The delegation of the Republic of Belarus welcomes the draft resolution introduced by the United States under the item “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal”. Debate on this topic in the General Assembly is a unique opportunity for the United Nations to use the fu…
In our view, the Middle East peace process is now in the midst of one of the most difficult periods in its history of more than half a century. We are still feeling the consequences of the tragic events of September 2000 in East Jerusalem, which gave rise to a new destructive flood of bloodletting a…
In the course of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, the Republic of Belarus, along with the overwhelming majority of other States, voted in favour of resolution 55/20, on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America agai…
The debate under agenda item 20 (c), “Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster”, is taking place during this session of the General Assembly against the background of the fifteenth anniversary of…
The Republic of Belarus welcomes the Secretary-General’s report on assistance in mine action, as well as the coordinating role played by the United Nations in this area.
As a State whose territory was the site of intensive hostilities during two world wars, Belarus fully shares the mine-related hum…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus welcomes the draft resolution that has been introduced by the President of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session on the subject of today’s agenda item. We share the view of the vast majority of Member States that spoke in the general debate regardi…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus welcomes the discussion on the item of the dialogue among civilizations on the eve of the general debate of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. Such a schedule enables us not only to discuss this important agenda item at the current session, but…
The Belarus delegation would like to start by saying that despite the difficulty of the task facing us, some positive efforts have been achieved in the Open-ended Working Group on the issue of equitable representation on the Security Council, increasing its membership and other related matters.
Alt…
We first express our most sincere appreciation to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, for his presentation of the IAEA 2000 annual report. We consider this document, which is as comprehensive as usual, a valuable contribution to enhancing the…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus would like to join previous speakers in thanking the Ambassador of Ireland for having presented the periodic report of the Security Council to the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly.
The arguments made in the report deserve serious study and analys…
We welcome the decision of the most representative body of the United Nations and your personal efforts, Mr. President, to place the fight against international terrorism among the main and most urgent items on the agenda. There is no doubt that this will allow us to
define the most effective and t…
Yesterday, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, many Member States of the United Nations once again reaffirmed the urgent importance of holding discussions in the Assembly about the situation that has arisen on the West Bank of the River Jordan and in the Gaza Strip. I…
At the start of a new century and a new millennium, ensuring the universality of democratic principles and norms is
among the central objects of philosophical reflection, academic study and international relations. It is no accident that the hopes and aspirations of the peoples of the United Nation…
Today’s discussion of this question in the General Assembly underlines its importance for the United Nations. The need to solve the problem of reform the Security Council was reaffirmed by our heads of State or Government during the Millennium Summit and in the general debate of the fifty-fifth sess…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus is grateful to the Permanent Representative of India for introducing the draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”.
We also welcome the Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and t…
The Belarus delegation welcomes Ms. Benita Ferrero- Waldner, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to the General Assembly as we take up the item on cooperation between the United Nations and the OSCE.
The Republic of Belarus attaches special impor…
The Millennium Summit Declaration, the discussions held by heads of State and Government of Member States as part of the Summit, and the general political debates of
this session give eloquent proof of the significance of the problem we are discussing.
As we move from one century and one millenniu…
The delegation of the Republic of Belarus thanks Ambassador Andjaba of Namibia for having introduced the annual report of the Security Council to the current session of the General Assembly. We would also like to take note of the important role played last year by Namibia in the work of the Council.…
Since this is my first statement to the plenary of the General Assembly in my capacity as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus, allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the fifty-fifth session of this important body of the United Nations and to…
The Government of the Republic of Belarus attaches great importance to the agenda item on a culture of peace. As a State that has often suffered terribly from war and conflict through its history, we are vitally interested in developing and promoting all ideas on how to ensure a peaceful future for …
