First let me congratulate you, Sir, the Foreign Minister of Namibia, on your election as President of the General Assembly this session. I certainly recall my meetings with you and your President in your country last year.
I also wish to welcome three new Members to the United Nations — Kiribati, N…
May I start, Sir, by congratulating Mr. Opertti on his election as President of this great Assembly, and wishing him well as he guides its deliberations. I was privileged to visit his country, Uruguay, earlier this year, and appreciated the warmth and hospitality on that occasion.
I would also like…
May I first take this occasion to congratulate Ambassador Diogo Freitas do Amaral of Portugal on his election to the presidency of the Assembly in this important fiftieth anniversary year.
I should also like to offer a special welcome to Palau as the one hundred eighty-fifth Member. Palau’s accessi…
My Government would like to take this opportunity to express its thanks to the Secretary-General for the diligence with which he has pursued the General Assembly’s mandate to prepare an Agenda for Development. The report which is now before us is the product of a lengthy series of discussions and de…
For the first time, at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development the international community addressed population growth in the broader context of achieving sustainable development. This is a key departure, opening a new path forward into the twenty-first century.
Population is no longer s…
New Zealand has voted in favour of the resolution contained in document A/49/L.9. We did however cast this vote with some reservations.
We voted in favour because there is an important underlying principle at stake with direct implications for economic and trading interests. We consider that all co…
My delegation welcomes this opportunity to speak on the situation in Burundi. As another small country Member of this Organization and as a member of the Security Council, New Zealand has been following closely the tense and volatile conditions that have threatened that country’s nascent democracy.
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The symbol chosen as the logo for the International Year of the Family, a heart sheltered by a roof, is an apt one. Nineteen ninety- four, the International Year of the Family, has been taken to heart in New Zealand. There has been celebration of the fundamental role played by the family in all its …
In the course of this year Member States have had a thorough opportunity to discuss representation on the Security Council and related matters. Those discussions were constructive, frank and detailed. All issues were traversed and all points of view were heard. This, in itself, is useful. We now hav…
I should like, first, to congratulate Mr. Amara Essy of Côte d’Ivoire on his well-deserved election as President of the General
The general debate is our chance, as Members of the United Nations, to undertake together an annual review of the Organization’s work - its successes and its failures - an…
Today is a very special day for this Assembly. It marks the end of a long and arduous process for the United Nations, for today we have welcomed into our ranks the representatives of a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa, able to exercise all the prerogatives of membership of the United N…
