I am grateful for this opportunity to address the General Assembly on agenda item 13, “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”.
Many developing countries are vitally dependent on their natural resources for achieving their development goals. Yet, ironically, those very natural resources have ser…
We are pleased to participate in the debate on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly and to associate ourselves with the position of the Non-Aligned Movement as expressed by the delegation of Algeria.
The General Assembly is the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative o…
India has consistently favoured the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples. We were supportive of the efforts made in the framework of the Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights to elaborate a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. The fact that the Wor…
India supports efforts aimed at a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to the question of Western Sahara. We believe that such a solution can be reached through dialogue in a spirit of cooperation. We share the sense of disappointment that it was not possible to work out a consen…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report (A/61/483), which provides a useful background for our consideration today of the issue of revitalization of the General Assembly. The position of the Non-Aligned Movement on this topic has been expressed by Cuba, and it has my delegation’s full support…
Thank you, Madam President, for scheduling sufficient time for a discussion on an issue that warrants the attention of the international community to the extent that few others do: the question of Palestine, set, as it is, in the larger context of the situation in the Middle East.
We have listened …
At the outset, I should like to congratulate the two Co-Chairs, the Permanent Representatives of Singapore and Spain, who have put forward several successive draft resolutions since May of this year in order to produce a final text that we could all live with.
Ideally, my delegation would have like…
At the outset, I would like thank Ambassador Hadi Nejad Hosseinian, Permanent Representative of Iran, for introducing the draft resolution before us and for the efforts undertaken by Iran in pursuing this theme over the past two years.
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his succinct r…
I compliment the Secretary-General on the comprehensive nature and the thought-provoking quality of the report (A/55/350 and A/55/350/Add.1) before us. We have read those documents with great interest and believe that the thorough examination and implementation of the recommendations contained there…
