In ordinary times, our debate on Security Council reform is, to paraphrase the great Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a chronicle of a foretold debate. All those who have followed the course of our discussions on this topic, which now appears for the eighth time on our annual agenda, know, …
My Government feels deep and special concern over the situation that the draft resolution before us, of which we have the honour of being one of the sponsors, seeks to correct, or at least to attenuate.
We wish to explain briefly the reasons for this feeling.
As is widely known, Guatemala is privi…
For the last seven years, the Member States of the United Nations have been endeavouring to reform the Security Council, an organ whose composition and modalities of work reflect the international order created at the end of the Second World War, 55 years ago. In the world in which we now live, that…
The resolution that we have just adopted on agenda item 170 does not fall within the Organization’s routine. In the first place, its purpose is to finance an operation that was in turn the result of an event whose origin raised many questions, some of them unprecedented in the field of international…
