At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Sir, and Italy on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of November. I have the honour to address this meeting of the Security Council on behalf of the people of Eritrea who have, for
over half a century, been at the forefront of the struggl…
It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly on behalf of the Government and the people of Eritrea, who, for the past half a century, have been resolutely fighting for human dignity and regional stability. We have been at
the forefront of the struggle to combat and eradicate human tr…
It is another year and another session of the General Assembly. We meet in the same Assembly Hall and deliver our addresses from the same rostrum, yet no modicum of protocol can mask the gaping divide in our ranks. We live in an increasingly fragile, unjust and unequal world. A small minority holds …
This year, the people of Eritrea have been celebrating the silver jubilee of their country’s independence in 1991. During the difficult years of the war for independence, very few people believed that Eritreans and their leadership were capable of that historic achievement, as the odds were overwhel…
It is my pleasure, at the outset, to warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. I also wish to extend my deep appreciation to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Sam Kutesa, for his commendable efforts in conducting the business of…
My Government welcomes the outcome document, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (resolution 70/1), and is pleased to join the community of nations in adopting it. Its goals and targets fit well with Eritrea’s self-reliance policy and development agenda. It…
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to warmly congratulate you, my brother, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, with its theme of “Delivering on and implementing a transformative post- 2015 development agenda”, which is both timely and appr…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate the President for organizing this High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report. Many of the global issues that we try to address at the United Nations have their own complexities …
Let me first join previous speakers in expressing my delegation’s deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the victims and to the people and the Government of Kenya on the terrorist attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi.
It is almost two generations now since Eritrea first begun to lodge …
It is with a sense of pride and honour that I address this important and timely high- level meeting on human trafficking on behalf of a people who, for more than two generations, have been on the front line of the struggle for dignity and human rights, for themselves and other peoples. On a personal…
Let me start by extending my sincere congratulations to the President of the General Assembly and his country, Serbia, upon his election to
preside over the sixty-seventh session. I am confident that, with his extensive experience and diplomatic skill, he will lead this session of the General Assem…
Let me start by extending my sincere congratulations to you, Mr. President, and your country, Switzerland, for your election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. I am confident that with your extensive experience and diplomatic skill, you will lead this session to a succe…
Five years before the target date of 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are begging to be achieved, and I stand here today to challenge the Assembly to achieve these Goals that should and can be achieved with renewed commitment and by refocusing our action over the next five years. That m…
Let me begin by congratulating our sisterly country the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and you personally, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. I express our confidence that your long-standing diplomatic skills and leadership will lead us t…
I wish to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. He has the full support of my delegation, and I wish him every success as he guides the important deliberations of the session at this…
Allow me to extend my congratulations to Mr. Srgjan Kerim on his election to
the high office of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. I would also like to recognize Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa of Bahrain for her distinguished service as President of the Assembly at its s…
