The question of the Middle East continues to be a source of great concern for the international community, which remains convinced that world peace depends to a great extent on the settlement of that question.
It is therefore with great satisfaction that we Senegalese welcomed in May the decision o…
This year, like the past seven years, the General Assembly is again considering the report of the Open-ended Working Group on Security Council reform.
First, Mr. President, I wish to congratulate your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Namibia, as well…
The annual consideration by the General Assembly of the state of cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter- Parliamentary Union testifies to the very special interest that the international community accords to the two organizations, which collaborate in various areas of activity, within …
I am confident that I express the opinion of all members when I say that the discussion on this agenda item should have taken place in a more relaxed atmosphere. Nevertheless, we are all aware that since Christmas 1999, right up to the recent regrettable events, thousands of people have flocked from…
I wish to begin by associating myself with the statement made by the Ambassador of Togo, the country currently presiding over the Organization of African Unity
(OAU). I also wish to congratulate the Secretary- General on the quality and relevance of his report on cooperation between the United Nati…
Allow me at the outset to extend the condolences of my delegation to the fraternal and friendly country of Singapore following yesterday’s Singapore Airlines aeroplane accident. I also wish to express condolences to the families of all of the victims.
Mr. Mungra (Suriname), Vice-President, took the…
The twenty- fourth special session of the General Assembly on the follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development was an opportunity for the international community to reaffirm the 10 commitments it undertook five years ago in Copenhagen. It was also an opportunity; however, for the 178 countri…
I should like first of all to convey my delegation’s congratulations to my brother and friend, Ambassador Martin Andjaba of Namibia. As President of the Security Council for October, he introduced with his usual clarity and precision the annual report of the Security Council covering the period 16 J…
Let me begin by noting that today’s meeting on the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/55/1) is unique because it is taking place just following the historic Millennium Summit, which brought together in this very Hall an unprecedented 150 heads of State or Government, …
My country was one of the sponsors of the draft resolution, adopted unanimously on 5 September of this year, on including the question of HIV/AIDS on the agenda of the fifty-
fifth session and on convening, in 2001 a special session devoted solely to combating this scourge in all its aspects.
My d…
For the sixth consecutive year, the General Assembly is called on to consider 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. Since 3 December 1993, whe…
Allow me first of all to congratulate the Secretary-General on the quality of his report (A/54/484) on agenda item 31, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the
In the political and security field, this cooperation has reached a decisive turning point because of the impetus provided …
Allow me first of all to say how delighted I am by the presence of the Secretary-General, and to thank him for his important introductory statement, which contains important proposals of great political import for Africa and its future.
Almost 20 years ago, the former President of North- South Comm…
The World Summit for Children, held at New York in 1990 and attended by the head of State of Senegal, His Excellency President Abdou Diouf, was an unprecedented historic meeting. It was historic in terms of the calibre and high level of the participants. It was historic also in terms of its results.…
I should like to comment on draft resolution A/54/L.45. I should simply like to say that the penultimate preambular paragraph of the draft resolution contains a typographical error. The end of the paragraph should read, “including the donor meeting held at Tokyo, on 14 and 15 October 1999”. This is …
As we have all noted, the peace process in recent years has made significant strides, but, disquietingly, ever since the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Israel in Washington, D.C., in 1993, it …
I wish to thank the Secretary-General for the quality of his report and for the thoughtfulness and work he put into it.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has more than 50 member States, representing one fifth of the world’s population throughout all the continents. This almost univer…
Allow me at the outset to convey the congratulations of my delegation to Ambassador Lavrov of the Russian Federation, who, as President of the Security Council for the month of October, has submitted to us the annual report of the Council, in keeping with Article 24, paragraph 3, of the Charter.
I …
May I begin by expressing my gratitude to the Secretary-General for the quality of his report on the work of the Organization, a report which is both concise and complete. Once again, as he has always done, the Secretary-General has sketched out for us an unvarnished picture of the situation of a wo…
The Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, adopted four years ago, noted:
“We are witnessing in countries throughout the world the expansion of prosperity for some, unfortunately accompanied by an expansion of unspeakable poverty for others. This glaring contradiction is unacceptable and nee…
