Allow me first of all to fulfil the pleasant duty of extending to you, Sir, on
behalf of my delegation and in my personal capacity, my warm and sincere congratulations on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council.
I also wish to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative o…
The Security Council has unanimously adopted the resolution on the second phase of the deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC).
My delegation is all the more gratified that this decision, which is a significant step towards achieving pea…
I do not intend to launch into polemics. I would simply like to reply briefly to the statements made by the representatives of Rwanda and Uganda.
I shall start by saying that, indeed, there was genocide in Rwanda, and 500,000 people met their deaths in the course of that genocide, which took place …
I would first like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to lead the work of the General Assembly during its fifty-fourth session.
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“Items on the agenda may be amended or deleted by the General Assembly by a majority of the members present and voting.”
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I have asked to take the floor again not to respond to the distortions of the truth by the delegations of the aggressor countries, but merely to shed some light on facts that speak for themselves.
The history of the Congo River basin since 1885 has been marked by a number of assaults on the human r…
It is under the relevant provisions of Article 35 of the Charter of the United Nations and article 15 of the provisional rules of procedure of the General Assembly that my country requested the inclusion of an additional item entitled “Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo” o…
One year from the dawning of a new millennium, while the international community celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there is hardly any need to recall that my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the subject of an armed aggression that is j…
This morning the Assembly heard a statement by the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda. When the aggression began, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo condemned Uganda’s involvement in its territory, and Ugandan authorities denied outright that t…
On behalf of the delegations of Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China, Cyprus, the Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Mali, Mongolia, Niger, Peru and Rwanda and of my own delegation, I have the honour of introducing the draft resolution contained in document…
