It is for me a great pleasure to congratulate, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, Mr. Malloch Brown on his appointment for a second term as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
I would like to express the full satisfaction of the G-77 and China at his confirmation …
Mr. President, I have already had an opportunity to tell you how grateful my country is to see you presiding over the Council, and I am following your instructions.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, when London was subjected to carpet bombing, it was a time for cries and tears but not for statements…
The Kingdom of Morocco is genuinely pleased to take part in this debate and to make a modest contribution to the Assembly’s collective reflection on reforming the United Nations. We wish to warmly thank the Secretary-General for having introduced to us this morning a very useful and stimulating repo…
First of all, I should like to congratulate the Secretary- General, Mr. Kofi Annan, on his report (A/57/172), which describes specific follow-up measures undertaken with regard to the implementation of the
recommendations contained in his very important report of 1998 (A/52/871) on the causes of co…
Before addressing the subject under consideration, I wish to express Morocco’s condolences to Indonesia and to all the families of the victims of the serious terrorist attack that occurred in Bali a few days ago. The Kingdom of Morocco condemns and combats terrorism in all its forms, whatever its or…
First of all, in view of the reports that the Secretary- General has submitted to us on the activity of the Organization and on the follow-up to the Millennium Summit, I should like to congratulate the Secretary- General on those two very high-quality documents. The necessary exercise in which we ar…
At the outset, the delegation of Morocco would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having initiated this process of discussion on information and communication technologies (ICT). You planned it in the initial programme of your presidency, and I must say that the debate yesterday and today has bee…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on Syria’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are fully confident that you will discharge your functions successfully.
I also take this opportunity to pay a tribute to Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani for his efficien…
As I said to you last time, Mr. President, as recently as 9 April, Morocco is pleased to see you in the chair, and we wish you much patience and courage in an extremely tense international situation, in which your knowledge of the United Nations system will be highly appreciated by all of us to adva…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting of the Security Council. We hail the ideas put forth by the Secretary-General in his statement to the Council.
The Security Council is meeting today in exceptional circumstances, imposed by the delicate and critical situat…
Mr. President, allow me at the outset to extend to you and to the other members of the Council our thanks for your immediate response to the request made by the Arab Group to convene an urgent meeting of the Security Council to discuss the tragic situation prevailing in the occupied Palestinian terr…
Despite the lateness of the hour, Sir, I cannot deprive myself of the pleasure of telling you how pleased the Moroccan delegation is to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council for the month of December. This is surely the crowning event of a two- year membership of the Council in the…
I wish at the outset, on behalf of the Moroccan delegation, to congratulate the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, on his most useful report (A/56/371) on follow-up measures to implement the recommendations contained in his report (A/52/871) on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable pea…
I should like, first, on behalf of the Moroccan delegation, to express our gratitude and congratulations to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, on his very detailed report, the road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. We finally have a document that we rea…
We wanted to contribute to the collective reflection on development in Africa by taking part in this discussion on the final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (UN-NADAF). Like other speakers, I would like to stress …
First, the Kingdom of Morocco reiterates its unambiguous and firm position in condemning without reservation terrorism in all its forms and regardless of its origin or perpetrators.
It is true that the United Nations has been debating the issue of terrorism for thirty years. This question has been …
At the outset, Sir, the Moroccan delegation expresses its pleasure at seeing you presiding over the work of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session, whose opening was unfortunately tarnished by the unconscionable terrorist acts that destroyed thousands of families, especially in our host cit…
Before participating in this important debate on economic cooperation, the Moroccan delegation would like to state that in the tragic circumstances, which affect the host city of New York and the United States of America, we Moroccans, as does the entire international community, wholeheartedly expre…
The report of the Secretary-General on the prevention of armed conflict dated 7 June 2001 (A/55/985) is of crucial importance to the credibility and future of our Organization.
Indeed, in his report, Mr. Kofi Annan reminds us that, at the beginning of this new millennium, the essential objective an…
For three decades now our Organization has been dealing with the Palestine problem and we still await a just and lasting solution. The heroic Palestinian people are perseveringly waging a hard struggle. They have shown great patience as they wait for the international community to restore justice. E…
