Luxembourg welcomes the initiative of the United States in organizing this Security Council debate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region. The moment is particularly significant, and your presence, Mr. Secretary, lends it special weight.
I thank Secretar…
Allow me to warmly thank the President for organizing this debate on children and armed conflict. As you know, my country attaches great importance to the issue and has done so for many years.
I would like to pay tribute to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed …
The past two centuries saw the abolition of slavery. Our century must put an end to trafficking in persons, which, at this very moment, on every continent, keeps millions of children, men and women in a state of servitude. The United Nations must play its full role in this new fight. Today’s high-le…
I would like to thank you personally, Mr. President, and
your country, Togo, for having organized under your presidency today’s important debate on the challenges of the fight against terrorism in Africa in the context of maintaining international peace and security. I firmly believe that your stat…
As this is the first time that Luxembourg is taking the floor in a public meeting of the Security Council, allow me, Madam President, to congratulate your country, Pakistan, on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of January 2013. I also thank you for having organized this o…
I wish to express my appreciation, Mr. President, for the Guatemalan initiative to organize this open debate on the subject of peace and justice, with special focus on the role of the International Criminal Court.
There can be no lasting peace without justice. That statement resonates throughout th…
Mr. President — my dear friend Vuk Jeremić — allow me to commend the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for the reports guiding our work today, and to welcome Mr. Maged Abdelaziz, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa, to whom I wish every success in his new role.
The reports befor…
We are gathered here today for an event whose importance cannot be overestimated. The High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels is indeed the first of its kind, and we are grateful to the Secretary-General for having launched this importan…
Luxembourg is very pleased that the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, was able for the first time to address this Assembly on behalf of the European Union (see A/66/PV.15), and I align myself fully with his statement.
Never before has the United Nations been so indispensable; ne…
I would of course like to fully align myself with the statement made by Commissioner Dalli on behalf of the European Union.
This first High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases goes back to an initiative taken by the Caribbean Community, w…
This High-level Meeting on youth is indeed most timely. Over the past few months, in the Middle East and North Africa, educated young people — many of them graduates who nonetheless faced unemployment and the inability of their leaders to offer them a future — have mobilized to reclaim rights and li…
The values upon which the Organization was founded, 65 years ago, are still appropriate for overcoming the global challenges we face today. Whether in fighting poverty, protecting the environment and conserving biodiversity, building peace in conflict areas, helping populations affected by natural d…
I believe it is fair to say that we have just come through an annus horribilis: a year marked by the worldwide financial and economic crisis, the worst since the Great Depression of 1929; by an increase in hunger and poverty — we are speaking about some 100 million more people sinking into hunger an…
“[We] will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights” (A/59/2005, para. 17). In this year when we celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that fundamen…
Year after year the international community meets in New York in September to debate the major issues of concern to humankind. This traditional encounter is of special importance in that it enables us to grasp very directly and intensively, in all their complexity, the challenges that confront us, b…
Two years ago, at this same rostrum, as the conclusion of my statement (see A/59/PV.10), I quoted these famous verses of the Spanish poet Antonio Machado:
“Traveller, your footsteps Are the road, and nothing else; Traveller, there is no road. The road is made by walking; Walking makes the road.…
Sixty years ago, on 26 June 1945, the Charter of the United Nations, which created the Organization and whose humanist and generous spirit continues to inspire our action to the present day, was signed in San Francisco. That fundamental and innovative act — the lesson drawn by the international comm…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Madam, on your election and to wish you much luck and courage in the very important and interesting task before you.
The commitment of the European Union and its member States to help the least developed countries (LDCs) has already been demonstrated. Ind…
It is a special honour for me, as a member of the new Government of Luxembourg and its Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration, to take the floor for the first time before this gathering of the nations of the world.
You, sir, have acceded to the presidency of the General Assembly at a time whe…
