning to emerge and which poi…
