The year 1995 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the most devastating war ever witnessed by mankind. The European Union, together with Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania and the Slovak Republic, in whose name I have the honour to spe…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union.
The European Union notes with satisfaction that, since the General Assembly created the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Gu…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. Cyprus and Malta associate themselves with the content of this statement.
The European Union, as it has already stated on previous occasions, particularly in the High-level Working Group on the Financial Situation of the United Nations, at…
In May 1991, the Security Council established the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) to monitor the agreements between the Government of El Salvador and the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); ONUSAL’s initial mandate was to verify the parties’ fulfilment …
Allow me first of all to express our pleasure at seeing you, Sir, presiding over the work of the Council. We wish to assure you of the Spanish delegation’s full cooperation.
I also wish to convey my delegation’s esteem and gratitude to Ambassador Albright of the United States for the highly compete…
At the last session of the General Assembly, thanks to the initiative taken by the Organization of African Unity, we had the opportunity to consider the question of building a peaceful and better world through sport. As a result of that debate, the General Assembly adopted resolution 48/10, which de…
The Security Council has just acted on the basis of the preliminary report of the Commission of Experts established under resolution 935 (1994), which recommends that the Security Council adopt necessary and effective measures to ensure that those responsible for the grave violations of human rights…
The debate we are holding at this meeting of the Security Council — following the meeting in which the President of the Council, on behalf of the members of the Council, issued the presidential statement on the improvement of procedures of communication and consultation between States that are membe…
With the adoption of resolution 937 (1994), the Security Council is breaking new ground in dealing with the conflict in Abkhazia, Republic of Georgia, and in the methods of carrying out peace-keeping operations. In accordance with a request by the parties and the Secretary- General’s recommendation,…
A month has passed since our last discussion of this item, and the Security Council is once again dealing with the situation in Angola. My delegation would have wished that by today the pending issues in the talks in Lusaka between the Government of Angola and UNITA would be solved and, more concret…
In my capacity as Chairman of the Group of Western European and other States, I would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of the Republic of Nicaragua on his election as President of the General Assembly for the sixty-third session. Mr. d’Escoto’s election is recognitio…
