The General Assembly gathers this morning to eulogize the late Ismat Kittani. The record of his life is replete with distinguished and abundant diplomatic activity and achievement. He was the representative of his country, Iraq. He began his long, rich career as a diplomat in the Iraqi Foreign Minis…
I apologize for interrupting the proceedings. However, with respect to the information that was given earlier concerning the elections to the International Law Commission, I would like to confirm that Africa will be allocated nine seats this time. I do so because, in some of the texts of the Secreta…
I am taking the floor, Mr. President, to respond to your announcement in my capacity as coordinator of the African group of experts on economic matters — the Second Committee African representatives.
We are grateful to you for the appointment of the Permanent Representative of Pakistan and the reap…
I have taken the floor to correct an error in paragraph 1 of the
draft resolution which we are about to adopt, because the Arabic text of this paragraph indicates that it would be preferable if this session took place in May 2000. What we need to say here is “2001”. I would like to ask the Secretar…
The delegation of Sudan has requested the floor in order to express its gratitude to all our partners from the donor community that agreed to support this resolution by consensus on the basis of its humanitarian nature. We thank them and appreciate their cooperation in achieving consensus on the res…
