Thank you, Mr. President, for the honour of introducing draft resolution A/55/L.38/Rev.1, entitled “International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters from relief to development”, on behalf of its original sponsors, the Group of 77 and China, and Mexico.
Nigeria …
I am speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China on agenda item 30, “Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda
for the Development of Africa in the 1990s”. I would first of all like to congratulate the Secretary-General on a very enlightening progress report. We commend the report for stu…
I should like first of all to convey to you, Sir, the warm greetings of my Ambassador, Chief Arthur Mbanefo, and his regret for his inability to be present here personally because of other, more pressing engagements. Accordingly, I am delivering this statement on his behalf.
I have the honour to sp…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, Nigeria would like to convey its appreciation for the convening of this meeting on yet another sad occasion, in connection with the cyclone that struck Madagascar, a developing State Member of this Organization. Not very long ago, we gathered to express our so…
Concerning our deliberations on the resolution that has just been adopted, we want to have it on record that the following slight amendment would have been added to the text. After the last preambular paragraph, would have been added:
“Taking note further of the Economic and Social Council presiden…
On behalf of the Group of 77 and China, we commend the initiative to convene this meeting to discuss the tragic situation in Mozambique, which resulted from the unprecedented floods that have been unleashed on that country and some of its neighbours since February. We should also like to take this o…
On account of unforeseen circumstances, and considering that copies of our statement have been duly filed with the Secretariat since yesterday morning, when we were to have spoken, my Ambassador, the Permanent Representative of Nigeria, has sent me to deliver the statement of the Nigerian delegation…
