First I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting and to associate myself with the words of welcome and thanks addressed to General Lamine Cissé, the Secretary-General’s Representative and Head of the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in the Central African Repub…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Sir, and your country, friendly Colombia, for having organized this open debate of the Security Council on the question of small arms. We also thank you for the very useful working document prepared by your delegation on this issue.
We also thank the Secretary-Ge…
My delegation would like, first and foremost, to thank Mr. Annabi for his exhaustive and useful briefing.
It is almost a year since the population of East Timorese expressed its will to begin a transition process towards independence under the authority of the United Nations. Today we would like to…
The General Assembly is considering today the question of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a matter that has been considered by the Assembly periodically and on which resolutions are adopted annually for the promotion of such cooperation.
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Tunisia thanks the Secretary-General for his thorough report on the work of the Organization over the past year. My delegation, which has studied the report closely, also followed with interest the statement by Mr. Kofi Annan to the General Assembly on 20 September 1999, when he presented his annual…
As we meet to assess the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development — a very important item for us — we recognize that the Summit has led to the creation of a new concept of social development. Its recommendations were a serious point of departure in our quest for new a…
Tunisia is happy to join the international community today in celebrating the International Year of Older Persons. My country welcomes the fact that 1999 — the last year of the century — is being celebrated under the banner of social solidarity to promote a society for all ages. This year is a miles…
