We congratulate you, Mr. President, on your decision to convene a discussion on this subject. The subject is timely. We are once again on the verge of significantly increasing the deployment of United Nations and associated personnel, and once again
The Convention on the Safety of United Nations an…
We would like once again to commend the Secretary-General for producing a comprehensive and thoughtful report on the work of the Organization. The challenges faced by the United Nations in recent years have become more complex, and so too have its responses. Indeed, the report is rich in details. We…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is clearly a landmark development in the history of man. On this there can be no doubt. It is remarkable that it took humankind several thousand years after the origins of human society to agree on a simple truth: “All human beings are born free and
Even if…
The key question on our minds today is a simple one: is the Y2K problem a serious one or is it not? What I hope to demonstrate in my remarks today is that this is a serious but not necessarily apocalyptic problem, unless we choose to ignore it.
By now the origins of the Y2K problem are well known. …
We have laboured for five hard years and put in countless hours in Working Group meetings. Yet it is clear that we are no nearer to a solution of the issue before us. Why is this so? The task we have been trying to accomplish could be compared to our trying to move a heavy boulder up a mountain. If …
