At the outset, let me commend the leadership of Pakistan in guiding the work of the Council in January 2013. I applaud the hard work of your delegation, Sir, in preparing the informative concept note before us (S/2013/4). We also thank the Secretary-General for his statement delivered this morning.
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On behalf of its sponsors, I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/67/L.46, entitled “Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace”. Every year since 2001, we have been presenting a draft resolution on the subject of a culture of peace. That draft resolution h…
I have the honour, on behalf of approximately 20 sponsors, to introduce, under agenda item 29, entitled “People’s empowerment and a peace-centric development model”, draft resolution A/67/L.47, entitled “People’s empowerment and development”.
A year ago, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Her Excell…
The Bangladesh Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism, Ms. Saima Wazed Hossain, was supposed to be here this morning. Unfortunately, she is not yet here, and therefore, with due permission, I have the privilege to take the floor.
I would like to begin by sharing the following name…
It is an honour for me to address the plenary meeting on the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). We express our appreciation to Ambassador Tommy Koh, who was the President of the Third United Na…
I thank Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri, Permanent Representative of India, and his country’s presidency for organizing this open debate. I also thank the Deputy Secretary General, the Executive Director of UN-Women and the Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations for their insightful presentatio…
Yesterday was a historic day. On that day, the United Nations granted Palestine the status of non-member observer State in this body. The day will be remembered as a milestone on the road to achieving full statehood for the Palestine people and peace in the Middle East. We are proud to have co-spons…
At the outset, I thank Mr. John Baird, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Canada, for his statement. Let me also thank the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Mr. Guillermo Rishchynski, for his role as the Facilitator of the current review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terr…
Through you, Sir, I wish to thank Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana of Rwanda for his leadership and outstanding work in steering the work of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2011. His introduction of the report of the Commission on its fifth session (A/66/675) bears witness to the efforts that …
The delegation of Bangladesh voted in favour of resolution 66/253, entitled “Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic”. Bangladesh maintains a principled position of generally abstaining on human rights resolutions calling for action against any State Member of the United Nations. However, we voted in …
On behalf of the sponsors, It is my privilege to introduce draft
resolution A/66/L.23, entitled “Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace”, dated 5 December, at this year’s session. Since the submission of the draft resolution, apart from my own country, the follow…
As one of the regular sponsors of the Third Committee draft resolution on cooperatives, it is a pleasure for my delegation to speak at today’s plenary meeting devoted to the launch of the International Year of Cooperatives 2012. The history of cooperatives in our part of the world dates back to the …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement in the joint debate on the annual report (A/65/701) of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Secretary- General’s report on the Peacebuilding Fund (A/65/353).
The Movement wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this i…
I have the pleasure to speak today on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on the review of the Peacebuilding Commission.
At the outset, the Movement would like to express its sincerest appreciation to the co-facilitators of the review process, the Permanent Representatives of South Africa, Ire…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
Let me begin by thanking the presidency of Uganda for organizing this debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for his progress report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2010/386) and his report on wom…
At the outset, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for entrusting me with the assignment of facilitator of the review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. I highly value the Assembly’s trust in and continued support for me and for the Bangladesh Mission.
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Let me begin by thanking the President of the General Assembly for scheduling these very important and timely plenary meetings. These two days of discussion, which began yesterday, 19 August, on World Humanitarian Day, are the right occasion to pledge ourselves to the cause of humanity and the suffe…
I thank you, Mr. President, and the other members of the Security Council for organizing this meeting. I also especially thank Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy and the force commanders who are participating in this meeting.
As we have mentioned elsewhere, United Nations peacekeeping operations …
The Asian Group was deeply saddened to learn that President of the Republic of Nigeria His Excellency Umaru Yar’Adua, who suffered from long-term health conditions, died Wednesday at the age of 58.
Mr. Yar’Adua began his political career in 1991. He lost his first election, but he did not give up. …
We commend the Secretary-General and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) for jointly preparing a comprehensive report, entitled “Global health and foreign policy: strategic opportunities and challenges”, contained in document A/64/365.
The report before us rightly identifies…
