It is a great pleasure to see you, Madam President, presiding over today’s meeting of the Security Council. It is also a great honour to have been invited to participate. I thank you for convening this open debate on security and development. I especially thank you for the
presidential statement (S…
Ours is a harsh and difficult world — a complex, sometimes disgraceful world where 6 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, many from problems related to malnutrition; where violence has taken on a new dimension of terror and horror, with hundreds of thousands of deaths in Libya…
On behalf of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, I would like to congratulate my friend Ambassador Vuk Jeremić on his election to preside over the work of the General Assembly during its sixty-seventh session. His experience, competence and reliability will be crucial in ensuring that the most represen…
My delegation is speaking on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti, composed of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Peru, the United States and Uruguay.
We wish to congratulate the President of Colombia, His Excellency President Juan Manuel Santos, for taking the important and opp…
Our goals at the national level are goals we also want to see achieved in the international community. They are goals that the international community must tackle as priorities. They include eradicating indigence and reducing and eliminating poverty and its root causes, as well as ensuring a dignifi…
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude for the convening of this High-level Plenary Meeting on a review of the progress made and pending challenges in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The set of public policies and measures carried out by our national Government have …
