The delegation of the Republic of Belarus welcomes the results of the negotiations on strengthening the Economic and Social Council, which led to the adoption of resolution 68/1.
The Economic and Social Council, under whose auspices meetings of the High-level Political Forum on
Sustainable Develop…
The Republic of Belarus attaches high priority to strengthening the role of the General Assembly. We support an enhanced role for the Assembly in resolving issues of international peace and security, in line with the United Nations Charter, and we want to maintain a balance between the principal org…
The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly has lately achieved some tangible results. Last year, we were able to work out the chart of General Assembly resolutions on revitalization (A/63/959, annex), which was used as the basis for analysing the reasons for the lack of i…
I shall be very brief. Belarus has great respect for the concerns of the delegation of Georgia, whose representative introduced draft resolution A/63/L.79. At the same time, however, we must note that it is based on resolution 62/249, in the voting on which more than 85 per cent of Member States eit…
The question of the revitalization of the work of the United Nations General Assembly is a priority matter for Belarus. This item is a topical one for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) as well, and Belarus fully supports the NAM statement.
The outcome of the negotiating process to revitalize the work …
We appreciate the tremendous work done by the Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General
Assembly, the Permanent Representatives of Ecuador and Norway, and their open-minded, goal-oriented approach. We would also like to commend the Member States and political groups…
My delegation’s statement is on agenda item 117 entitled, “United Nations reform: measures and
proposals”. The Belarusian delegation welcomes the management and organizational measures adopted to implement reform of the Secretariat and of the United Nations system overall. In 2006 Member States rec…
The delegation of Belarus would like to welcome the draft resolution entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula” (A/62/L.4), which was prepared jointly by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
The agreements that were reached between the Democ…
Belarus will not participate in the voting on draft resolution I, “Question of Western Sahara”. When the lines of division between our two good friends are so deep, we cannot help becoming hostage to the lack of understanding between them — and hostages’ hands are tied.
Issues such as that of Weste…
At the outset, the delegation of Belarus welcomes the statement made by the representative of Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
The need to preserve and strengthen the role of the Security Council as a central element in the maintenance of international peace and security is beyond questi…
