I wish to welcome Minister Dačić to the Security Council in his capacity as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office, as well as to thank him for his briefing.
Forty years ago, the Helsinki Final Act spelled out fundamental principles governing relations…
Lithuania welcomes this effort — the most extensive and ambitious ever made — to renew the United Nations. We must ensure that the summit commitments we all have undertaken are implemented and that they produce real and tangible results, in order to improve the Organization’s capacity to act adequat…
First of all, I would like to express Lithuania’s support for the statement made by the representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.
Today, globalization requires enhanced collective efforts to fight poverty in a perpetually changing world. We acknowledge that the Monterrey Consens…
I would like to say, Mr. President, that I take special pleasure in seeing you preside over this Millennium Assembly session. I wish
to assure you of my delegation’s full support in all your endeavours. As one of the Vice-Presidents of the past session, I want to convey my special appreciation to m…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for your introductory remarks and for the decision to submit this item for debate in the plenary.
The United Nations is like a human being: conceived, born, growing, maturing and ultimately trying to delay ageing. A healthy child grows proportionally in all…
Lithuania will align itself with the statement of the European Union that will follow immediately after our statement. Nevertheless, I requested the floor to convey the Lithuanian perspective both on the general issue of model cooperation between the United Nations and a regional arrangements, and o…
It is a great honour to have among us the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, who has been leading the Agency for two years. We continue to have the highest regard for the Agency's activities, not least due to the brilliant performance of its lea…
First of all I would like to thank all the friendly countries which supported our candidature during this election race. Taking into account that today is Friday and that I do not want to torture the membership at large with long rounds of elections, at this stage Lithuania would like to express tha…
We have associated ourselves with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union. I will now add the Lithuanian view on the agenda item, which concerns both the general issue of model cooperation between the United Nations and a regional arrangement, an…
Reform of the Security Council is going down in United Nations history as the item discussed for the longest time without any practical outcome. The organ to be reformed is the Security Council, but so far the matter has affected only the General Assembly, by taking up its precious time and revealin…
The Security Council and the General Assembly are the most important United Nations bodies, yet the Council represents less than a twelfth of United Nations membership. Over time, its share in the entire membership has decreased, while its importance has increased. With this discrepancy and the memb…
We associated ourselves with what the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg said on behalf of the European Union. That statement reflected precisely how we see the matter. I would like only to complement the view of the European Union with our national perspective, as this agenda item encompasses b…
It is a special honour and pleasure for the Lithuanian delegation to wish the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a happy fortieth anniversary. The Agency has reached its golden age, in which mature wisdom and youthful energy make it the organization that it is — a unique, effective and respec…
I am honoured to address the General Assembly on agenda item 38, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe”. We have associated ourselves with the statement just made by the representative of Ireland on behalf of the European Union. …
Lithuania has aligned itself with the statement by the European Union and welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Given present-day global concerns, which require rapid-reaction capabil…
I have the honour of making a statement on behalf of the Baltic States — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Last year the Baltic States — Estonia, Latvia and my own country, Lithuania — cosponsored the resolution inviting the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) to participate, in th…
