I would like to preface my remarks by extending a very warm and cordial welcome to the Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, His Excellency Mr. Óscar Adolfo Naranjo. I would like to convey to him and to President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón my country’s appreciation for the tireless efforts th…
Allow me to start by expressing my gratitude to Mr. Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) (S/2017/1113). The report sheds a great deal of light …
Allow me, first of all, to express the gratitude of the delegation of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and his team for their comprehensive and detailed briefing this morning on the situation and recent developments in the D…
First of all, I would like to congratulate all the members of the Security Council at the start of the new year 2018, with the hope that it will bring us good health, prosperity and success in our endeavours. In particular, we congratulate Kazakhstan, through Ambassador Umarov, on assuming the presi…
I align myself with the statement delivered by the Ambassador of Cabo Verde in his capacity as Chair of the Group of African States.
The commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade organized by the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victi…
Allow me at the outset, on behalf of our Head of State and Government, His Excellency Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to express my delegation’s most sincere congratulations on Sweden’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, a task that it is carrying in a manner that reflects its skill and gr…
This is the first time that I have taken the floor from this rostrum since the election of the President
of the General Assembly for the seventy-first session. Allow me to express my sincere congratulations and appreciation to the President on the effective manner in which he has been conducting th…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea associates itself with the statements made by Ambassador Mamabolo of South Africa on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and by the representative of South Sudan on behalf of the Group of African States (see A/70/PV.73).
For me, it is a great honour to speak at thi…
I should like to align myself with the statement made by the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone and would also like, on behalf of my delegation and my country, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, to pay due and merited tribute to the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Sam Kut…
I am pleased to take the floor following the adoption of this important resolution (resolution 69/314), not only to speak in explanation of position but also to say how pleased my Government and I personally are with the General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution on tackling illicit trafficking in …
When one takes the floor following so many other speakers, one cannot but be brief and join in the positive statements that have been made. We have a saying in Spanish to the effect that it is never too late to say something good, although this comes after the loss of so many lives.
These words fol…
From the approval in 1990 of the Paris Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s through to the adoption in 2001 of the Brussels Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, the objectives established at those conferences to improve the so…
As this is the first time that I have the honour to speak before the plenary of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly and on a matter of such vital importance to us all as the current agenda item, the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security C…
I have the pleasure to deliver this statement on behalf of the African Group in explanation of position on the resolution just adopted (resolution 67/294).
The resolution represents an important step towards the full implementation of the commitments made by the United Nations to Africa with respec…
I would like, first of all, to align my delegation with the statement made by Ambassador Tommo Monthe, Permanent Representative of Cameroon, in his capacity as Chair of the African Group (see A/67/PV.25).
We are pleased that the Organization has convened this meeting on the Decade to Roll Back Mala…
At the outset, allow me to sincerely
congratulate President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser and commend him on his very efficient leadership of the debates of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I also thank him for having convened this plenary meeting in order to debate the question of equ…
As this is the first time I have taken the floor since your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session, Sir, allow me, on behalf of my Government, to offer you my sincerest congratulations and our full support throughout your presidency.
As several other speakers have …
At the outset, the delegation of Equatorial Guinea congratulates Bolivia on its initiative. We welcome the adoption of resolution 64/292 and the fact that there was no vote against the resolution.
Let us picture a remote place where people have nothing and live without resources. If we go there and…
Upon taking the floor on behalf of the African Group to mark the 15 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, allow me to reiterate the condolences and solidarity of the African Group to the Government and people of Haiti and Chile for the tragedies caused by the d…
On behalf of the 53 countries that make up the African Group, I have the honour and pleasure to address the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. The African Group associates itself with the statement by the representative of Yemen on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Allow me at the…
