We congratulate you for assuming presidency of the Security Council for this month and wish you well in your endeavours. We would also like to extend through you, our gratitude to your predecessor, Ambassador Belinga- Eboutou for the sterling work that he did in the Council during the past month.
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As a sponsor of agenda item 175 — the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict — my delegation has requested the floor to remind the member delegations that the days of the “no questions asked diamond-buying policy” are over.
My delegation welcomes the draft resolution before us and hopes that its ado…
It has been stated on several occasions that any reform of the United Nations system will be meaningless if the Security Council remains untouched. For Africa, these words are not far from the truth. It had been the hope of this delegation that, by the end of this millennium, substantive progress wo…
On 23 July 1999, the people of Africa received the terrible news of the passing away of King Hassan II of Morocco. On this solemn occasion, and on behalf of the African Group, I wish to convey to His Majesty Mohamed VI, King of Morocco, to his entire family and, indeed, to the people of Morocco my h…
Let me begin by bringing to memory a comment, published in the New York Times of 29 May 1997, by Jeffrey Sachs of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Commenting on Kabila’s victory over Mobutu, Sachs declared that
“the West should save the morality lessons for later. First, the Uni…
I am making this statement on behalf of my Ambassador.
My delegation welcomes this opportunity to deliberate on the question of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU). We associate ourselves fully with the statements made by the Permanent Representative o…
