The United States offers its warm congratulations to the International Labour Organization (ILO) on its centenary. The ILO has carried on its mission through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, the period of decolonization and the advent of the digital age. It outlived the Leag…
The United States is pleased to sponsor draft resolution A/61/L.27, on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. We have made great strides in controlling the flow of conflict diamonds since the late 1990s witnessed brutal atrocities in Africa. Governments have joined forces with the diamond indust…
