For some years now, the General Assembly has gone through the motions on this agenda item knowing that our words would fall on deaf ears in Kabul and Kandahar, from where the Taliban rode Afghanistan like an incubus. This year, though, we meet when it seems that the Afghans might be coming to the en…
We are pleased that the General Assembly has adopted this resolution on the Firearms Protocol by consensus.
I want to make just one point: that in the negotiations in Vienna, the Indian delegation had expressed its unhappiness over the form which article 4 of the Protocol has taken. These reservati…
Thank you, Sir, for calling this special meeting of the General Assembly to consider what the international community can do to show its solidarity with the people of Mozambique.
May I begin by conveying our deepest sympathies to the people of Mozambique. On behalf of the Government of India, Prime…
Over half a century ago, when India became independent, there were those outside who wondered whether a country so huge, so ethnically diverse, which had more languages and religions than some continents have, and whose distinct regional cultures and traditions traced themselves independently to the…
My delegation fully supports the statement just made on behalf of the Joint Coordinating Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77. We thank the Secretary-General for briefing the General Assembly on the implementation of the reforms which the Assembly has approved thus far and for i…
My delegation joins earlier speakers in expressing our appreciation to you, Sir, to the Co-Vice- Chairmen of the Working Group on an Agenda for Development and to their predecessors, whose devotion and hard work were crucial elements in the conclusion of this Agenda. I should also like to place on r…
