My delegation joined the consensus on the resolution just adopted, entitled “Credentials of representatives to the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly” (resolution 65/237). However, I would like to express my delegation’s reservations on any part of the report
contained in document A/65/583…
My delegation joined the consensus today on resolution 65/137, just adopted, on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. In fact, since the very first iteration of the resolution, my delegation has fully supported its main objective of breaking the link between the illicit trade in rough diamonds …
I should like to express my gratitude to you, Mr. President, for according due attention to the longstanding and important issue of revitalizing the General Assembly by placing it at the core of the agenda for the Assembly’s work at its sixty-fifth session.
While my delegation associates itself wit…
I wish to put on record here in the Assembly that my delegation, in the spirit of solidarity with the Palestinian people and cause, and with other peoples under occupation, voted in favour of all the resolutions just adopted — resolutions 65/13, 65/14, 65/15 and 65/16 — under agenda item 37, “The qu…
We are here today for a joint debate on two interrelated agenda items in order to follow up on the progress of our work on the enhanced promotion of a culture of peace and the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations through interreligious, intercultural and intercivilizational dialogue and co…
I apologize for taking the floor again. This time, I wish to make some remarks relating to the representative of Sweden and the human rights situation in Iran and to the statement made by the representative of Ireland yesterday (see A/65/PV.20). I wish to say that, in referring to human rights issue…
This afternoon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates raised unacceptable claims about the three Iranian islands located in the Persian Gulf, namely, Abu Musa, Tonb-e Bozorg and Tonb-e Kuchak. The Islamic Republic of Iran categorically rejects those remarks as unacceptable cla…
I have two points to clarify in exercise of the right of reply.
First, this morning the Prime Minister of the friendly State of Kuwait referred in his remarks to those Iranian islands located in the Persian Gulf. My delegation would like to make clear that there is no conflict whatsoever over those…
This evening, the delegation of Belgium made baseless allegations against the peaceful Iranian nuclear programme by considering it as a threat to the international non-proliferation regime. In this regard and in exercise of right of reply, I should like to state the following.
First, these allegati…
My delegation wishes to congratulate Her Excellency Joan E. Donoghue on her election as a judge of the International Court of Justice.
Nonetheless, my delegation would like to underline that articles 2 and 9 of the Court’s Statute provide the only criteria for electing qualified candidates to the p…
I wish to place on record here in the General Assembly that my delegation has voted in favour of all the resolutions adopted today under the agenda item entitled “Question of Palestine”, namely, resolutions 64/16,
64/17, 64/18 and 64/19. We have also voted in favour of resolutions 64/20 and 64/21, …
The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran joined the consensus today on resolution 64/291, entitled “Follow-up to paragraph 143 on human security of the 2005 World Summit Outcome”, with a view to continuing consideration of the notion of human security within the framework of the General Assemb…
I would like to place on record our position on two issues that were raised in the plenary meetings of the General Assembly held this morning and afternoon. I do so to clarify and reject the allegations and misunderstandings
about Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities and about the treatment of indivi…
My delegation joined the consensus of resolution 64/299 in the hope that the summit outcome will send a message of hope to all those suffering from poverty, hunger, external shocks and foreign intervention. We sincerely view the summit as the last opportunity to accelerate progress towards the achie…
This morning, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates raised some unacceptable, futile and unfounded claims about the three Iranian islands located in the Persian Gulf, namely, Abu Musa and the two Tunbs. The Islamic Republic of Iran categorically rejects those claims and wishes…
I take the floor today to express our deep appreciation for the great privilege of having you, Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, with us as the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session.
We are thankful to you for your resolve to relieve people from poverty, hunger and disease, and …
My delegation voted in favour of resolutions 62/108 and 62/109 under item 33, “Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories”, in order to reiterate our solidarity and sympathy with th…
My delegation, along with the overwhelming majority of Member States, voted in favour of the resolutions just adopted on the question of Palestine, in order to reaffirm its solidarity and sympathy with the Palestinian people.
Our positions with regard to the question of Palestine are well known, an…
I have heard again a number of absurd distortions and baseless allegations against my country by the representative of the Zionist regime, a regime which has based its policies, practices and behaviour on occupation, State terrorism, violence and bloodshed. I would like to place on record that my de…
I apologize for taking the floor again. It is so unfortunate that our very good neighbour country tried to change the nature of a bilateral problem, in two senses: technicality and locality. It is a change in terms of technicality because it is a change from our technical understanding of existing b…
