At the outset, I would like to thank the President and the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the presentation of their comprehensive periodic report and for their briefings today. I also take this opportunity to congratulate Judge Graciela Gatti Santana on…
My delegation takes the floor in exercise of the right of reply in response to the statement made by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, His Excellency Mr. Edi Rama, during the general debate last Saturday (see A/77/PV.12).
While fully agreeing, supporting and being in accord with the fo…
First of all, I wish to express our condolences and sympathies to the families and nations of the victims of the latest terrorist attacks. I also wish to thank the two co-facilitators and their teams for their outstanding work and tremendous efforts in negotiating resolution 70/291.
The Republic of…
Serbia aligns itself with the statement delivered by the observer of the European
Union (see A/70/PV.84). I would like, however, to make a number of remarks from my national perspective.
Over a number of years, terrorism has posed one of the greatest challenges to the present-day world. It has bec…
I will take further time at this late hour only to set the facts straight. Kosovo is neither an independent State nor a Member of the United Nations. The Prime Minister of Albania is the only speaker in the General Assembly who has called for the recognition of part of a sovereign country. That is a…
At the outset, I would like to join other speakers in thanking the Permanent Representative of Turkey for his efforts in facilitating the consultations on the draft resolution (A/68/L.50) that we will adopt at the conclusion of this debate. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehe…
Serbia welcomes the opening of the debate on the concept of the responsibility to protect, based on the comprehensive and astute report of the Secretary-General (A/63/677). The concept, as agreed at the 2005 World Summit and adopted in its Outcome Document (resolution 60/1), is in no way questionabl…
