Much has been said from this rostrum in recent years about global governance. Yet in fact there is a pervasive feeling that chaos is inexorably engulfing our planet. Indeed, one global crisis comes hard on the heels of another. International law is being shamelessly trampled. Inequality and poverty …
Yesterday and this morning a great many opinions have been voiced from this rostrum, including those related to such important issues as who was at fault and what has been the major impediment to progress for States of the world in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Those who single…
This General Assembly Hall is, in fact, the situation room of the entire world. It seems to me that over the years we here in this Hall have collectively understood and known what to do. The main thing now is to agree how to do it. We all need an effective tool.
There is hope that we are already cl…
All of us seated in this Hall witnessed the collapse almost two decades ago of a seemingly invincible international system based on the antagonism of two poles of power. It collapsed instantly. The system that ensued, based on the antagonism of one powerful pole to the rest of the world, is already …
It is generally considered that the struggle of ideologies has passed into history together with the collapse of the bipolar world order. Yet in reality the world continues a painful quest for a system of ideas that could ensure its security, justice and prosperity. The 2005 World Summit and the cur…
The summit of our leaders is over. Each of us here at the General Assembly has different feelings about it. Mine, I must say, are anxiety and hope. I am anxious not about the future of the United Nations as an Organization — its existence, after all, is not an end in itself — but about what the futu…
A few minutes ago this Hall shook with applause that resounded sadly in our ears. The statements by Venezuela and Cuba reflect that sadness; we understand the feelings articulated by those delegations.
The Charter of our Organization opens with the words “We the peoples of the United Nations”, but …
For decades now we have been hearing very disturbing questions from this rostrum: Where is our world heading?, Where is the United Nations going? At the dawn of the millennium those questions are becoming increasingly burning issues. The world has changed. The pendulum of history has swung to the ot…
To begin, I would sincerely like to congratulate you on your election to this very important and difficult position as President of the Assembly and I wish you every success.
This year, the United Nations has come close to the most dangerous brink in its more than a half- century of history. This i…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus has carefully studied the report of the Security Council presented to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. Our delegation is grateful to the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Sergey Lavrov, for having presented the report today.
We …
Belarus was among the three States that urged, several hours ago, that an immediate meeting of the Security Council be convened. The President of Belarus issued earlier this morning a statement strongly denouncing the decision of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to use military strikes …
