Ambassador Albright had hoped to be here today to present the position of the United States on the adoption of the programme budget, but she was not able to be with us this morning.
The United States views the adoption of the United Nations programme budget for 1996-1997 with mixed feelings. The bu…
The United States believes that further time is needed for discussions with the co-sponsors of the text contained in document A/50/L.6/Rev.1 in order to seek to achieve consensus on the draft resolution.
As a multicultural society, the United States fully appreciates and respects the value of multi…
The report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization states many sound goals and objectives. In particular, we agree with the goal of:
“Reforming the United Nations into a simpler, more focused and more integrated organization, capable of pursuing the different aspects of its mission…
The United States was pleased to join the consensus on draft resolution A/49/L.68, entitled “Strengthening of the United Nations system”.
Our delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for your vision leading to today’s consensus resolution. We also wish to express our gratitude to Ambassador Sreenivasa…
The United States welcomes the resolution that has just been adopted on the financing of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, although, as was pointed out with respect to the resolution regarding the financing of the International Tribunal concerning war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, it is our …
The United States, along with the representatives of Canada, the European Union, Australia and other countries, believes that the work of the war crimes Tribunal should be financed entirely on the regular budget scale. By no stretch of the imagination is a war crimes tribunal a peace-keeping operati…
The United States welcomes Portugal’s decision to increase voluntarily its rate of assessment for peace-keeping. In his statement to the Fifth Committee last week, the representative of Portugal cited two reasons for his Government’s voluntary action: its concern for the United Nations financial sit…
The United States delegation has joined in the consensus to adopt the resolution before us, which sets out the modalities of and arrangements to be made for the upcoming Special Commemorative Meeting to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.
The six special meetings and the other…
I am here today to speak frankly about the subject of financing United Nations peace operations. My Government strongly supports effective and well-planned peace operations because they enhance international security, stability and democracy. My country is the largest financial contributor to such o…
