Co-operative Republic of Guyana

The General Assembly, this most democratic and representative of United Nations organs, has served for almost six decades now as a forum in which all States, no...

It is a great pleasure for me to address the General Assembly under the presidency of a fellow citizen of our Caribbean Community. Allow me to extend our warme...

Over the Assembly hangs a cloud of uncertainty — indeed, of unease — about the future of multilateralism and of international relations generally. The tragedy ...

Although the embers from the towering infernos which resulted from the attacks on 11 September have not fully died, it may nevertheless be possible to analyse ...

Still fresh in our minds is the strong plea made by the leaders of the world at their historic meeting on the eve of this fifty-fifth Assembly for a universal r...

I am pleased to have this opportunity, the first since my assumption of the presidency of Guyana, to share with the Assembly some issues of interest and concern...

In just 15 months, our world will enter a new millennium, leaving behind it a chequered past to face the challenges of a yet uncharted future. It is not too ear...

For some time now the United Nations has been engaged in a process of reform and restructuring with the aim of improving its capacity to address the many chall...

As the United Nations faces the beginning of its second half-century and the dawn of a new millennium, we look to the Organization for the continuing fulfilmen...

In another two weeks we will be commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this Organization. We shall do so with much ceremony. I would hope, however, that we w...

Permit me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. I am confident that unde...

As I stand today at this rostrum, a flood of memories rushes to my mind. I recall appearing as Premier before the United Nations Committee on decolonization in ...

The political physiognomy of the world has been profoundly altered within recent tines. The cold-war era, which generated awesome contending forces and so poig...

There is now abroad in the world a mood of optimism which, however cautious and restrained, now anticipates the installation of a new global order of peace and...

 We are meeting at a time when the dynamic of co-operation has gained ascendancy over that of confrontation. As a result a good mood prevails in the internati...

 The forty-second session of the General Assembly takes place against the background of some encouraging developments in international relations. It is Guyana ...

I speak from this rostrum as the representative of one of the many small countries which constitute the majority of the membership of this Organization. I spea...

My first duty - which is a pleasant one - is to extend felicitations and congratulations to you, Sir, a distinguished son of Spain, upon your unanimous election...

In electing you, Sir, President of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly the international community has honoured a man of remarkable talent and exp...

190. Mr. President, the Assembly convenes at a time when international relations are increasingly characterized by tensions and turmoil, fear of nuclear disast...