Let me begin, Sir, by saying how pleased I am to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council for this month, which coincides with the holy month of Ramadan. It is a time when the holy places are filled and Muslims - their faces glowing with a sense of trust and serenity - seek, through p…
Following the end of the cold war, the world has witnessed numerous changes. Although the results of such changes have not taken final form yet it is quite certain that a new reality does exist and that that new reality has taken the shape of a much enlarged United Nations whose membership has risen…
The areas which at one time or another were theatres of military operations and in whose soil large numbers of land-mines were planted have continued to be a grave source of fear and anxiety. On the one hand, this existence of land-mines continues to impede economic development and obstruct every ef…
