I should like to refer briefly to the draft resolutions under agenda item 55 (a), which were introduced at the 61st plenary meeting, on 9 November. The sponsors of the draft resolutions re- quested that five of the draft resolutions, namely, A/34/L.16 to A/34/L.20, which deal with special categories…
Before submitting the provisional agenda to the Council, I should like to pay tribute to the cclleagues who have just left us and to welcome those who are about to join us today.
2. Foremost among those who are leaving us 1 should like to pay tribute to the representative of Ecuador; 1 am sure that…
This afternoon the Assembly will hear a statement by the Prime Minister of the Independent State of Western Samoa. I have great pleasure in welcoming His Excellency the Honourable Tupuola Efl and inviting him to address the General Assembly.
2. Tupuola EFl (Samoa): First i must extend to you, Sir, …
We are gathered here today to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of me proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [resolution 217A (Ill)]. From time to time, in this hall, we pause to reflect on the destiny of that Declaration which is so intrinsically bound up with our Organization …
In paragraph 13 of its report [A/35/47] the Ad Hoc Committee on Subsidiary Organs recommends a draft resolution, to which a revised amendment, distributed as document A/35/ L.6/Rev.l, has been submitted by Nigeria, Romania and Venezuela. I now call on the representative of Nigeria to introduce the r…
Before calling on the first speaker, I should like to propose that the list of speakers in the debate on item 31 be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, at S o'clock. If I hear no objection I shall consider that the General Assembly adopts that proposal.
As neither of the two coun- tries obtained the required majority, the General Assembly will now proceed to the second unrestricted ballot. As before, only Costa Rica and Guyana are eligible, and papers containing the names of other States or more than one name will be declared invalid. The ballot pa…
I thank the representative
of the United Kingdom for his kind words addressed to me.
The next speaker is the representative of Algeria. I invite him to take a
plaoe at the Council table and to make his statement.
Mr. BENDJAMA (Algeria) (interpretation from French) 8 In conveying to
you, Sir, th…
The provisional agenda being the same as the one adopted at yesterday's meeting, we might consider it as adopted today with the same reservations as those which were made y'esterday. Admission of new Mambers: (a) Adoption of a recommendation to the General Assembly con- cerning the simultaneous admi…
This afternoon the Assembly will hear a statement by the Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs of Grenada. I have great pleasure in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Eric M. Gairy and inviting himto addressthe General Assembly.
Today, 20 November, marks a milestone in United Nations history. Twenty years ago, in this very hall, our Organization unanimously adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child [resolution 1386 (XIV)], in the conviction that mankind owed to the child the best it had to give.
2. How far have we…
This mornhig we shall continue to hearstatements of welcome to the two new States Members of the United Nations-the Republic of Djibouti and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution entitled ,.Report of the Special Committee on Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Principle of Non-Use of Force in International Relations" recommended by the Sixth Committee in
35. We therefore welcomed the initiative of those Nordic Sta…
I should like to inform the
Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Afghanistan, the
Islamic Republic of Iran, Kuwait and Nicaragua in which they request to be invited
reserved for
them at
of Palestine
to take
to participate in the discussion of the item on the Counci…
The debate on this item was con- cluded at the afternoon meeting on Wednesday, 3 Novem- ber.
2. As members are aware, the General Assembly decided at its S2nd meeting that certain organizations should be heard by the Special Political Committee. That Commit- tee's report on that subject is containe…
Since one seat in the Security Council remains to be filled from the group of Latin American States, we shall now proceed, in accordance with rule 94 of the rules of procedure, to a second ballot restricted to Costa Rica and Guyana, the two countries which obtained the greatest number of votes in th…
The flrst speaker thismorning is the personal representative of General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, President of the Republic of Guatemala, Her Excellency Mrs. Helen Losi de Laugerud. I invite her to address the Assembly.
Draft resolution 11, entitled "Financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force", consists of parts A and B. 13. We shall first vote on draft resolution 11 A. A recorded vote has been requested. A recorded vote was taken. In favour: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangla…
This afternoon we hold the fourth meeting of the Special Commemorative Meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.
The Assembly will first hear an address by His Majesty King Mswati III, Head of State of the Kingdom of Swaziland. King Mswati II…
