Since 1988, resolutions have been regularly adopted by this Assembly recognizing the need for cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Aware of the central role the United Nations has played in the international arena since the end of the cold war, the Head…
The delegation of Benin is eagerly taking part in the discussion of the agenda item that gathered us all here today entitled “Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies”. The Government of Benin takes the view that all St…
For more than 30 years, the brother people of Cuba has been subjected to a unilateral economic, commercial and financial embargo. The primary consequence of this unilateral measure has been the extreme impoverishment of the Cuban people, the subsequent deterioration in its living conditions, and, he…
The delegation of Benin has no intention of entering into polemics with the representative of Guinea-Bissau, who has just made a value judgment relating to the form and the grounds of the right of reply that was exercised by my delegation on 10 October last. We will leave it to the General Assembly …
I am grateful for this opportunity to make a statement in exercise of my delegations right of reply, following the statement made this morning by the head of the delegation of Guinea-Bissau about the formal endorsement by the Group of African States of his country’s candidature for one of the non-pe…
It was a source of great satisfaction for the delegation of Benin to have been among the first delegations to request the General Committee to include in the agenda of the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly an item entitled "Observer status for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the …
