As is the custom, the General Assembly is today taking up the question of Palestine on the anniversary — the fifty-fifth — of the adoption of resolution 181 (II), which through the partition plan recognized the right of both peoples — the Jewish people and the Palestinian people — to self- determina…
The past year has been seminal in many ways for the African continent and for its relations with the international community. Not only have a number of major conflicts come that much closer to resolution, but the continent itself has taken dramatic steps to assert control over its own destiny for th…
I wish to congratulate the Secretary-General for his annual report on the work of the Organization and for his report on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration. It is no coincidence that, under his able stewardship, both he and the Organization were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This dist…
Mr. President, at the outset I would like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency for this month and to extend my congratulations to Ambassador John Negroponte on the outstanding manner in which he guided the deliberations of the Council last month. I would also like to thank the Se…
In the days between 30 March and 4 April, the Council adopted two resolutions on the situation in the Middle East — resolutions 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002) — in which it first and foremost reiterated its earlier calls for a meaningful ceasefire and placed specific demands on both parties to help bri…
At the outset, I would like to extend to you, Sir, my congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I also wish to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Sergey Lavrov, on his outstanding performance.
As Council members are aware, constructive discussions were hel…
Just over a week ago, the Security Council adopted resolution 1402 (2002), calling for a meaningful ceasefire, an end to all acts of terrorism and incitement, the withdrawal of Israeli troops and cooperation with American Special Envoy General Anthony Zinni in the implementation of Tenet
and Mitche…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, and to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Norway, for his most able leadership.
The Council meets today at a critical moment for the peoples of the Midd…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this renewed opportunity to take the floor. Consideration of the resolution that has just been adopted prompts us to make a few brief comments.
The reference to resolution 1397 (2002), in particular the appeal for an immediate ceasefire and fo…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to express my gratitude for his unshakeable faith in peace and for his statement, delivered moments ago, in which he indeed expressed this vision and this faith.
The latest horrific acts of Palestinian terrorism are occurring a…
I wish to thank the representatives of many delegations for their expressions of condolence and their condemnation and denunciation of Palestinian terrorism and for their appeals for the resumption of negotiations. We have noted with satisfaction that our appeal in the course of our explanation of v…
I am grateful for the opportunity to express my views on the voting on the draft resolutions on the question of Palestine.
Normally, this kind of voting hardly inspires us to offer an explanation, given how accustomed Israel has become to the unfailing ritual whereby it invariably finds itself, yea…
One year ago, I addressed this Assembly and described how history was giving birth to a new epoch in the Middle East. Today, we are experiencing the labour pains of that new era.
We are in the throes of a revolution in the ways that the peoples, nations and religions of the Middle East relate to on…
For the first time in years, we are debating the question of Palestine amid a seemingly hopeless cycle of violence that has turned back the clock to a more desperate period. The story of Israel is told through the histories of its many diverse people, their many countries of origin and their many la…
One year ago the leaders of the world gathered here in New York to write the history of the future, to reclaim the future for individuals, the people of the world, to whom our work belongs. Like the group that gathered in San Francisco 55 years earlier to establish this United Nations, our leaders u…
In this General Assembly discussion devoted to the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, I
thought it appropriate to include in my statement a brief introduction in Arabic.
Of course, my mastery of classical Arabic will forever remain imperfect. Having acquired the rudiments of this…
We have gathered this week to address a matter of the utmost urgency to the international community. On the morning of 11 September 2001, in the most devastating terror attack in history, a group of terrorists brought two towering symbols of our host city crashing to the ground and wrought havoc on …
At the outset, I would like once again to express my deepest condolences to the people of the United States and to all those affected by the devastating terrorist attacks of 11 September. The Government and the people of Israel, like people all over the world, were shocked and horrified by these tra…
At the outset, Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the Security Council and to congratulate your predecessor, the distinguished Permanent Representative of China, on his most able leadership of the Council.
My country, Israel, is a country that seeks peac…
I shall do so, Sir.
(spoke in French)
Syria is today preventing Lebanon from deploying its forces in southern Lebanon. It thus inspires and encourages Hezbollah and disrupts regional peace and stability, while claiming that it is acting in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. I think…
