Allow me to thank you, Madame President, for having organized this debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2011/540) concerning recent events on the ground, as well as proposals to address the situation during the coming months. In addition, we would like to welcom…
Guatemala wishes to join the delegations that have expressed their horror at the attack carried out this morning in Abuja. We offer our profound condolences to the United Nations family and the Government and people of Nigeria.
Allow me, Sir, to thank you for having convened this open debate on the…
Resolution 65/265 adopted today refers not only to the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, but, equally importantly, to the United Nations, its various intergovernmental forums and the difficult dilemmas we sometimes face in reconciling the different principles and purposes contained in the Cha…
By now, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala is a familiar entity to the members of the General Assembly. Indeed, it gave rise to two resolutions during the past two years: resolutions 63/19 of 10 November 2008 and 64/7 of 28 October 2009.
The Assembly will recall that the Com…
Our President, Mr. Álvaro Colom Caballeros, participated in the High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (see A/65/PV.3) but had to return to Guatemala owing to commitments related to his high office. Similarly, our Minister for Foreign Affairs, who unexpectedly had to leave Ne…
We thank the Secretary-General for presenting his report on the work of the Organization (A/65/1) during the past year as we initiate this sixty-fifth session of
the General Assembly. We find the report to be complete and balanced, and, above all, it has suggestions regarding the major challenges t…
I have the honour to present, on behalf of the President of Guatemala and the Prime Minister of Kuwait, some of the highlights of the discussions in round table 2 on meeting the goals of health and education. The numerous statements covered diverse points of view and issues, and no attempt has been …
Guatemala welcomes the efforts made by the delegation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the other sponsors of resolution 64/292, as well as the flexibility shown even at the very last minute to come up with a text acceptable to the majority of countries. As a result, Guatemala would have pre…
We are still stunned by the unprecedented situation in Haiti in the face of the terrible catastrophe of 12 January, with its tragic material and, above all, human cost to the Government and people of Haiti and the United Nations. It was undoubtedly a watershed moment that requires us to reflect on e…
We align ourselves with the statements made by the representatives of Yemen and Chile, but we would like to add some thoughts from the national perspective in order to touch on one issue that has barely been mentioned in those statements. These thoughts — or perhaps it would be more appropriate to c…
Guatemala voted in favour of resolution 64/10. It was a decision we had to consider very carefully, because, like other delegations in this chamber, we noted certain flaws in the report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48) that the authors of the report acknowledge themselv…
On 10 November a year ago, I had the honour to explain from this very rostrum the origin of the International Commission against Impunity in
Guatemala (CICIG) — an initiative that complies with one of the many commitments of our Peace Accords signed in December 1996. I explained that we had inherit…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary- General for the presentation of his clear report on the work of the Organization (A/64/1). We note that the past 12 months, which have witnessed so many major
events throughout the world, are reflected in the diversity and intensity of the activit…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Madam, on your initiative to hold an open debate to discuss the question of Haiti, in anticipation of the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). I also wish to thank the Secretary- General for the presentat…
At the outset, let me thank the Secretary-General for his report on the work of the Organization, contained in document A/63/1. Beyond observing the formality of
keeping the General Assembly fully informed on the activities of the Secretariat, the document lays the groundwork for our intergovernmen…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. Guatemala would like to align itself with the statements delivered on behalf of the Rio Group, the Central American Integration System and the Non-Aligned Movement. We belong to all three groups. But we would like also to present our own national…
My delegation welcomes the convening of this important dialogue to promote and implement the Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace and to foster dialogue and cooperation between religions and cultures.
In thanking the presidency for organizing this meeting, we wish to express our appreciation t…
It has been several years since the General Assembly last addressed this agenda item, on the situation in Central America. That is, in fact, a source of satisfaction for us, since, in contrast to the situation of 15 or even 10 years ago, Central America is now a region at peace where democratic inst…
I would first of all like to associate myself with the statement delivered by the representative of Egypt, who spoke on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Secondly, I would like to thank and commend the Secretariat for the document entitled “Implementing the responsibility to protect”, which has b…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized a debate that, four years later, is beginning to follow up on the mandate given to us by our heads of State in 2005 in the Outcome Document (resolution 60/1) of the Summit held that year, specifically in paragraph 189.
On behalf of 66 d…
