My delegation joins consensus on the resolution concerning humanitarian assistance to the Sudan because of the need to ensure that the international community is sufficiently seized with the humanitarian tragedy affecting that country. We continue to have concerns about the Government of the Sudan's…
While we are considering agenda item 30 today, I would like to make clear my delegation's deep disappointment and grave concern that the General Assembly has thus far failed to address its responsibilities, as set out in the report to the Secretary-General by the United Nations Task Force on Environ…
When President Clinton travelled to six African nations this past April, he heard at first hand about the efforts and accomplishments of the African people in writing a new chapter in the history of their continent. He met with economic leaders and business people who made clear in no uncertain term…
While we support many of the measures underlined in this resolution, we would have preferred more balance in the resolution on implementing the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF).
The Secretary-General’s progress report highlighted the fact that more nee…
I am speaking on behalf of Ambassador Betty King. The United States is pleased to support the draft resolution on the global implications of the year 2000 problem of computers. With only 389 days left until the new millennium is upon us, this is a topic that is of utmost concern to all of us.
Some …
I would like to note at the outset that I am limiting my statement to issues related to reform in the areas of environment and human settlements.
The United States supports efforts to improve programme quality and delivery in the environmental sector. We welcome the report of the United Nations Tas…
The United States is pleased to take the floor on this agenda item, which has received much attention in the past year. We welcome the conclusions of the humanitarian segment of the Economic and Social Council in July. The introduction of this agenda item into the session of the Economic and Social …
The Government of the United States would like to express its condolences to the family of President Abdoulkarim and to the people of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros.
We recall that at a time of our own national grief — the tragic crash of a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane in the Indi…
