I should like at the outset to thank the representative of the Republic of the Congo for convening this meeting of great importance for the international community. We also wish to thank the Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) for the…
We would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We would also like to express our gratitude to Ambassador Mayoral for his work during the month of March.
We endorse the comments made by the representative of Malaysia on …
The delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has not opposed the consensus, given our support for and solidarity with the peoples of Africa.
However, given our well-known position concerning the outcome document of the 2005 summit, we wish to express reservations concerning the third prea…
After having participated in laborious and difficult debates on this subject, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela wishes to express its total disagreement with draft resolution A/60/L.40, which creates the Peacebuilding Commission, the foundations and content of which threaten the attributes and po…
On 10 November 1975, the General Assembly adopted resolution 3376 (XXX), which established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Committee is charged with recommending a programme aimed at enabling the Palestinian people to exercise its inalienable ri…
We wish to express the commitment of the Venezuelan State to capacity- building in the area of public health. We firmly believe that the development and implementation of public health policy are among the main mechanisms for fighting poverty and social exclusion in our population.
In that connecti…
The delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela did not object to the consensus on draft resolution A/60/L.27, as orally revised, because our country fully supports the efforts being made to achieve peace and reconstruction in Afghanistan. Nonetheless, we are deeply concerned about the fragil…
Our delegation will present its explanation of vote on the two draft resolutions considered under the item “Oceans and the law of the sea”, contained in documents A/60/L.22 and A/60/L.23, for which we require a reasonable period of time.
With regard to the content of draft resolution A/60/L.22, our…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has participated in the adoption by consensus of resolution 60/7 and is in full agreement with the States that sponsored the resolution and endorsed the memorandum of explanation accompanying the draft resolution, which affirmed that the Holocaust constituted a s…
The delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela supports the statement by the representative of Uruguay on behalf of MERCOSUR and associated States. We would like, however, to join in congratulating Mr. ElBaradei on his re-election as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency…
With regard to agenda item 46, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to reiterate its commitment as a Member of the United Nations, to participate fully in the study of the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences an…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela supported draft resolution A/59/L.65. We would like to state for the record, however, that we are already in the process of implementing national plans in the area of human rights education. The World Programme for Human Rights Education, as adopted through the p…
The delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is prepared to endorse draft resolution A/59/L.63, which is before us for adoption, with a deep sense of solidarity with small island developing States.
Our delegation wishes to state that it dissociates itself from the content of operative par…
Through summit diplomacy, the 1990s created a framework for diagnosing, establishing and implementing a body of international conclusions that focused strictly on issues relating to development. Throughout the entire decade, the developed and developing countries moved towards consensus, sometimes r…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to be part of the consensus on draft resolution A/59/L.38, entitled “A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All; report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization”. However, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela considers…
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela wishes to express its view that outer space should be considered the common heritage of humankind, with respect to which no nation has or should have authority to claim subjective rights or to seek to create unilateral privileges. We are of the …
