We welcome the presence today of Ambassador Joaquín Maza Martelli, President of the Human Rights Council — a proud Salvadoran and a personal mentor of mine — and thank him for his briefing. We commend him on his hard work this year at the helm of such an important intergovernmental forum. We welcome…
We would like to begin our statement by thanking the President of the International Criminal Court, Her Excellency Ms. Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, for the presentation of her report (see A/72/349), in which she details the administrative and judicial activities carried out by the Court for the per…
With regard to the General Assembly’s adoption today of resolution 69/283, an outcome document of the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, El Salvador, as a country highly vulnerable to the effects of natural incidents originating in climate change…
El Salvador would first like to thank the President for his initiative in convening this meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (resolution S-26/2) and the Political Declarations on HIV and AIDS (resolutions 60/262, annex, and 65/277, annex).
Our country recogniz…
I should like to address agenda item 15, “Culture of peace”, which has always been of great importance to the people and Government of El Salvador in both its domestic and its international dimensions. We believe that this issue of great importance as a theme that encompasses all three pillars of th…
El Salvador welcomes the adoption of resolution 66/255, entitled “Civilian capacity in the aftermath of conflict”. We take this opportunity to thank the Permanent Missions of Canada and Indonesia for their efforts and flexibility during the consultations that led to the consensus adoption of the res…
El Salvador regrets that there was no consensus
on resolution 66/254 on the intergovernmental process of the General Assembly on strengthening and enhancing the functioning of the human rights treaty body system, for which we voted in favour. We have closely followed this process from the beginning…
