The world is watching with grave concern the unfolding disaster in Pakistan, whose dimensions we continue to ascertain. The floods, which began more than three weeks ago, have affected about one fifth of the area of the country, with disastrous effects on its agricultural heartland. The scale of the…
Members may recall the report of the Secretary-General entitled “World Statistics Day” contained in document E/CN.3/2010/12, which relayed a proposal to organize World Statistics Day on 20 October 2010 in order to celebrate the many achievements of official statistics. At the recently concluded fort…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his note transmitting the report on improving global road safety (A/64/266), prepared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the United Nations regional commissions and other partners of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboratio…
At the outset, my delegation would like to express its thanks and appreciation to you, Mr. President, for holding this plenary meeting of the General Assembly to consider the report of the Human Rights Council on its twelfth special session (A/64/53/Add.1) and Council resolution S-12/1, as part of t…
Five years ago, during the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly, I stood before this Assembly to introduce resolution 57/309 on the global road safety crisis. It was a very modest resolution; all it asked was a report on the global road safety crisis from the Secretary-General for considera…
Since our discussion on road safety in this very Hall last April 2004, another 1.2 million people have been killed on our roads worldwide, and another 20 to 50 million have been injured or disabled. These are startling figures. Yet, they have not made headlines like, say, a plane crash would.
The g…
The General Assembly is for the very first time discussing another rapidly growing epidemic — that of globa road l traffic deaths
and injuries. The Secretary-General’s report (A/58/228) contains very alarming statistics. It was just over a hundred years ago that the first road traffic death occurre…
At the outset, my delegation would like to join the Acting President in expressing sincere condolences to the Governments and the peoples of Algeria and Sri Lanka for the tragic loss of life in the flooding in Sri Lanka and the earthquake in Algeria.
As I stand before the Assembly, somewhere in the…
Allow me first of all to thank you, Sir, and the other members of the Security Council for quickly agreeing to the request of the Group of Non-Aligned States to hold this open meeting to study the report presented by the heads of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission …
My delegation has had no difficulties in the past in supporting resolutions on cooperation between the United Nations and the
Council of Europe. Regrettably, a new element — one on the abolition of the death penalty — was introduced in the draft resolution this year. This runs counter to our laws a…
Allow me, first, to extend my congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the Presidency of the Council and to wish you well as you continue to lead the Council in the coming weeks. I would also like to thank Ambassador Belinga-Eboutou of Cameroon for the excellent manner in which h…
I wish to express my sincere congratulations to Mr. Han Seung-soo on his assumption of the presidency of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. We are confident that his skills, competence and experience in international affairs will facilitate his task of leading and enriching the work of…
The General Assembly is meeting today to discuss a matter of utmost importance and seriousness: measures to eliminate international terrorism, which coincides with present incidents and world developments that have never before been witnessed. The world was shocked by the events of 11 September, and…
On this historic day, I am grateful for the honour bestowed upon me as Chairman of the Group of Asian States to express our congratulations to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, on his reappointment.
The Member States of the Asian Group have unwaveringly favoured the enhan…
At the outset I express on behalf of my delegation our sincere gratitude and appreciation to Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General, for his annual report on the work of the Organization, an important report that deserves the attention of the Assembly.
We share the view expressed by the Secretary- G…
At the outset, I should like to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his report contained in document A/54/1. It is indeed an important document that deserves the attention of this Assembly. What makes this year’s report deserve special consideration is the fact tha…
As we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights, it is an opportune time for the international community to reinforce w…
On behalf of the Group of Asian States I have the distinct honour to join other members of the General Assembly in paying a special tribute to the memory of the late President of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim. Mr. Abdoulkarim had a distingui…
