At a time when our Central American brothers are mourning the victims claimed and the desolation wrought by hurricane Mitch, Venezuela reiterates its condolences over this terrible tragedy and to express its solidarity with the peoples and Governments of Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemal…
We are particularly pleased that the General
With regard to the text adopted, we wish to state here our understanding of one of the components of paragraph 26. The fourth element mentioned in that paragraph refers to the idea of establishing a Special Commission at the ministerial level to examine …
I should like to introduce the draft resolution contained in document A/52/L.70. The draft is not new to the members of this Assembly, particularly those who took part in the debates in the Second Committee, because the text before the Assembly, which my country has the honour to sponsor, is in fact…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your presidency of the Security Council this month.
Venezuela is pleased to be a sponsor of the draft resolution submitted to the Council, which we hope will be adopted in a few moments. As the Council knows, we are linked to Haiti by two centurie…
First, I should like to associate Venezuela with the congratulations extended to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of January. We wish you every success in the discharge of this very important responsibility.
Venezuela asked to address the Council on this o…
We voted in favour of this resolution because we agree with the main elements it contains.
However, we would have liked to see included in the operative part of the resolution a reference similar to the one in the preambular part relating to the need to promote the development of friendly relations…
We wish to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for his report on the progress at mid-decade and for his assessment of achievement of the mid-decade and end-decade goals, as requested in the Declaration and Plan of Action of the World Summit for Children. The report is a clear ref…
It is a great honour and a great pleasure for me to introduce draft resolution A/50/L.73, which embodies the results of the informal consultations that have been taking place over the past six months on agenda item 23, pursuant to resolution 48/162. I dare say that it is very gratifying for all dele…
