The United States actively supports the work of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) as important instruments to assist countries making the fragile transition from conflict to sustainable peace. The United Nations peacebuilding architecture helps to keep attention foc…
We thank the Secretary-General for his report on the progress of the Peacebuilding Fund (A/67/711) and the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for its report on its sixth session (A/67/715). We appreciate the contributions of the Peacebuilding Commission, the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and the Peacebuildin…
Indeed, the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization, document A/61/1, addresses a subject area as comprehensive as any report’s. There are many things in the report on which we could comment, as others have done in today’s consideration.
The Assembly just “took note” of the …
The ongoing reform of United Nations human resources management is robust with today’s milestone consensus. It enables the Secretary-General to implement the results-based management programme under way for a more effective, efficient and accountable Organization.
The most valuable asset for any or…
The United States delegation supports the positive role that sports can play towards achieving a peaceful and better world. In particular, it believes in the Olympic ideal and encourages
The United States delegation has co-sponsored the Assembly's adoption of five previous resolutions in this vein …
Today’s work relates to the implementation of agreed measures for reforming the Organization for improved effectiveness and efficiency. At its forty-seventh session, the General Assembly succeeded in rationalizing the number of the Assembly’s Main Committees and in agreeing on other improvements whi…
The United States delegation wishes to register a reservation on operative paragraph 4 of the draft resolution entitled “Science and technology for development”, contained on page 9 of document A/50/617/Add.40.
The United States delegation wishes to reaffirm that whenever the term “sustained econom…
It is in a spirit of building a peaceful and better world through sport that my delegation is pleased to join in sponsoring the draft resolutions before the General Assembly today entitled "Observance of the Olympic Truce" and "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal".
In 1889, Baron Pier…
