Together with the other European Union countries present on the Council, Italy has proposed some amendments to the original text of the draft resolution in order to achieve a more balanced resolution that we think will not hinder, but rather, stimulate progress in the peace process in the Middle Eas…
Italy welcomes the adoption of today’s resolution on Croatia, which it joined in sponsoring and in the drafting of which it participated. In our opinion, the Security Council had the duty to take this initiative to deal with a situation that we continue to consider unsatisfactory and dangerous. Whil…
Allow me to begin, Sir, by addressing to you a warm welcome from my delegation and our best wishes on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council today. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank your Government for having sent to the United Nations such a fine and able diplom…
The recent cowardly murder of two French UNPROFOR soldiers in Sarajevo is for us, also, a source of profound sorrow and strong indignation. These feelings were expressed personally by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Agnelli, in her statement here in New York yesterday at the NPT Review…
Italy will vote in favour of the draft resolution that is before the Council this morning. We shall vote in favour on the basis of one conviction — that while sanctions are, and remain, one of the most effective tools provided by the Charter of the United Nations to enforce compliance with internati…
Since this is the first time that I have spoken in the Council under your presidency, Sir, allow me first to congratulate you warmly on your assumption of such an important duty, which we are sure you will be able to discharge with your usual, well-known efficiency and effectiveness, and also with y…
Allow me first to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February.
Italy shares and endorses the views that will be expressed by France later on in its capacity as President of the European Union. My delegatio…
The resolution just adopted on Haiti is another building-block in the beginning of a new phase
The first step was the intervention of the Multinational Force, which liberated the Haitian people from the military regime and made possible the return of their constitutional leader, President Aristide.…
I wish to join you, Mr. President, and the speakers who preceded me in extending a warm welcome to the Foreign Minister of Mozambique, His Excellency Mr. Leonardo Simão. His presence at this table today symbolizes the return of his country to peace, unity, stability and progress. Henceforth Mozambiq…
Italy will vote in favour of the draft resolution. We now view the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) for three months as being of considerable advantage.
On one hand, three months is long enough to allow verification of whether or not the Liberian f…
Italy’s support for the resolution renewing the mandate of the Observer Mission in Georgia has been based on three main considerations: the usefulness of this resolution to a relaunching of the political negotiations, the need to consolidate the mechanism that has enabled the cease-fire to be compli…
Since this is the first time I am addressing the Security Council under your presidency, Sir, I wish first of all to express my country’s great and sincere appreciation for your balance and wisdom as you guide the Council’s work during the month of December.
We read with interest the French aide-mé…
Madam President, may I begin by joining previous speakers in congratulating you on your assumption of your new duties as President of the Security Council for the month of November. It is a tribute and a challenge to your considerable diplomatic skills. May I also thank Sir David Hannay for the exem…
The Security Council has once again produced for the General Assembly a report with a long and detailed list of its activities between June 1993 and June 1994. From the report, the volume of the Council’s work in the interest of the maintenance of international peace and security appears particularl…
Italy is pleased and honoured to be among the sponsors of the draft resolution contained in document A/48/L.62, entitled "Observer status for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the General Assembly".
The Order of Malta has been in existence for almost 1,000 years. For the past two centuries i…
Italy looks forward to the establishment of an open-ended working group on the question of an increase in the membership of the Security Council. In today’s world, this essential organ of the United Nations is called on to play an unprecedented and crucial role. Needless to say, it is not enough to …
Italy has consistently supported the University for Peace since its foundation by the General Assembly 13 years ago. As has just been recalled by Ambassador Tattenbach, the University’s host country is the Republic of Costa Rica, whose essential role, in proposing the initiative and in making it a r…
Italy wishes to reaffirm its strong commitment to the peace process in Central America, which began with the historic Esquipulas Agreements. My country wholeheartedly supports the Government and the people of Nicaragua as they develop their democracy and their economy. Over the past few years, Italy…
Two weeks from today, during the ministerial Council in Rome, Italy will assume the chairmanship of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). That is why I am speaking after our
In the year of its chairmanship of the CSCE, Italy intends fully to play the political role which is a…
