Throughout its history, the Principality of Monaco, whose maritime space has been important, particularly if compared to the small size of its territory, has always linked its fate to the sea, particularly since the establishment of the law of the sea in 1330 and two centuries later the right to cas…
Every two years since the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly, in 1993, the Principality of Monaco has participated with interest in the debate on the item “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal”.
We are particularly interested in the debate this year bec…
This year, the Government of the Principality has decided to focus its statement on the cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF), because this cooperation covers an increasing number of areas in a spirit of exemplary complementarity and coord…
The consideration of the question of oceans and the law of the sea has taken on increasing importance. The quality of the work of the second meeting of the Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea is therefore highly relevant.
The draft resolution that has been submitted to us…
On 11 September, disbelief gave way to horror in the face of
the unprecedented violence and magnitude of the terrorist attacks against the United States of America.
His Serene Highness the Sovereign Prince of Monaco immediately conveyed his condolences to President Bush and assured him of the soli…
The representative of Ukraine has introduced draft resolution A/55/L.13, of which the Principality of Monaco is a sponsor. We congratulate Mr. Oleh Herasymenko on the professionalism with which he conducted the consultations, with the result that today we are meeting to decide to convene from 25 to …
Allow me first of all to express the thanks of my delegation to Ms. Alison Drayton of the Republic of Guyana and to
Ms. Victoria Hallum of New Zealand for their enlightened conduct of the consultations on the draft resolution relating to oceans and the law of the sea that has just been presented an…
I am grateful to you, Mr. President, for allowing the representative of a European State Member of the United Nations that is not yet a member of the Council of Europe — although we are fervently aspiring to become one — to speak on the agenda item on cooperation between the United Nations and that …
Ambassador Patricia Durrant, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the special session on children, will be presenting draft resolution A/55/L.34 to the Assembly for its approval.
We thank her very warmly for her remarkable work and would also like to thank Ambassador Schumacher of the Federal …
The Principality of Monaco — whose official language is French; whose vernacular, Monegasque, is successfully taught in schools; and above all on whose territory many languages are spoken in harmony — is unreservedly in favour of multilingualism. Indeed, we feel the benefits of multilingualism every…
For the Principality of Monaco, a sponsor of draft resolution A/54/L.26, interest in sport is as deep-seated as our interest in art and culture. This has given rise to the creation of major sporting events such as the Herculis meet and the Monaco International Marathon, which passes through the terr…
In all human societies, older persons have occupied an essential, even a dominant, place. Historians, ethnologists, sociologists all agree: older persons represented, even in the most ancient civilizations sources of inspiration, wisdom and judgement. They were esteemed and respected, their words he…
Let us cast our minds back to 10 December 1948, when the most horrible and deadly of events, spawned by hatred and contempt, is fresh in our memories.
The United Nations Charter, signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945, entered into force on 24 October of the same year. Among its hastily constitute…
In 1946, addressing the members of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, the chief prosecutor, referring to the accused, stated,
“If you do not condemn these men, their very conscience will revolt, because they know they are guilty”.
By defining the concepts of genocide, war crimes and cr…
Turning naturally to the sea because of its geography, the Principality of Monaco owes much of its international renown to marine and oceanographic activities whose development since the last century has been consistently encouraged by its Government, inspired by the scientific work accomplished by …
Our Assembly is about to adopt for the third time a draft resolution on building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic Ideal. This text has just been very
In this draft resolution, the General Assembly would urge Member States to observe the Olympic Truce during the XVIII Olympi…
The Principality of Monaco, as a member of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation since it was set up in 1970 in Niamey, particularly welcomes the development and strengthening of cooperation between this institution which brings together States and Governments that use French as a common…
The draft resolution on multilingualism that is before the Assembly reminds us, following another series of initiatives of the same nature, that our Organization is not a monolithic being, a soulless bureaucracy, but a living organism within which human beings — men and women from different regions …
The Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation was founded 25 years ago in Niamey to promote multilateral cooperation between countries that use French as a common language. At the beginning it had 21 States and Governments as members; it now has 44, nearly one quarter of the States Members of th…
Allow me first of all, and with particular gratitude, to extend to the President’s predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Amara Essy, our warmest compliments for the care and discipline he displayed during his presidency of the forty- ninth session of the General Assembly. Our compliments also go to the ot…
