I would like to commend the remarkable work accomplished by the Human Rights Council during the past year and to express my delegation’s appreciation to the Council’s President, Her Excellency Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Uruguay’s Permanent Representative in Geneva, for the quality of her repor…
It is my great honour and privilege, on behalf of the Group of African States, to address our warmest congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon on his well- deserved appointment to a second term as Secretary- General of the United Nations. Indeed, his appointment by acclamation moments ago b…
Senegal endorses the statement made by the representative of Bangladesh on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, and welcomes the holding of this joint plenary debate on agenda items 30 and 109, concerning, respectively, the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (A/65/701) and the report of the Secre…
I should like at the outset to warmly thank the organizers of this meeting, Bolivia most of all, and to express our deep satisfaction at this welcome initiative.
In its resolution 64/292, the General Assembly stated that access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right that i…
It is an honour for me to introduce draft resolution A/65/L.85, entitled “Multilingualism”, which is the result of intense meetings of negotiations, throughout which a constructive spirit truly prevailed. Allow me to express my great appreciation to all delegations for the interest that they took, i…
I have great pleasure in joining my voice to those of previous speakers to discharge the pleasant duty of conveying my sincere congratulations to our colleague and friend Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, for the quality of his report (A/66/3). The document …
I have the great honour, on behalf of the African States, to convey my sincere congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session.
The Assembly’s choice of Mr. Al-Nasser was a particularly judicious o…
