As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, we have been taking a look at our Organization’s methods, at its priorities, at its programmes and systems that have evolved over the years in response to the challenges of global development and of international peace an…
It is a pleasure and an honour for my country to participate in today’s commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As President of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNFPA Executive Board for the year 1994, I have h…
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is an unprecedented attempt by the international community to promote the peaceful use of the seas and oceans, the equitable and sustainable utilization of their resources, and the protection and preservation of the marine environment. What makes t…
Permit me to congratulate you, Sir, for assuming personally the presidency of the Council on this historic occasion. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the First Executive Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki. His presence here today in the Security Co…
Permit me, Sir, to begin by congratulating you on having personally assumed the presidential Chair for this very important meeting.
The Government of India is gravely concerned at the continuation of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The massacres of innocent civilians, the systematic use of …
One of the greatest tragedies of modern times continues to unfold in the young Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The stark images of death and destruction and the intolerable suffering of innocent civilians displaced by that most abominable practice of ethnic cleansing continue to haunt us. Hopes …
Thank you, Sir. I do not know the punishment in criminal law for the offence of flogging, but that is what the delegation of Pakistan have inflicted on this Assembly. They flog an argument without sustaining it. They indulge in what logicians call systematically misleading expressions.
They tell us…
My delegation asked to speak at this late hour only on account of the remarks relating to my country in the statement on this agenda item by the representative of Pakistan. My Government has taken note of the paragraph on India and Pakistan in the Secretary- General’s report to the General Assembly.…
On behalf of the people and the Government of India, and especially of those affected by the terrible earthquake that hit south-western India on the night of 30 September, I should like to express our profound gratitude and appreciation for the very kind words of sympathy and condolence that you, Si…
We are constrained to speak a second time.
The representative of Pakistan has added nothing either to the knowledge or to the perception of this Assembly. His remarks call to mind another couplet of the poet Iqbal, who, incidentally, was born an Indian and died an Indian: "He participates not in se…
I wish, under rule 73 of the rules of procedure, to refer to the statement made earlier today by the representative of Pakistan.
All the water in the East River cannot wash off the stains of falsehood, prejudice and perversion with which the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan defa…
