At the outset, I warmly welcome His Excellency Mr. Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, who is attending this important meeting today.
The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, proceeding from the principled position of the Movement of Non-Align…
On behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Sir, I would first like to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-
fourth session. I express the hope that, under your able guidance, Mr. President, this session will be crowned …
At the outset, I should like to express my sincere gratitude to you, Madam President, for your leadership and active engagement in the process of the intergovernmental negotiations. I wish also to express my deep appreciation to the co-Chairs, Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh and Ambassador Christian …
The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea expresses its hope that our conversation under the agenda item “Prevention of armed conflict” will be an important opportunity to contribute to safeguarding the purposes and principles
of the Charter of the United Nations and international…
At the outset, my delegation would like to express its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this important open debate of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. My delegation has full confidence that the current debate will be a mea…
At present, Security Council reform is one of the core elements of the reform of the United Nations with the aim of enabling the Council to better carry out its mission to ensure peace and security in the world. The Security Council is one of the major organs of the United Nations. It has a fundamen…
The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is taking the floor to clarify its position with regard to the nuclear tests described unfairly in the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (see A/73/315).
Based on our willingness to end this history of confrontation and achie…
The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea extends its full support to draft resolution A/73/L.3, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”, based on the principled stand of the Movement of Non-…
My delegation takes the floor to clarify its position in total rejection of resolution 68/183, entitled “Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” and to disassociate itself from its adoption.
There are no human rights violations in my country as mentioned in the reso…
My delegation firmly believes that all human rights issues should be addressed through the Universal Periodic Review mechanism, rather than in plenary meeting, especially given that country-specific draft resolutions clearly run counter to the principles of impartiality and non-selectivity with resp…
My delegation would like to clarify its principled position, reject resolution 67/181 and dissociate itself from the consensus of the Assembly. All human rights issues must be considered in the Human Rights Council’s Univeral Periodic Review mechanism, rather than in plenary meeting of the General A…
My delegation reaffirms its principled position of categorically rejecting draft resolution II, entitled “Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, as a document representing a political plot and fabrications of all kinds. The draft resolution has nothing to do with th…
My delegation would like, at the outset, to express its deep concern at this abnormal convening of a meeting of the General Assembly. I would like also to clarify our position on the agenda item “Report of the Human Rights Council”.
With reference to the agenda item on the report of the Human Right…
My delegation has asked for the floor to exercise the right of reply to respond to the remarks just made by the Japanese representative.
As we have mentioned previously, regarding past Japanese crimes, my delegation once again strongly urges the Japanese delegation to acknowledge its legal responsi…
