My delegation takes the floor to express its full support for the proposed Millennium Assembly, the Special Commission on the United Nations system and the Millennium Forum, which are all facets of
We recognize also that the report of the Secretary- General entitled “Renewing the United Nations: a …
Fiji continues to reiterate its concern over the inequitable and undemocratic geographic representation in the membership of the Security Council, both the permanent and the non-permanent membership. The numerical limit of permanent membership, five, and the limited geographical span of the five are…
Let me say at the outset that Fiji is totally committed to the reform of the Security Council, which we believe is vitally important to the future of the United Nations and its membership.
Last year in the General Assembly, I registered my country's concern at the lack of equitable geographical rep…
Fiji is among the co-sponsors of the draft resolution before us and wishes to express its strong support for this document. The draft notes, inter alia, that the report by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) indicates that the transit…
There is no doubt whatsoever that Africa has been a grossly neglected continent. Its neglect by the international community in one way or another spawned a string of negative elements which have caused the stagnation of the growth and development of the countries of Africa, individually and collecti…
The reform of the Security Council has been the subject of our consideration for the last three years. During that time, an Open-ended Working Group has carried out deliberations on the matter. The Group has been unable to come up with definitive proposals for the reform of the Council. Nevertheless…
My delegation joins others in warmly congratulating Ambassador Razali Ismail on his election to
It also gives me great pleasure to extend the profound gratitude of my delegation to the outgoing President of the historic fiftieth session of the General Assembly, Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral of Portug…
Fiji is honoured and privileged to co-sponsor draft resolution A/50/L.78, which has just been introduced by the Ambassador of Australia and which is before this Assembly, calling for the adoption, inter alia, of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty as contained in document A/50/1027 — committed a…
Fiji is a small country in the South Pacific. It is far removed from the current theatre of conflict in the Middle East. But we are a nation committed to peace in our world and to a peaceful resolution of the Middle East situation. In keeping with that commitment, we have been an active participant …
My country also attaches great importance to this item and we therefore support the motion that a decision on this draft resolution be deferred until we have had further consultations with a view to adopting a resolution by consensus.
We understand the preoccupation of those who are concerned that …
