My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for his report on strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations. Our thanks go also to the Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello. Moreover, my delegation endors…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, and to wish every measure of success for the very effective presidency of the Gambia. I should also like to acknowledge the important contribution made by Gabon and to hail the presence among us at this meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Libyan Arab…
When the Secretary-General issued document A/51/950, entitled “Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform”, on 14 July 1997, scarcely five months ago, it seemed impossible that the General Assembly might be adopting such far-reaching decisions today.
We meet today thanks to the initiative,…
The delegation of the Republic of Cuba wishes to acknowledge the efforts of the Secretary-General aimed at strengthening and revitalizing the role of the United Nations. We also wish to acknowledge the personal contribution made by you, Mr. President, and of the Ambassadors of Brazil and Norway in t…
I should like to express my heartfelt thanks to Ambassador Somavía for introducing this report and for his constant, daily efforts in this field.
The presentation of the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly should constitute a model of substantive reflection and debate not only on…
As was announced in a statement by the President of the General Assembly on 13 December 1996, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the delegations of the administering Powers …
Only a few days ago the international community, and especially the peoples of the Middle East, appealed once again to the United Nations Security Council to shoulder its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and take appropriate measures so that Israel would reverse…
For more than five consecutive years, year after year, many countries have stepped up to this rostrum to suggest how best the report of the Security Council might fulfil the role for which it was designed: providing all States Members of the United Nations with the information they need to determine…
The implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF), whose mid-term review focused the attention of the international community just a few weeks ago, is an issue to which my delegation attaches the highest importance.
The documents for this agen…
The agenda item on equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other related matters is one of the most significant and important on the agenda of the General Assembly. That has been made by the numerous references to the need to reform and democratize the …
At the outset, Mr. President, I wish to thank you deeply for your words, and express the gratitude of our Government and people to you, to the General Assembly and to this Organization, which embodies and represents values that are the essence of humanity. During difficult moments and circumstances …
It is a source of pride and a privilege for us to see you, Sir, presiding over the General Assembly with such efficiency, dynamism and sensitivity; your presence gives us both pleasure and hope.
In this setting, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, we observed and took…
We are honoured and pleased that Honduras, a part of our America, is presiding over the Security Council. I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and to wish you success during your term of office. I would also like to thank Ambassador Alfredo Lopes Cabral for his contribution during his effective pr…
Few times in modern history, and particularly since the start of what has come to be called the nuclear age, has there been an issue that has been so insistently and repeatedly pressed by the international community as the suspension and prohibition of nuclear-weapons testing.
There has been no sho…
The aggression which Israel is perpetrating against Lebanon must be halted immediately and the occupied territories must be returned. The Security Council must reaffirm all the provisions of resolution 425 (1978) and take the measures necessary to bring about its implementation.
The situation of ac…
Thirty-five years ago, in this very Chamber, a United States Ambassador presented photographs and evidence of Cuban military aircraft alleged to have rebelled against our Government and bombed airports in Cuba. A few days later the President of the United States took it upon himself to refute this a…
I should like to congratulate Oman on its presidency of the Security Council, and I should like also to extend our best wishes to the Russian Federation as it presides over the Council.
Recently the General Assembly devoted two days of plenary meetings to a debate on the report of the Security Coun…
The item entitled “Question of Palestine” has been on the agenda of the General Assembly for many years. Consideration of this item at the fiftieth session is particularly important and significant in view of the special background against which it is set, namely a constantly evolving and changing r…
The practice of presenting the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly, reinstituted appropriately by the Permanent Mission of Brazil in 1993, has become increasingly important, not only for the work of the Council, but also for all the Members of the Organization, which are increasin…
The question of equitable representation on and
Cuba believes that the necessary restructuring of the Security Council should be in line with the realities and demands of an Organization which, 50 years after its inception, has undergone profound changes in many respects. This should be done, first…
