The delegation of Costa Rica, which proposed the International Day of Peace — observed each year on the opening day of the regular session of the General Assembly — is in full agreement with the proposed change, which is being made because the session of the General Assembly is to begin on an earlie…
I am very pleased to see the Permanent Representative of Panama presiding over the plenary of the General Assembly at this time, and it is a particular honour for me to begin the consideration of item 26, “University for Peace”, and to address the General Assembly on behalf of the fraternal Republic…
My delegation was one of the sponsors of the request to include the item on a culture of peace as a separate item on this very important subject, as contained
I wish to associate Costa Rica with the statements made by the representatives of El Salvador on behalf of Central America and of Paraguay o…
I wish simply to refer to operative paragraph 5, section I, of draft resolution II (resolution 51/77), entitled “The rights of the child”, which is contained in document A/51/615.
In this paragraph, States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child are urged to accept the amendment to par…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, I should like to inform the Assembly that, as I indicated on 4 November in the Third Committee, the Group met to take a stand on the inclusion of the phrase “within existing resources” or of other similar wording, such as “within the regular budget of the Unit…
The protection and support of children has always been part of Costa Rica’s social policy. That goal was established in the 1920s with the creation as a government agency of the National Board for Children, which is still very active today.
Like all the delegations that have participated in the deb…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, Costa Rica is pleased to express its satisfaction at your excellent and innovative performance, Sir, in the exercise of the presidency of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly.
The Group of 77 and China welcome the Bureau’s decision to allocate this…
Mr. President, I thank you for calling on me to present the draft resolution now before the General Assembly in document A/50/L.61/Rev.1. The purpose of the draft resolution is to present to the plenary General Assembly for approval the recommendation of the Conference of States Parties to the Conve…
I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak on this occasion, which is of great importance to my delegation.
I wish to express my deep and sincere appreciation to the General Assembly for adopting draft resolution A/50/L.42/Rev.1, entitled “University for Peace”, and to the delegations that wer…
The delegation of Costa Rica, on its own behalf and on behalf of the other Central American States — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama — wishes to associate itself with those who have expressed condolences on the death of Ambassador Bradford Morse, who served as the Administrato…
