My delegation commends the Secretary-General for his reports and for his statement to the General Assembly on 23 September on the work of the Organization. The reports paint a chequered picture of progress and setbacks in addressing the challenges facing the United Nations and the wider internationa…
Throughout the three and- a-half decades of its existence as an independent State, Guyana has stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for the exercise of their inalienable rights, including the right to self- determination and to a homeland of their own. Today, we once agai…
Guyana is pleased to join sister South American republics in co-sponsoring draft resolution A/57/L.7, on the South American zone of peace and cooperation. We welcome and support the timely initiative of the delegation of Peru to include this item on the agenda of the present session of the General A…
The subject of HIV/AIDS is of great importance and concern to Guyana. Being part of the Caribbean region, which has the second highest incidence of HIV/AIDS infection in the world, and faced with a very serious problem in our own country, we are pledged to exerting every effort at all levels — natio…
It is a distinct honour for me, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, Mexico and sponsors, to introduce draft resolution A/54/L.74, entitled “International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters from relief to development”, for consideration and adoption by the As…
It is not my intention to interrupt the flow of discourse on this issue. I would like to raise a point of order in relation to the report just presented by the Rapporteur, whom we thank profoundly for the excellent work he has done in that capacity in the Second Committee.
I just wish to draw the a…
