Allow me to begin by thanking the President of the General Assembly, on behalf of my country’s delegation, for the efforts he has undertaken as he presides over this
session of the General Assembly. We are confident that the work of this session will be successful and fruitful.
It is my honour, on…
Given the lateness of the hour, I beg the Assembly’s indulgence. I will not be very long.
Once more, Algeria has given us a deliberately biased and narrow viewpoint on the question of the Sahara. This time, that viewpoint borders on the ridiculous, proceeding as it does with a deliberately selectiv…
At the outset, and as this is the first time I take the floor in the plenary, allow me to congratulate Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on his accession to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session and on the initiatives he has undertaken to mobilize Member States to confront th…
I am gratified to express the pleasure of the Kingdom of Morocco at the decision taken by this Assembly to hold a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS. We welcome this opportunity to reiterate our strong commitment to combating that disastrous pandemic and our full support for the Millennium Development G…
At the outset, allow me to address, on behalf of my delegation, my sincere thanks to the Secretary-General for the two reports presented under agenda item 12 (A/62/296 and A/62/302), which give us an overview of the activities and initiatives undertaken by the United Nations system to support the ef…
My delegation wishes to thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his report entitled “Sports for Development and Peace: the way forward” (A/61/373). We welcome the relevant information contained in that report, in particular the Action Plan, which provides a road map for the next three years to streng…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to thank the UNESCO for the quality of its report (see A/61/175) and for the relevant information it contains. The holding of this debate is an opportunity for the international community to assess initiatives taken so far to promote a culture of peace and to deve…
