The item before us is of the greatest importance to mankind, and it is for that reason that my country would like to demonstrate its solidarity by expressing its full
As a member of the Latin American family, we cannot fail to point out that our region, and the subregion of the Caribbean and Centra…
Today's item is being taken up again by the plenary of the General Assembly after having occupied six long years of discussion in the Working Group established under resolution 48/26 of 3 December 1993. Six years after its establishment, it should be recalled that numerous meetings have been held at…
Sixteen years have elapsed since the General Assembly first included this item on its agenda, and since then we have witnessed deep and very positive changes taking place in the region.
As a country that contributes troops to peacekeeping operations missions, Uruguay has unswervingly supported the …
The Uruguayan delegation would like to explain its vote on the resolution just adopted by the General Assembly, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.
The Uruguayan delegation voted in favour of this resolu…
The zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic provides United Nations work to promote cooperation among Member States a means of supporting basic coordination among African and Latin American countries.
Uruguay accords this interregional cooperation the highest priority. In recent years t…
Fifteen years have passed since this item was first included on the agenda of the General Assembly, and over this period we have witnessed profound changes in the region. The dynamic and changing political, social and economic situation has shown the positive evolution of Central America, which is n…
For Uruguay, the culture of peace represents a vital commitment of the international community. We are by nature a peace-loving country. We understand no other form of behaviour and coexistence among nations. We cannot imagine a world in constant conflict. We do not want coexistence to be plagued by…
I have the honour to address the General Assembly on agenda item 28, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”.
Allow me first of all to indicate my country’s great interest in this topic. From the very beginning Uruguay has supported the inclusion of this …
My delegation would like to discuss the report of the International Court of Justice contained in document A/53/4. As is well known, Uruguay has paid and continues to pay particular attention to the work of the International Court of Justice. Some years ago our country was honoured to be able to con…
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to thank Ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock for presenting the annual report of the Security Council in his capacity as President of that body. It is worth noting that in doing so he was acting within the letter and spirit of the Charter of the Organization and in accordan…
On various occasions we have said that the work of the Working Group on Security Council reform is one of the most sensitive and most difficult issues on which to
We are convinced that the work of the President should be to continually seek consensus. We have no doubt that this has been done both b…
My delegation endorses the statements of preceding speakers and wishes to emphasize the importance Uruguay attaches to the University for Peace and all the activities of that prestigious entity.
Among those activities, we wish to note particularly, as did the representative of Costa Rica, the creat…
On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, it is my painful duty to express our regret at the deaths of two colleagues who were active here at the United Nations as representatives of their respective Missions — the Mission of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and the Mission of t…
The delegation of Uruguay believes that the item before us is one of the most important on the agenda of the United Nations, as it relates to the establishment of a firm and lasting peace in a huge area of the American continent — Central America — and its transformation into a region of peace, libe…
The subject before us is undoubtedly the most important of all, as it involves changing the structure of the organ of greatest political power in the Organization: the Security Council. Therefore, the task of the Vice-Chairmen of the Working Group is also, as we see it, the most difficult. My delega…
Uruguay has been and is an active participant in activities related to the zone of peace and cooperation in the South Atlantic since 1986, when the zone was solemnly declared in resolution 41/11. This declaration met the expectations expressed in various international settings by the developing Stat…
The General Assembly has often been compared to a world parliament, on the basis of the characteristics shared by national parliamentary bodies: the representative nature of their members, and their treatment of the topics
Without trying to equate two organs belonging to essentially different polit…
