I wish to express the delegation of Nigeria’s appreciation to the Secretary- General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his initiatives and efforts aimed at strengthening the United Nations. His efforts are consistent with the decisions and declarations of the Millennium Summit, at which our leaders pledged to ma…
On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as the President of the General Assembly at its
fifty-sixth session. We assure you and the other members of the Bureau of the support of the Nigerian delegation in ensuring that at this session the Assembly succ…
It is very ironic that a gift of nature so beautiful and precious as a diamond, a gem which is supposed to bring joy and happiness to its owners, has become an instrument for destabilization and insecurity. Recently, its possession and control have become one of the major causes of conflict in Afric…
Speaking on behalf of the Nigerian delegation and of the Group of 77, I wish to express our sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to congratulate you and your team on your outstanding work on the draft United Nations Millennium Declaration, a text of which we can all be proud and which und…
My intervention will be brief. I just want to make a simple request. Since this is an important resolution that we have just adopted with many oral revisions, can I request the Secretariat to ensure that we have clean copies of it by the end of the day? That is a request I want to address to the Sec…
I want to start with the issue of paragraph 11, which includes the list of intergovernmental organizations and others who can address the plenary. At the end, what was decided in our consultations at the last meeting was that all those who are making requests should be listed for all of us to see, a…
My delegation appreciates this opportunity to contribute to the discussion of agenda item 46, “Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa”. Peace is at the centre of development. Conflicts not only wreak havoc on the physical infrastructure of States …
