Midway to the target year of 2015 set for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), my delegation believes that the thematic debate that we are having today could not be more timely and helpful in reinvigorating our efforts to achieve those noble Goals. On behalf of my delegation, …
Since the adoption of the Bonn Agreement, in December 2001, and despite many continuing challenges, Afghanistan has achieved important political progress, culminating in the first-ever direct presidential election, in October 2004, and the parliamentary elections of 2005. The international community…
Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to introduce the draft resolution entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula”. Issued as a document of the General Assembly under the symbol A/62/L.4, the draft resolution was jointly prepared and submitted by the Demo…
Allow me to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his first annual report, which provides a comprehensive overview of the Organization’s achievements and its challenges and which points the way forward on the broad array of global issues that constitute the work of the United Nations.
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