At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the Chairs of the Council’s three counter-terrorism-related Committees for their respective briefings this morning.
Last year, during the 10-year anniversary of the events of 11 September 2001, a special meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Comm…
I would like to begin by extending a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, and to thank him for his very encouraging statement. I would also like to express my appreciation to Ms. Ameerah Haq for her comprehensive briefing to the Council in her capacity as Sp…
I would first like to thank the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, His Excellency Mr. Jawed Ludin, for his participation today in the Council debate on Afghanistan and particularly for his statement. I would also like to thank Mr. Ladsous, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeepin…
Let me first join other representatives in thanking the facilitators of the two draft resolutions (A/66/L.21 and A/66/L.22), Ambassador Henrique Rodrigues Valle, of Brazil, and Ms. Koehler, of the United States, for their tremendous work. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Ms. Holly …
It gives me great pleasure to address the General Assembly on the occasion of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers. We have received significant input from two United Nations Volunteers at this commemorative meeting. The first State of the World’s Volunt…
At the outset, allow me to express Japan’s gratitude to the co-Chairs of the previous Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly, His Excellency Mr. Dalius Čekuolis, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania, and His Excellency Mr. Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Rep…
At the outset, allow me to express my deep gratitude to you, Mr. President, for your initiative, which includes convening today’s open debate on the working methods of the Security Council — an issue on which Japan places great importance — and holding a separate and in-depth discussion in the Gener…
I thank the President for convening this important meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East in the General Assembly.
As we all know, this year marks an unforgettable milestone for the Middle East and the North Africa region, with the occurrence of a series of movements towards democratiz…
I would like to express my gratitude for this opportunity to address the General Assembly on the situation in Afghanistan. We are pleased to sponsor the draft resolution before us (A/66/L.10). Given the challenging situation that Afghanistan faces today, it is of particular importance to demonstrate…
At the outset, I would like to pay tribute to the Chairs of the Council’s three counter-terrorism-related Committees for their informative and comprehensive briefings on developments during the last six months.
We commend the successful holding of the Secretary-General’s symposium on international …
I will be very brief. Whatever allegations the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea made in his second exercise of the right of reply, my delegation would like very much to remind the international community that it was the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that continued …
I would like to exercise the right of reply to the allegations against Japan made by the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at this meeting. Let me set the record straight on the following three points.
First of all, the Japanese Government’s adherence to the three non-nucl…
Let me begin by thanking the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Yukiya Amano, for presenting the annual report (see A/66/95) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March w…
I would like first of all to thank Mr. Al-Nasser, President of the General Assembly, for his initiative in convening this meeting on the launch of the International Year of Cooperatives. I would also like to thank both Dame Pauline Green
and Mr. Gordon Brown for their respective inspiring statement…
At the outset, I would like to commend the United Kingdom for promoting this year’s draft resolution (A/66/L.3) on the Olympic Truce. Such resolutions have become a valued tradition of the General Assembly. As a sponsor, Japan strongly supports the spirit of the draft resolution, as expressed in its…
I thank the President of the Human Rights Council. Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Permanent Representative of Uruguay in Geneva, for the presentation of her reports (A/66/53 and A/66/53/Add.1) today, both to the Third Committee and the General Assembly, and for her dedicated work in the Council.
The int…
I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Joseph Deiss, for his initiative in convening this meeting.
At the outset, I would like to express Japan’s deepest condolences and sympathy to the Government and people of Norway, as well as to the families of the victims of Friday’s …
Thank you very much, Mr. President, for giving us the opportunity to address the situation in the Middle East in the General Assembly.
The United Nations has been addressing the situation in the Middle East since the Organization was founded. It is not easy, but we believe achieving peace between I…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the Chairs of the Council’s three counter-terrorism-related Committees for their respective briefings on developments during the past six months.
The recently uncovered cargo plane bomb plot and last year’s attempted bombing of a United Stat…
Since we have explained our position on the issues that the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has just raised here and also in the Third Committee, we will not repeat it now.
However, we cannot accept the baseless statement that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has ma…
