The International Olympic Committee is this year celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its founding at Paris in 1894, on the initiative of the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin. To pay tribute to that organization, which is led and supported on a volunteer basis, the General Assembly at i…
Côte d'Ivoire has abstained once again in the vote on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. My delegation’s abstention in no way reflects a wish to see extended the tragedy of the Cuban people, which has for so ma…
The sympathy expressed on the occasion of the passing of our lamented President, His Excellency Mr. Félix Houphouët-Boigny, testifies to the international community’s great esteem for this giant of Africa, one of the founding fathers of the Organization of African Unity, whose domestic and foreign p…
In its follow-up machinery, the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s provided for the carrying out by the General Assembly this year of a preliminary review of the progress of the Agenda, which followed on the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Re…
Over the past two decades and especially since 1980, the abuse and illicit trafficking of drugs have grown at a frightening pace, sparing no national borders and without regard to the socio-economic development of countries around the globe. Hence, this phenomenon has not
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