Almost 70 years ago, this Organization, the United Nations, was founded with the aim of, among other things, saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war, reaffirming faith in fundamental human rights and promoting social progress and better standards of living in larger freedom. It has sin…
At the outset, I congratulate you, Mr. President, and the United States delegation on your leadership of the Security Council this month. I would also like to thank you, Sir, for organizing and presiding over this important and timely debate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing.
The dreadful terrorist attacks around the world have continued to highlight the need for collective and resolute action to counter and eliminate this evolv…
In September 2000, we unanimously adopted the comprehensive Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2), committing our nations to a partnership for a peaceful, prosperous and just world. The driving force of this partnership lies in combating the causes and effects of poverty through the achievement o…
Allow me at the outset to extend our congratulations to Mr. Kerim on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- second session. I wish to thank most sincerely his predecessor, Her Excellency Sheikha Haya Rashed Khalifa of Bahrain, for the able manner in which she handled th…
Let me first of all congratulate Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. I am confident that, with her wealth of experience, she will guide our deliberations effectively. I wish also to thank her predecessor, Mr. Jan Eliasson o…
On behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, I would like to congratulate the People’s Republic of China on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April 2006.
Members will recall that, during the Security Council debate in January 2006 on the situation in the Great Lak…
I should like first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the General Assembly at this important session, at which we pledge our full cooperation. I also wish to thank your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, for having conducted the proceedings of the fifty-ninth session so effi…
