73/300 GA
International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice
73
Session
| Draft symbol | A/73/L.92 |
|---|---|
| Adopted symbol | 73/300 |
| UN Document | 73/300 ↗ |
Vote Consensus — A/73/PV.91
Speeches following this vote (7)
The Acting President
I now call on those delegations that wish to make statements of position on the resolution just adopted.
Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga
We welcome the Assembly’s adoption today of resolution 73/300, establishing 21 June as the International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice. My country had the honour of promoting and facilitating the negotiations on the text. With the adoption of the resolution, we mark a new international milestone in the recognition of the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, and specifi…
Mr. Skoknic Tapia
My delegation would like to express its appreciation for the support of the membership for resolution 73/300, on the International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice, which we have just adopted. This celebration, in its various forms and manifestations, is a tradition of the Andean countries, including my own. The General Assembly’s adoption of this resolution strengthens the United Nations D…
Mr. Ugarelli
Peru welcomes the adoption of resolution 73/300, which recognizes 21 June as the International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice in its different manifestations. For many of our indigenous peoples, this date is of particular relevance since it marks the beginning of the Andean New Year, whose celebrations were declared by Peru’s Ministry of Culture in 2013 to be of national cultural interest…
Mr. Castañeda Solares
I would like to begin by thanking the delegations of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru for submitting resolution 73/300, which officially recognizes 21 June as the International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice, which we believe will contribute to greater recognition of the cultural diversity and richness of our peoples.
Guatemala, as the heart of the Mayan world,…
Mr. Lawrence
The United States joined the consensus on resolution 73/300 today on the express understanding that the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are not legally binding on Member States, and to the extent that it is implied in this decision and in these declarations, the United States does not recognize the creation of any …
The Acting President
We have heard the last speaker on this item.
The General Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of agenda item 15.
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