67/1 GA
Declaration of the High- level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels
67
Session
| Draft symbol | A/67/L.1 |
|---|---|
| Adopted symbol | 67/1 |
| UN Document | 67/1 ↗ |
Vote Consensus — A/67/PV.3
Speeches following this vote (20)
The President
I wish to express my special appreciation once again to Ambassador Carsten Staur of Denmark and to Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, who so ably and patiently conducted the discussions and complex negotiations in the informal consultations on the resolution. Of course, I also thank all Member States for their valuable contribution to the successful completion of the outcome document.
I …
Mr. Tomka
I welcome the opportunity to address the General Assembly on behalf of the International Court of Justice on this important topic, the rule of law at the national and international levels. I wish to make a few remarks on the international aspect of this concept.
The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations confirms that the founding fathers of the Organization, when they decided to create t…
The President
I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Guido Westerwelle, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany and current President of the Security Council.
Mr. Westerwelle
It is an honour to address the General Assembly on behalf of the Security Council at its first-ever plenary meeting devoted exclusively to the rule of law. Today’s meeting and the representation of States at the highest level attests to the international community’s firm commitment to the rule of law. Let me therefore pay tribute to the General Assembly, which has set the normative framework on w…
The President
I now give the floor to Ms. Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ms. Pillay
The rule of law constitutes the backbone for the legal protection of human rights. In addition, the rule of law itself must be grounded in human rights. Growing up in South Africa, I experienced how the apartheid regime created a veneer of a rule of law based on legislation that institutionalized injustice and procedures that embodied unfairness. My experience has shown me that rule of law withou…
The President
I now give the floor to Ms. Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
Ms. Clark
The rule of law underpins achieving the mission of the United Nations: to advance peace, human rights and development. In our rapidly changing, unequal and, at times, dangerous world, implementing the rule of law is critical to establishing the justice, stability and inclusive growth required for sustained human development and poverty eradication. It is
therefore highly appropriate that the Gen…
The President
I now give the floor to Mr. Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Mr. Fedotov
I am grateful for this opportunity to add my voice to those of the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General, as well as my colleagues Helen Clark and Navi Pillay, in support of the rule of law as a central building block at the national and international levels. The declaration just adopted (resolution 67/1) provides a solid road map in that direction.
In a globalized world, i…
The President
We will now continue the Highlevel Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels.
Before we begin with the list of speakers, I would like to turn to some organizational matters pertaining to the conduct of the meeting.
The list of speakers was established on the understanding that statements will have a time limit of up to five minutes per statement…
The President
The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Demetris Christofias, President of the Republic of Cyprus.
President Christofias: Today’s meeting is being held against the backdrop of the recent worrying developments in the world and massive abuses of human rights.
The rule of law is a fundamental principle upon which the European Union (EU) is based. As the country currently holdin…
The President
The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia.
President Ilves: At the 2005 World Summit here at the United Nations, States agreed on the need for universal adherence to, and the implementation of, the rule of law, at both the international and the national levels. We must commit to common values and deepen discussion and a…
The President
The Assembly will how hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, President of the Republic of Honduras.
President Lobo Sosa (spoke in Spanish): The peoples of the United Nations recognized, from the very founding of the Organization, that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and that, endowed as they are with reason and awareness, they should therefore b…
The President
The Assembly will how hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria.
President Fischer: I am very happy that the General Assembly has chosen this important issue as the subject of this High-level Meeting.
International law and the rule of law are the foundations of the international system. Austria strongly believes that a rules-based internat…
The President
The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
President Ahmadinejad (spoke in Farsi; interpretation provided by the delegation): The theme of this meeting is vitally important and the main foundation of all other issues. Regulating sound social relations, establishing order, justice, freedom, peace and sustainable secu…
The President
The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Andreas Bērziņš, President of the Republic of Latvia.
President Bērziņš: Latvia is strongly committed to strengthening the rule of law, democracy, human rights and good governance around the world. That
commitment is based on our own experience. More than 70 years ago, Latvia and the other two Baltic States were eliminated from the wor…
The President
The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Sauli Niinistö, the President of the Republic of Finland.
President Niinistö: I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Nordic countries, namely, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and my own country, Finland.
We express our sincere thanks to the Secretary- General for his welcome vision on how the rule of law should be developed at th…
The President
The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Rosen Plevneliev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
President Plevnieliev: Bulgaria subscribes to the statement that will be made later by President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso on behalf of the European Union, as well as to the joint pledges undertaken by European Union (EU) member States on the occasion of this …
The President
The General Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Waheed, President of the Republic of Maldives.
President Waheed: It is a pleasure and an honour to stand before the General Assembly today, representing my nation in advocacy of a principle that we hold dear.
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to preside over the General Assembly at its si…
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