It is a pleasure for me to be here today to share ideas on the important subject of financing for development. My delegation aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Pakistan on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The Monterrey Consensus of 2002 launched a new partnership for…
My delegation would like to thank the President most sincerely for having invited the General Assembly to address the crucial question of the financial situation of the Organization. The Secretary-General of the United Nations has made several revealing presentations to the Assembly, including his r…
I wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report “An Agenda for development”. This report is particularly welcome as it goes beyond the preliminary report issued by the Secretary-General earlier this year in that it not only spells out the rationale for an agenda for development and identifies t…
It gives me great pleasure to address the General Assembly as we review for the first time the outcome of the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo just over two months ago. May I at the outset take this opportunity to thank President Hosni Mubarak, the Government and…
Let me at the outset lend my delegation’s support to the statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Indonesia on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
Clearly, the intention in the Charter of our Organization is that the Security Council should be fully accountable to the Gen…
Zimbabwe has stated on numerous occasions, both in the General
We would like to reiterate our view that universal economic measures against any State should be imposed only by collective enforcement action through the United Nations. In the absence of any such enforcement action, all countries shou…
This is an extremely auspicious occasion not only for South Africa and the southern Africa region but also for the African continent and the world.
For South Africa, re-admission into the family of nations means the acceptance by the international community that their long and difficult struggle fo…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and by saying how
My delegation would also like to extend a most warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, the First Executive Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, and his delega…
My Head of State, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, has already expressed our pleasure at seeing you, Sir, preside over the affairs of the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Allow me, nevertheless, the honour and privilege, as Chairman of the Group of African States for the month of Octobe…
On 21 August 1989 the Organization of African Unity’s Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa met in Harare, Zimbabwe, and issued a statement on the question of South Africa which came to be known as the Harare Declaration on South Africa. That historic Declaration was subsequently endorsed by the Heads…
It gives me great pleasure to be able to participate in the discussion on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU). I should like, in that regard, to convey our warm appreciation to the Secretary-General for the two reports on this subject that are before us…
Allow me to begin by expressing our appreciation to His Excellency Ambassador Elaraby of Egypt for his statement on behalf of the African States and to His Excellency Ambassador Jaramillo of Colombia for the statement he made on behalf of the Group of 77.
Let me express our sincere appreciation to …
I should like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for the tribute that has been paid at this meeting to the memory of the late President of the Republic of Burundi, His Excellency Mr. Melchior Ndadaye.
Allow me, on behalf of the African Group, to express to our colleagues in the delegation of …
Africa has endorsed the candidature of Rwanda from the central Africa region to fill one of the two non-permanent seats in the Security Council to be vacated on 31 December 1993. However, the same cannot be said for the west Africa region. Hence both Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria are candidates to fill …
My delegation expresses its sincere
appreciation to the Secretary-General for his tireless endeavours over the
past year, since we last debated the question of Palestine in the Assembly.
His reports covering Palestinian refugee problems in higher education,
displacement, ration distribution, pro…
When, three days ago, the Security
Council adopted its resolution 777 (1992), whose provisions are now reflected
in draft resolution A/47/L.1, on which the General Assembly is about to take a
vote, Zimbabwe expressed a number of fundamental concerns. Since then, my
delegation has listened very c…
