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Amara Essy

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1996-09-24
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  1. “In this connection, we should also emphasize the importance of the upcoming World Food Summit, to be held under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome in November 1996. Complementing these initiatives, the Agenda for Peace and the Agenda for Development provide an appropriate framework for thinking about the important interrelationship and interaction between peace and development. Along the same lines, and without being exhaustive in my list, I would like to recall the progress made last year in the areas of peace and disarmament with the signing on 24 September 1996 of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  2. “In order to carry out these tasks, in the last few years Member States have worked out careful strategies through the cycle, ending this year, of thematic conferences that began in New York in 1990 with the World Summit for Children, continued in Rio with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in Vienna with the World Conference on Human Rights, in Cairo with the International Conference on Population and Development, in Copenhagen with the World Summit for Social Development, in Beijing with the Fourth World Conference on Women and in Istanbul with the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II).”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  3. “Last year in San Francisco, 50 years after the founding of the United Nations, the international community reaffirmed at the highest level of leadership the relevance to today’s world of the Charter and its purposes and principles. Through this important act, the international community enshrined its commitment to attaining the objectives set out in the Charter. The Declaration of 24 October 1995 also confirmed the essential tasks of the United Nations for the year 2000: promoting peace, development, equality, justice and understanding among peoples. It also gave a special place to the advancement of women and the protection of children.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  4. “The Department of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have been particularly effective in this area. I think these examples are enough to rehabilitate the United Nations in the minds of some. If we were to believe its detractors, our Organization would be bureaucratic, behind the times, ineffective and yet extravagant. While some of these criticisms were perhaps justified to some extent in the past, today we can say that our Organization is moving resolutely towards reform and a structural and functional transformation that started a decade ago.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  5. “With close links between thinking and operational activities, and with an increasing presence on the ground, the United Nations will be closer to the people, and thus better able to take into account their needs in a number of areas, such as employment, education, health, humanitarian assistance and environment. Specifically on the question of humanitarian assistance, we should highlight the remarkable way in which the United Nations has adapted in dealing with the refugee problems resulting from internal conflicts in various parts of the world. There are millions of displaced persons, and this situation is without precedent since 1945.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  6. “The $150 million in savings are the result of a set of measures aimed at rationalizing and maximizing the cost-effectiveness ratio of the work of the Secretariat, as can be seen in the first report of the United Nations Efficiency Board, which was made public last month. 5 The new spirit of budgetary strictness and administrative efficiency that is becoming prevalent within the Secretariat and among those in charge of the agencies and programmes of the United Nations system seems to have given us a new awareness of the need for self- examination and for concrete responses to the needs of Member States.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  7. “In this regard, we may welcome the evaluation of the Efficiency Board chaired by Under-Secretary-General Joseph Connor, whose work is highly encouraging as to the rational management of the United Nations system. Thus, all the sectors where overlapping and duplication were most obvious have now been singled out with a view to proper management that will generate substantial economies in the budgetary performance of the Secretariat. Here we would like to say how pleased we are that the Secretary-General was able to hold the United Nations budget for 1996-1997 within the strict limits defined by the General Assembly.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  8. “It is in this spirit that, in anticipation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was able to reform its working methods, redeploy its people in the field and develop its activities thanks to a fruitful partnership within and beyond the United Nations system, notably with representatives of civil society. This truly remarkable transformation of UNDP over the past two years has enabled it to regain a central role in operational activities for development on all continents, particularly in Africa, where it is steering the United Nations System- wide Special Initiative for Africa. Reform is an act of the will that plays itself out over time. It must be carried out from the inside and under the impetus of Member States.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  9. “On the basis of that resolution, the Economic and Social Council will carry out its work within a rationalized framework that should enable it to attain the objectives assigned to it under the Charter. Its working methods will also be adapted to the necessity of better time management and greater budgetary savings, operating on the basis of a rational reduction in the many outputs of this body, with a view to assuring greater effectiveness. Thanks to this resolution, we should be able slowly to move away from the heavy and spendthrift bureaucracy associated with our Organization.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  10. “Concomitant with this progress by Member State towards reform, there has been an equally commendable effort by the Secretariat to correct the Organization’s disfunctions, particularly those relating to fragmentation within the United Nations system and the inadequacy of certain coordinating mechanisms, as well as, in some cases, the absence of a rational division of labour, which has led to overlapping and duplication. I would particularly like to mention, among other things, the progress that has been made towards the restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields pursuant to resolution 50/227.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  11. “I would add that after a decade of study and reflection on United Nations reform, it is now imperative to proceed with such reform so that we can focus on what constitutes the raison d’être of our Organization: its essential missions, namely, the maintenance of peace and security, the promotion of economic and social development, the struggle against poverty, humanitarian assistance, the protection of human rights and democracy, the protection of the environment, dialogue among cultures and respect for diversity.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  12. “The open-ended working groups of the General Assembly responsible for examining “An Agenda for Peace”, the Agenda for Development, Security Council reform, the financial situation of the United Nations, and the strengthening of the United Nations system, have sufficiently progressed in their considerations to allow the greatest hopes as to the restructuring of our Organization, its revitalization with an eye to greater effectiveness adapted to contemporary needs and challenges.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  13. “In the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations, adopted on 24 October last, we committed ourselves to assuring that we: “will give to the twenty-first century a United Nations equipped, financed and structured to serve effectively the peoples in whose name it was established.” (resolution 50/6) Encouraged by Ambassador Diogo Freitas do Amaral over the past year, the General Assembly and the Secretariat have advanced on the path of reform for the United Nations and clarification of its objectives and missions.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  14. “Accordingly, the Côte d’Ivoire endorses the Declaration of African Heads of State or Government, who, at the thirty-second Summit of the Organization of African Unity, held at Yaoundé, reaffirmed Africa’s right to a second term and 4 recommended the candidature of Mr. Boutros Boutros- Ghali. Nearly a year ago, on 22 October 1995, a Special Commemorative Meeting of the General Assembly took place, involving 129 Heads of State or Government who had come here solemnly to reconfirm their belief in the ideals of the Charter of the United Nations, namely peace, development, international cooperation, equality and justice, and also to demonstrate their commitment to the reform and modernization of our Organization so that it can take up the challenges of the future.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  15. “Thanks to his abilities and diplomacy, he helped to preserve the founding roles of this institution, namely the maintenance of peace and of economic and social development, and to guide it towards new areas. We are particularly grateful to him for his excellent work at the last session, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of our Organization. The delegation of Côte d’Ivoire would also like to thank the Secretary-General for the active and determined part that he has always played in heading the Secretariat, particularly in the areas of peacekeeping and economic and social development.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)

  16. “My delegation and I are pleased, Sir, to see you presiding over the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. Your great experience of multilateral diplomacy, along with the apt initiatives which your great country, Malaysia, and you yourself have taken in many focal areas of international relations make you the right person to guide us and to ensure the success of this important session. I extend my sincere congratulations to your predecessor, Ambassador Diogo Freitas do Amaral, for the outstanding work he did in heading the General Assembly at a difficult time, marked by a financial crisis unprecedented in the history of our Organization.”

    1996-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 51 (1996)