At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to express Egypt’s appreciation for your decision to include the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly in the main priorities and as an essential element of the Assembly’s theme at its sixty-fifth session, "Reaffirming the central role of the U…
The General Assembly is today taking up agenda item 36, “The situation in the Middle East”, emphasizing its inherent role in addressing the conflict and constant tension in the Middle East resulting from Israel’s illegal occupation of Arab occupied territories since 1967, and its refusal to accept t…
I have the pleasure to address the General Assembly today on behalf of the 118 States members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on agenda item 37, entitled “Question of Palestine”. Today is a very important day in that it coincides with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People…
I would like to express Egypt’s appreciation for the convening of this meeting to discuss the challenges of realizing the right to safe drinking water and sanitation. We welcome His Excellency Mr. Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and thank him for his initiative to …
I have the pleasure to address the Security Council on behalf of the Non- Aligned Movement, and to start by expressing the Movement’s appreciation to you, Sir, for having organized this debate. I also wish to thank Baroness Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Alain Le…
I wish to begin by expressing the appreciation of the delegation of Egypt to Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his presentation of the key elements of the report of the Agency on its activities in various fields. The report reflects the continue…
At the outset, I would like to express Egypt’s appreciation for the statement made by the President of the Human Rights Council before the General Assembly, following the statement he made yesterday at the general debate of the Third Committee on the report of the Council (A/65/53), which was submit…
At the outset, I have the pleasure of aligning myself with the statement made by the representative of Yemen on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and with that to be made by Malawi on behalf of the African Group.
Our meeting today comes less than a month after the High-level Plenary Meeting on t…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at this important meeting. The Non-Aligned Movement is composed of 120 countries, and if I take eight minutes for each of them, it will take up about one day to deliver my statement, but I am not going to do that.
This meeting, …
At the outset, on behalf of Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, allow me to express our deep appreciation for the initiative of the Secretary-General and the President in convening a meeting at this critical point to reaffirm the importance of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 10 yea…
I have the honour to address the Security Council today on behalf of the African Group and to start by expressing the Group’s appreciation to the Nigerian presidency and to you personally, Mr. Minister, for organizing this important debate focusing on the issue of optimizing the use of preventive di…
I have the pleasure today to address the Security Council on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. I will begin by expressing the sincere sentiments of solidarity and sympathy of the Movement’s members with the Government and the People of China as it tackles the consequences of the massive earthquake…
I have the pleasure of addressing the General Assembly on this important occasion on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Today we mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which provides a special opportunity for the international community to reaffirm its support for th…
At the outset, I would like to express to Ambassador Treki Egypt’s gratitude for making the issue of the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly one of the main priorities of his presidency during the Assembly’s sixty-fourth session. I also thank him for his commitment and determination t…
At the outset, I wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report (A/64/818) and for his efforts to strengthen the implementation of
the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Our thanks go also to the President of the General Assembly and to Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, Permanent…
It is with pleasure that I deliver this statement in my capacity as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). I would like to start by thanking Their Excellencies the President and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso for their initiative in calling for this important debate on drug traff…
Today, the General Assembly is considering the agenda item entitled “The situation in the Middle East”. In so doing, it exercises its inherent role in addressing the conflict in the Middle East region and the constant tension resulting from Israel’s illegal occupation of the Arab territories occupie…
I would like to express Egypt’s appreciation to the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for its valuable report on its work during the past year (A/64/341) and to the Secretary-General for his report on the work of the Peacebuilding Fund (A/64/217). We would like to express our thanks to His Excellency t…
I have the pleasure of speaking today on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement
in the general debate under agenda item 49, entitled “Culture of peace”, to convey the Movement’s full endorsement of the initiative to designate 18 July every year as Nelson Mandela International Day, as stipulated in draf…
With regard to operative paragraph 4 of the draft resolution, the Palestinian Authority itself declared that it is going to conduct its own investigation which is independent, credible and in conformity with international standards. And Hamas, which may be considered in Israel as a terrorist organiz…
