On behalf of the African Group, I wish to express our deep appreciation to the Secretary-General for his third consolidated report on progress in the implementation of and international support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), as contained in document A/60/178, and his repor…
I should like at the outset to associate myself with the statement made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The international community is still witnessing the continuous suffering of the people of Cuba as a result of the unjust economic, commercial and financial …
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to the Secretary-General for the reports before us.
The report on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) (A/59/206) lays out the various projects under way in the areas of infrastructure, health, education, agriculture and industria…
My delegation extends its appreciation and thanks to the President of the Security Council for the month of October for introducing the report (A/59/2) of the Security Council to the General Assembly. The report covers a wide range of activities, and I wish to highlight some of them.
We are pleased…
My delegation welcomes this joint debate on the agenda item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”, and the two draft resolutions thereunder, both of which Namibia is very happy to co-sponsor.
Namibia associates itself with the statement presented by the representative of Morocco on behalf of the…
My delegation associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Morocco, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. When the General Assembly adopted resolution 47/19 in 1992 on the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of Amer…
In his address at the beginning of this session of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General underscored the importance of collective action in addressing global challenges. He also emphasized the need for the effective functioning of major organs of the United Nations and the relationship between…
In his report contained in document A/58/136 the Secretary-General reveals that, in 2005 — when we review the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals — he, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), will present to the august Assembly a progre…
The Secretary- General’s report contained in document A/58/333 provides a useful basis for our discussion on the progress made in the implementation of the commitments we made to our children last year at the General Assembly’s special session on children. We thank the Secretary-General for the repo…
We welcome this debate on the report of the Security Council (A/58/2) and the report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Related to the Security Council (A/57/47 and Corr.1). As in pre…
At the outset I associate myself with the statement made this morning by the representative of Morocco on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
In his introduction to the reports on the work of the Organization and on follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals, the Secretary-General begins by ref…
My delegation associates itself with the statement just made by the Ambassador of Egypt on behalf of the African Group. We welcome the joint debate on the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report on the causes of conflict and the promotion …
Allow me, on behalf of my delegation, to express our heart-felt condolences to the Government and people of Indonesia and to the families of the victims of the explosion that took place in Bali. Our deepest sympathies also go to all the countries whose nationals were victims of this tragic event.
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The Secretary-General, in his address to the General Assembly, stressed the ever-increasing importance of multilateralism and the responsibility of Member States of the United Nations to uphold the principles embodied in the Charter of our Organization. For that, and for his reports on the implement…
The Millennium Summit did not address new problems or reveal new challenges hitherto unknown to mankind. What it did, however, was this: world leaders set goals to make the world better by, inter alia, removing the political and economic barriers that divide our world into a world of
the haves and …
At the outset, let me express my delegation’s appreciation to the Secretary- General for his note contained in document A/56/270. While the final review of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s will be conducted in the year 2002, my delegation…
Two weeks ago the General Assembly discussed the report of the Security Council. A significant number of Member States took part in that debate, which, in the view of my delegation, set the stage for the item before us today. I say this because the imperfections and shortcomings in the report of the…
On behalf of my delegation, I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I wish also to thank Ambassador Levitte of France for the effective way in which he guided the work of the Council last month. Our thanks and appreciati…
The Secretary- General’s report on the item under discussion is entitled “International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World”. This, indeed, is a fitting title, for it so ably encapsulates our common yearning for peace. The children of the world deserve no les…
Once again, the report of the Security Council is before the General Assembly, so that the members of this body can express their views on the responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security. This report, among other things, enables Member States to exam…
