The beginning of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly coincides with the preparations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), chaired by my country, to celebrate 50 years of achievements. During those years, the Movement has greatly helped to reinforce international and multilateral action und…
Mr. President, on behalf of the African continent, allow me at the outset to congratulate our sisterly country, Libya, and you personally, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly, and to express our confidence that your leadership will lead to achieving the success to which we a…
I should like to express our deep thanks and gratitude to you — my friend, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner — and your friendly country for the efforts that you have undertaken. I would like to say that we are truly and completely satisfied and reassured that the Council has finally succeeded in ad…
It is 10 days since the start of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip. It is 10 days since the start of an operation of killing and methodical destruction by Israel against the people of Gaza. It is 10 days, and Israel is telling us daily that it is about to achieve its military ob…
The sixty-third session of the General Assembly is taking place against the backdrop of various international and regional events and developments that are closely linked to the peace and security of all humankind. Among those are the global food crisis, the increase in energy prices, global warming…
Six years ago, in September 2001, we, the representatives of the international community, stood united and in solidarity in the face of international terrorism. In all our languages, faiths and cultures, we expressed our condemnation of any terrorist act that targets innocent civilians. We denounced…
Madam President, allow me today to pay a special tribute to Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of our Organization, for the important role he has played over the past ten years in upholding the lofty principles and values on which this Organization was founded. During the same period, Mr. Annan d…
At this session we celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations. We also begin, actively and seriously, our effort to revitalize this strong Organization, which humankind decided to establish after it experienced two devastating wars during the first half of the twen…
It gives me pleasure to deliver the statement of Mr. Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary.
In September 2000, we identified our common vision for the future of the United Nations…
Today’s meeting is especially important given the urgent need to assess what has actually been achieved by way of national and international commitments in the sphere of financing for development. For developing countries, development is a basic condition for emerging from hunger, poverty, disease a…
It gives me pleasure to address the General Assembly today not only on behalf of Egypt, but also on behalf of the African Group at the United Nations, which Egypt has the honour to preside over this month. Egypt has always been fully cognizant of the deep ties that unite it with the African continen…
It is a great pleasure to have Mr. Jean Ping presiding over the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. I am confident that his wealth of experience and the friendly ties that his sisterly country enjoys with all countries of the world will be a major asset for the Assembly as it discharges its…
The question of Palestine is today at an extremely important and sensitive juncture — as sensitive and critical a juncture as that in 1947 when the General Assembly adopted its resolution to partition Palestine into two States for two peoples: one for the Israelis and the other for the Palestinians.…
Egypt condemns and deeply deplores extrajudicial assassinations of Palestinians by the Israeli army, in contravention of all humanitarian considerations and the norms of international humanitarian law, the latest of which was the assassination of Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi.
With such illegal acts, Israe…
The delegation of Egypt thanks the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Oman and the Omani delegation for their vigorous efforts to mobilize international support in addressing the global road safety crisis. Egypt is a sponsor of draft resolution A/58/L.60/Rev.1, which is before the Assembly this morning…
This year the General Assembly is again addressing the question of the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict and reaffirming the need to continue international collective action, under United Nations auspices, to study the root causes of conflicts in all their aspects, particularly in Africa, where …
Egypt has expressed with utmost clarity its unequivocal condemnation and total rejection of the reprehensible operation undertaken by Israel in its extrajudicial
assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Egypt has made clear its opinion that this was both an illegal and an irresponsible act that failed…
The report of the Secretary-General on the progress achieved in the implementation of the recommendations of the Security Council mission to Central Africa (S/2004/52) reflects something that my delegation would like to emphasize today before the Security Council, namely, that despite the signs of p…
I promise that I shall keep within the five-minute time limit allotted to each speaker, even if that should mean stopping in the middle of my statement.
I wish to raise a number of issues in my comments on the progress report of the Secretary-General on the Security Council mission to West Africa.
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The Egyptian delegation is pleased to attend this meeting under your presidency, Sir, in order to discuss a vital issue that affects every continent — although the continent of Africa, to which Egypt belongs, is the most severely affected: there, wars and conflicts are further fuelled by small arms …
