It is indeed a great pleasure to speak at a meeting presided over by you, Sir. I would also like to congratulate the Secretary-General on his first report on the work of the Organization (A/62/1). The report, in clear and concise prose, at least lays out comprehensively the different issues that con…
On issues — even the reform of the United Nations — we have been guided by a principle and the general interest of the Members. On the issue under consideration also, India’s position is consistent and well known. It was among the first countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China and to su…
We join other delegations in recording our appreciation for the work you did, Madam President, during the sixty-first session of the General Assembly and, on this last day of that session, wish you with all our hearts good fortune in your future undertakings.
We joined the consensus on the adoption…
We thank the Secretary-General for his useful report (A/61/816) focusing on the progress made since the High-level Meeting on
HIV/AIDS a year ago. The report provides a good overview of the most recent developments in the global AIDS response and serves as a useful interim assessment pending the mo…
We thank the Secretary-General for his report on the recommendations of the High-
level Panel on United Nations System-wide Coherence (A/61/836) and you, Madam President, for having initiated this intergovernmental process, giving us the opportunity to comment mainly on the process of consideration…
I thank you, Madam, for convening this debate on the report of the Security Council and on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters.
I also thank the Permanent Representative of Qatar, my colleague Ambassador Al-Nasser, f…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month.
This discussion is timely, coming as it does in the midst of heightened international focus on Afghanistan and the surrounding region. Any discussion on Afghanistan must begin from …
I would like to thank the President for scheduling today’s discussion on the situation in Afghanistan. This meeting is a valuable opportunity to discuss a vitally important issue in the most representative organ of the United Nations, the General Assembly. We would also wish to place on record our a…
It is my privilege to speak in the debate on the agenda item on the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. I am grateful to the Member States of the Caribbean, who have worked to have this item inscribed on the agenda of the General Assembl…
We thank the Secretary-General for his reports on the integrated and coordinated
implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields.
We have to ensure the dialectic of the implementation of those conference…
We welcome resolution 61/16, on strengthening of the Economic and Social Council, and congratulate you, Madam President, on your leadership in bringing the negotiations on that resolution to a conclusion. Its adoption no doubt paves the way for the operationalization of the Council’s new functions, …
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for the reports that have been prepared for the discussions under this agenda item. We also thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Egeland, for the introduction of the reports. We appreciate the candid approach adopted in the report that identifies ar…
At the outset, I thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge
Rosalyn Higgins, for her detailed and comprehensive presentation of the report of the Court.
The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, is an important forum for the peace…
We congratulate you on your election, Madam, and on the efficient manner in which you have been conducting the work of the sixty-first session. We assure you of our constructive cooperation. We thank the Secretary-General for the comprehensive
overview of the Organization’s main achievements and ch…
I thank the President for convening this meeting. I am grateful for this opportunity — and for the very pleasant coincidence that I am speaking when you, Ambassador Diarra, are in the Chair once again, because you also happened to chair the last such debate in which I spoke (see A/60/PV.50). I think…
First of all, let me begin with a phrase used by Jawaharlal Nehru, who said that a
decisive moment is when an age ends and a new one begins. We have seen such a decisive moment this morning.
The United Nations has shown that, in spite of all its critics and the crescendo of criticism to which it h…
By adopting the resolution on the Peacebuilding Commission, we are implementing the decision taken by our heads of State or Government in September and meeting the deadline set out in the outcome document (resolution 60/1).
We compliment you, Mr. President, for your efforts, and the co-Chairs of th…
Let me begin by expressing my delegation’s appreciation to you, Madam President, for scheduling this discussion on an important subject at such short notice. We also thank you, as well as the President of the Security Council, the Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission, the Chairs of its country- …
I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for having scheduled this important debate on Afghanistan, providing as it does an opportunity for Member States to engage on this critical issue in the General Assembly. We therefore welcome the opportunity to participate in this discussio…
India has warmly welcomed the agreement concluded between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the Rafah border crossing for travel between Gaza and Egypt and for building a seaport in the Gaza Strip. We believe that that was a significant development that will go a long way
towards improving th…
