Burkina Faso is delighted to see this important session of the General Assembly being presided over by an illustrious son of a great country, Sweden, with which we have maintained exemplary and fruitful relations of friendship and cooperation for several decades.
I hasten to assure the President of…
First, allow me to express to the President of the United States of America, His Excellency Mr. George W. Bush, and to the Government and the people of America, the compassion and solidarity which Burkina Faso feels following the natural disaster in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi caused by Hurri…
Exactly one week ago, the Millennium Summit was held in this very Hall, in which more than 150 leaders, heads of State and Government took an active and interactive part.
This Summit, which my delegation wishes to salute once again, has played a great service in bringing together so many eminent pe…
Your brilliant election, Mr. President, to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session pays tribute to your personal merits and your eminent qualities as a diplomat, and to your country, Namibia, a country that is to us a symbol of the struggle against oppression. First of all, allow me t…
Sir, your rich experience in the United Nations system, your country — Ukraine — your current responsibilities and your personality assure us of the competence and dedication with which you will fulfil your mission as President of the fifty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly.
We …
As I take the floor on agenda item 150 of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, entitled Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union', I should like to say that it is no mere chance that the Inter- Parliamentary Union, a youthful institution…
The two scourges of desertification and drought assail all the regions of our planet and have increasingly and continually caused the disappearance of vegetation and fertile soils. Chapter 12 of Agenda 21 raised the urgent need of facing up to this problem.
On 14 October last in Paris 87 States sig…
I introduce the draft resolution (A/48/L.54) on behalf of the Member States of the African Group.
An earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude on the Richter scale that occurred on 6 February 1994 destroyed three significant districts in Uganda. The disaster, which took place at a time when Uganda was see…
Most of the speakers before me this morning have put forward essentially the same points of view held by the delegation of Burkina Faso. I shall therefore confine myself to making just a few comments.
In speaking today on the item on the agenda, we are bitterly reminded of the failure of the United…
