We are meeting today to evaluate the activities of the Organization during the past year and to work collectively to enable it to deal effectively with challenges in the field of security and peace-keeping and in the promotion of global integrated development.
The Secretary-General’s has made a use…
Tunisia, in its capacity as current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) welcomes with
The leaders of the parties that signed the Convention on Governance demonstrated great wisdom by that act and showed that the people of Burundi is able to proceed responsibly in order to overcome t…
The Tunisian delegation would like first to express its satisfaction at the adoption and signing by a large number of countries of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.
The binding natu…
Allow me first of all, Sir, on my own behalf and on that of my delegation, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly and on your outstanding leadership of our work.
In addition, it is my pleasure to pay a tribute to Ambassador Insanally, Chairman of the Open-e…
On behalf of my delegation, allow me first to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of September and on the exemplary manner in which you are guiding its work.
Once again, the Security Council is discussing a question that continually tugs at the w…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to express our great appreciation for the skill with which Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari has guided the work of this body.
Our congratulations go also to Ambassador Keating of N…
Allow me, Sir, to say how much we appreciate your readiness to preside over this important Security Council meeting, in which eminent Ministers for Foreign Affairs are participating on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). We should also like to take this opportunity to pay tri…
On behalf of my delegation, I should like first of all, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of this body and to tell you how very much we appreciate the way in which you are discharging your responsibility. My congratulations also go to your predecessor, Ambassador Jean-Ber…
The Arab Maghreb Union countries on whose behalf it is my honour to speak - Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia - consider the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as undoubtedly the most serious tragedy to have confronted this Organization recently. It is a tragedy that p…
I have the honour today to speak on behalf of the delegations of the Arab Maghreb Union, Mauritania, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Algeria and my country, Tunisia, in the context of the Assembly’s consideration of the question of the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of a united,…
Today, as we mark the forty-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which on 10 December 1948 enshrined the principles already enshrined three years earlier in the San Francisco Charter, the international community is reaffirming its unwavering commitment to the noble objecti…
This year, in our consideration of the question of the law of the sea, there is a new element of hope. Indeed, Guyana has just deposited, on 16 November 1993, its instrument of ratification of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, thus making it possible for the Convention to enter in…
We meet today to consider once again a question that has weighed and continues to weigh heavily on the world’s conscience and which has a direct impact on the international situation: namely the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East. It is no wonder that this important question …
During the general debate held just a few weeks ago in this Hall, all the speakers who came to this rostrum set forth their view of the role to be played in the world today by the United Nations and its organs, particularly the Security Council, with the end in mind of making them more capable of re…
The delegation of Tunisia would like, first, to thank the Secretary-General for the high quality of the documentation on agenda item 44.
The concerns expressed in the Secretary-General’s report about the devastating effects of natural disasters and other emergency situations, as well as the loss of…
The Tunisian delegation has a number of comments to make on agenda item 24, "United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s".
Let me begin by welcoming the international community’s interest in the difficult economic situation that has prevailed in Africa for several decades. …
I should like, on behalf of my delegation, to extend warm congratulations to the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, on his innovative and substantive report, which, we are sure, will constitute an excellent basis for our continued efforts to strengthen the role of the Organization and inc…
