On behalf of the Member States of the Asian Group, I have the honour and privilege of congratulating the Republic of Palau on its admission as the 185th Member of the United Nations. I should also like warmly to welcome Palau to this Organization. The admission of Palau, which was until recently a T…
I wish to thank the President for the opportunity provided to us to discuss the financial crisis of the Organization.
The perennial financial crisis of this Organization again compelled the Secretary-General, before the General Assembly, on 12 October 1994, to plead with Member States on the need f…
My delegation abstained in the voting on the inclusion of the item entitled “Capital punishment” in the agenda of the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly.
Singapore does not support the abolition of capital punishment and does not agree with the substance of the draft resolution contained i…
I should first like to express my delegation’s condolences to the delegation of Egypt on the loss of life in that country as a result of the recent floods and fire.
The Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States …
Allow me first to congratulate Mr. Amara Essy on his unanimous election. I am confident that under his leadership the Assembly will achieve its objectives. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Essy’s predecessor, Ambassador Insanally, for his guidance in making the forty-eighth se…
When my Foreign Minister, Mr. Wong Kan Seng, addressed the General Assembly on 6 October, he analysed the need for and the possible
My delegation would like to stress that our approach to the issue of Council reform is based on the premise that this exercise is conducted for the general benefit of …
