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.
On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to
welcome to the united Nations the President of the Republic of Colombia, His
Excellency Mr. Virgilio Barco Vargas, and to invite him to address the Assembly.
President BARCO VARGAS (Colombia) (interpretation from Spanish): First of
all, I w…
I should like to inform
members that on Tuesday, 3 December 1991, at 10 a.m." the Assembly will take
up agenda item 16, entitled **Appointment of the Secretary-General", and
immediately afterwards continue its consideration of agenda item 37, "Policies
of apartheid of the Government of South Afr…
The Assembly will hear an address by the President of the
Republic of Colombia.
Mr. Virgilio Barco Vargas, President of the Republic of Colombia, was escorted
into t""12 General Assembly Hall.
The positions of delegati?ns regarding the various recommendations of the Fifth Committee have been made clear in the Committee's meetings and are reflected in the relevant official records.
7. May I now invite members to turn their attention to the report of the Fifth Committee on agenda item 17 (…
On behalf of the General
Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations General Assembly the
President of the Republic of Panama, His Excellency Mr. Manuel Solis Palma, and to
invi te him to address the Assembly.
President SOLIS PAL"1A (interpretation from Spanish): Mr. Presid~11t,…
In order to assist delegations in planning their work I
should like to inform members of the programme of the Assenbly for this week.
This afternoon, the Assembly will continue its consideration of agenda
item 40, "The si tuation in the Middle East".
'Ibmrrow, 6 Decenber, in the IIIOrning, the A…
Before continuing the
debate this morning, I should like to express my sa tisfaction - which, I am sure,
is shared by everyone in this Hall - with regard to the decision of the Government
of the United States of America to enter into direct dialogue with the Palestine
Liberation OrganiZation, wh…
I now call on representatives who have asked to speak in
exercise of the right of reply. I remind members that in accordance with General
Assembly resolution 34/401 statements in exercise of the right of reply are limited
to 10 minutes for the first intGEVention and five minutes for the second.
…
On behalf of the General
Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the TJnited Nations the Amir of the State
of Kuwait, His Highness Sheikh Jaber AI-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and to invit~ him to
address the Assembly.
Sheikh AL-SABAH (interpretation from Arabic): When we Moslems open our
statements by sa…
The Assembly will now hear a statement by the Prime
Minister and Minister of Defence of the Republic of the Sudan,
Mr. Alsadig AI-Mahdi.
Mr. Alsadig AI-Mahdi, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Sudan, was
escorted to the rostrum.
I call on the representative
of Brunei Darussalam, who will speak on behalf of the Group of Asian States.
Mr. JAYA (Brunei Darussalam): In my capacity as Chairman of the Group of
Asian States for the month of November, I should like to express our profound
sorrow over the sudden death of Preside…
I shall now call on those representatives who wish to
speak in exercise of the right of reply. May I remind members that, in accordance
with General Assembly decision 34/401, statements in exercise of the right of reply
are limited to ten minutes for the first inte~vention and to five minutes for…
If there is no proposal under rule 66 of the rules of
procedure, I shall take it that the General Assembly decides not to discuss the
reports of the Sixth Committee which are before the Assembly today.
It was so dec ided.
I declare open the
commemorative meeting devoted to the observance of the fortieL~ anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Forty years ago, in 1948, this essential charter, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, finally took shape. At that time it was supported by some
58 …
In accordance with the
decisions taken at the previous meetings cm this item, I invite the representatives
of Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, the
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, the Syrian
Arab Republic, Tunisi…
The Assembly will now hear
an address by the President of the Argentine Republic.
Mr. Raul Alfonsin, President of Hle Argentine P~public, was escorted into the
General Assembly Hall.