The Arab Group submitted a draft resolution which it believes to be simple and capable of meeting the aspirations of the international community. It would avoid complications and address the situation on
the ground and the tragic events in the region brought about by Israel’s killing and destructio…
We would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this important meeting to consider the situation in brotherly Somalia.
We join in the welcome extended by preceding speakers to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Somalia, Mr. Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim. We support the statement to be made by the Permanent …
My delegation is pleased to see you, Sir, presiding over this important meeting of the Security Council. This is clear proof of the great importance that Norway attaches to the question of the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I would like to express our appreciation to Mr. Kofi Annan, the Sec…
I should like at the outset to convey to you, Mr. President, my sincerest thanks and gratitude for your quick response to the request of the Arab Group
to convene this session of the Security Council to consider the extremely dangerous situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jeru…
At the outset, my delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open meeting to consider the humanitarian situation in Angola.
We would also like to thank Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his detailed an…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Secretary- General for his report on the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). We also welcome Ms. Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, and Mr. John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, to today’s important debate.
We also wis…
Mr. President, it is a pleasure for me to congratulate you on your election as President of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. I am convinced that your previous posts in your country and the respect you enjoy will facilitate your task of guiding the work of this session to the desired …
I would have wished not to have to use the right of reply again on this issue. I had really hoped that the representative of Israel would not have used the right of reply in the light of the voting that he witnessed today.
After being indicted and condemned for the crimes it perpetrates every day, …
This meeting of the General Assembly is being held to discuss the two points on the agenda concerning the situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine. The situation is complex and threatening and tensions are on the rise. The blood of the martyred and the wounded continues to flow abu…
I am pleased to extend my thanks and appreciation to you, Mr. President, to your predecessor, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, and to the two Vice-Chairmen of the Open-ended Working Group, Ambassador de Saram and Ambassador Dahlgren, for their efforts and wisdom in attempting to reach a consensus on the questi…
Thank you, Sir. I do not really want to play ping-pong. I am not very good at the game. I do not want to get into an argument with you, but nevertheless, if this is your explanation, why then should we have this sentence about no verbatim records? Surely, it would be enough to have one single senten…
As a matter of fact, I have a few simple comments with regard to paragraphs 10 and 11 of the annex. My delegation was one of the delegations that has asked for oral and written minutes to be provided for the meetings of the round tables.
As regards paragraph 10, in addition to the consensus that th…
It is an hour of sorrow, especially since I have closely known the father and the great leader President Hafez Al-Assad.
Allow me, Sir, on behalf of the people and Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, to express to you our profound thanks and appreciation for your sincere words paying tribute to…
Today, the General Assembly is again debating one of the most important issues before it: the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters.
At the outset, I wish to express our appreciation to the President of the General Assembl…
Our debate on the dialogue among civilizations is taking place on the eve of a new millennium. When we speak of civilizations, we must speak of the various cultures that are the primary source that enriches civilizations. Culture, in one of its principal definitions, is the intellectual, behavioral,…
The international community fully recognizes that the Middle East peace process, which was launched in Madrid in 1991, was based on the implementation of internationally legitimate resolutions, especially Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), as well as Security Council resolution …
For the eighth consecutive year, the General Assembly is considering the item on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.
The blockade that has been imposed against Cuba for more than four decades has caused that co…
First, the Assembly has heard, not for the first time, statements by the Israeli representative against peace — statements based on the falsification of facts and attempts to mislead the international community. The statement by the Israeli representative yesterday was but an expression of the polic…
