My delegation wishes to express its gratitude to the President for convening this second phase of the informal consultations on the preparatory process for the high-level plenary meeting scheduled for September this year. We read with great care, and took note of, the well-written summary of his obs…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) — Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe — as well as the candidate …
Botswana welcomes the report of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) submitted to the President of the General Assembly by the outgoing Chair, South Africa, in compliance with resolution 57/302 of 15 April 2003 (A/58/623). The said resolution requested the Chair of the Kimberley Process…
First of all, I should like to thank the Secretary-General for his two reports, on progress made in implementation of the programme of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) (A/58/254) and on implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the …
Botswana, as a co- convener of the Kimberley Process, is delighted that the General Assembly is meeting once again to consider the agenda item “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict” and, more importantly, to consider the draft resolution before us. Members will recall that the General Assembly …
My delegation joins this debate with the hope that, in addition to reviewing progress that we have made so far, we will take time to reflect on the obstacles that we have encountered, then map out a new strategy for the implementation of the political commitment that we undertook in the Declaration …
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session, and for the excellent manner in which you have conducted our deliberations thus far. You will certainly be able to count on the full support and cooperation of the d…
