On behalf of the States members of the Asian Group, I wish to express our deepest regret and sorrow at the untimely passing away of Ambassador Benny Kimberg, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations. The late Ambassador Kimberg had an impressive record of service to his country, ser…
I wish to express the views of my country on the omnibus resolution pertaining to the questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.
Let me begin b…
Papua New Guinea has the honour to make this statement in its capacity as the present Chair of the South Pacific Forum and on behalf of the 16 member countries of the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall I…
Having heard again the French representative’s voluminous comments in exercise of the right of reply, I wish to state further that this is not a debate on semantics: this is an issue of life and death for the people of the Pacific. We therefore reiterate that it is absolutely nonsensical and irratio…
I take the floor in my capacity as the Permanent Representative of the Member State of Papua New Guinea, which currently holds the Chair of the South Pacific Forum, to exercise our right of reply to the French delegation’s statements in exercise of their right of reply, in reference to nuclear testi…
I have the honour to speak in my capacity as the Chairman of the Group of Asian States and, on their behalf, I wish to extend our warmest and sincere congratulations to you, Professor Diogo Freitas do Amaral, on your unanimous election to the important post of President of this historic fiftieth ses…
On behalf of the Papua New Guinea delegation, it is my extreme pleasure to lend our support to draft resolution A/49/L.62/Rev.1, which relates to cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In so doing, we further associate ourselves with the statements made by the …
It is an honour and pleasure for me to take this opportunity to state the views of my delegation on the important occasion of our commemoration of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.
Indigenous people are the autochthonous or aboriginal peoples of the land and are found in ma…
In the 20 years since Bucharest, the international community has successfully forged a common vision and reached a global consensus on a Programme of Action that will serve as a blueprint from which each State will shape its own policies and programmes according to its specific needs and priorities.…
My delegation fully endorses and associates itself with the statements made by the Chairpersons of the Group of 77, the Alliance of Small Island States and the South Pacific Forum, who have eloquently expressed and conveyed the significance and the importance of the Global Conference on the Sustaina…
