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Daniel Kablan Duncan

lines on the record: 44
first: 2012-09-24
most recent: 2019-09-24
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-general-debate

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“In conclusion, I applaud our shared determination to work in full synergy to address the many challenges of today and tomorrow, in order to ensure a world of peace and shared prosperity for all peoples.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“That is the meaning of the undertaking made at the Extraordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on Terrorism, held on 14 September in Ouagadougou, where the leaders of ECOWAS, Mauritania and Chad committed to a $1 billion four- year plan of action to contribute to defeating terrorism in both West Africa and the Lake Chad basin. As Cote d’Ivoire prepares for the end of its term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, my country reiterates its commitment to peace, security and development within the other organs of the United Nations, with a view to harnessing the experience gained and the core values that underpin its diplomatic efforts.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The persistence of many conflicts around the world, the resurgence of terrorism and mass crimes, and the ongoing threat posed by weapons of mass destruction unfortunately jeopardize the achievement of our ambitious development programmes. It is well known that there can be no development without security and peace — both are prerequisites for sustainable development. Sadly, many hotbeds of tension persist across Africa, particularly in North and West Africa. A number of terrorist groups continue to cause significant loss of human life, not to mention destruction of infrastructure, thereby contributing to the weakening of peace and stability in several countries. No sustainable solution to the challenges I have mentioned can be envisaged without a global approach taken within a multilateral framework and with the collaboration of all.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Particular emphasis has therefore been placed on the transition to renewable energies, the development of a circular economy and sustainable forest management, with a view to achieving 20 per cent national forest coverage between 2030 and 2035. In that context, the Government adopted its 2015 to 2020 national strategy to combat climate change — in order to include this particular theme in its sectoral policies. Accordingly, both developed and emerging countries should be invited, within the limits of their responsibilities, to contribute further to mobilizing financial resources pursuant to the recommendations of the 2015 Paris Agreement.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We must also promote a green economy that centres around protecting ecosystems, promoting clean technologies and improving the productivity of our resources. In that context, it is more crucial than ever to ensure the effective and prompt implementation of the international commitments made at the meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to adopt a global pact for the environment in the near future. For its part, Cote d’Ivoire will resolutely respect its climate commitments within the framework of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which was adopted in 2015. To that end, our country has pledged to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by 28 per cent by 2030, relying on the energy, transport, agriculture and waste-management sectors to do so.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The main consequences of the shifts brought about by climate change are drought, deforestation, coastal erosion, natural disasters, declining agricultural yields, the displacement of populations and the consequent abandonment of livelihoods. Climate change threatens entire ecosystems that support food and nutritional systems for hundreds of millions of people, degrading the soil and thereby reducing the nutritional value of the food we grow. It also has a disruptive impact on water and sanitation systems. All of those consequences pose a major threat to both the health of our populations and the food and nutritional security of our societies. That is one of the greatest challenges facing present and future generations.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Our people will also need to be in good health and have easy access to innovation and information and communication technologies as a strategic tool for accelerating their development. In that context, UNESCO should play a more prominent role in improving our education systems, because only by offering our people, and our young people in particular, opportunities to forge a future can we contribute to tackling such scourges as illegal immigration, drugs, organized crime, youth radicalization, terrorism, obscurantism, unemployment, marginalization on the basis of social inequality and, particularly, gender inequality. The effects of climate change are increasingly being felt in all regions of the world on a general scale, and in developing countries such as Cote d’Ivoire in particular.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In that context, priority must be given to investment in human capital, through education, training, literacy programmes, capacity-building and regular skills acquisition. To that end, the Ivorian Government has introduced free public primary education and education kits and made schooling compulsory across the country for children aged between 6 and 16. Doing so required massive recruitment of teaching staff and an expansion of school and university infrastructure. In addition, our strategic literacy plan, covering the period 2019 to 2024, is aimed at significantly reducing the illiteracy rate to less than 10 per cent by 2024. It should be stressed that African countries can reduce social inequalities, especially gender inequalities, and make up lost ground only if they have well-trained and well-nourished men and women.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“All of those actions, which are in support of the various sectoral plans for electricity, health, nutrition, education, training, drinking water, housing, sanitation and social protection, have made it possible to make significant progress on those main social issues, leading to a significant reduction in the poverty rate. However, all those poverty-reduction strategies can produce the desired results only if they are supported by adequate funding from stakeholders, in particular the United Nations system. Cote d’Ivoire welcomes the celebration, on 24 January 2019, of the very first International Day of Education, established by the General Assembly in 2018. Education, Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals, is indeed one of the responses to major contemporary problems and to the challenges of transforming our societies.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Accordingly, through budgetary leverage, Cote d’Ivoire increased the level of spending on the poor from $1.7 billion in 2011 to $5 billion in 2019. In other words, it has tripled in eight years. In the same vein, Cote d’Ivoire declared the year 2019 to a year to strengthen social momentum through the roll-out of a major social programme over the 2019 to 2020 period, with a cost of $1.45 billion, subsequently raised to $2 billion. In addition, universal health coverage, introduced in 2014, will be extended next year, and a programme of productive social safety nets will be implemented in collaboration with the World Bank, at a cost of $150 million, which will enable 125,000 households to receive regular income over the 2015 to 2024 period.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Four years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the challenges and issues remain the same — the persistence of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in the world; the increasingly worrisome impact of climate change; migration crises, with their socioeconomic effects on migrants’ countries of origin and destination; and exclusion of all kinds. Those challenges require us to act in synergy with greater speed and determination. As part of its strategy for implementing the 2030 Agenda, Cote d’Ivoire has included the Sustainable Development Goals in its national development plan, as well as in its sectoral and local policies, and allocates a significant part of its budget to them. Indeed, President Ouattara has made improving people’s living and working conditions a priority.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Cote d’Ivoire therefore welcomes the adoption in the General Assembly by a large majority, on 12 December 2018, of resolution 73/127, establishing 24 April as the “International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace”, beginning in 2019. The resolution invites us to reclaim the three pillars of United Nations action — peace and security, development and human rights. Cote d’Ivoire’s accession to the various initiatives for building a better world, in particular the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union Agenda 2063, on sustainable and inclusive development, is a testament to its commitment to strengthening regional and international partnerships.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The theme of this year’s general debate, “Galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion”, underlines the importance that every Member State should attach to multilateralism as a key tool for collectively addressing the major contemporary challenges. However, the multilateralism enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations is today under strong pressure, which jeopardizes the many achievements of dialogue and international cooperation. That is why, given the scale of the current challenges, including the persistence of antagonisms and the temptation of unilateralism, we must renew our unwavering commitment to multilateralism, which, since the creation of the United Nations, has proven its effectiveness in the quest for peace and stability in the world.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“On behalf of the President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, I would like to extend our warm congratulations to the President on his election to lead the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session and to wish him every success in the conduct of his mandate. His election is a true source of pride for his country, Nigeria, for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and beyond, indeed, for the entire African continent. We also congratulate his predecessor, Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, for her outstanding leadership during the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, which was a great success. Finally, allow me to pay a special tribute to our Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, for his leadership and commitment to peace and development worldwide.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“It is through the accelerated implementation of the major reforms set out in Agenda 2063 that Africa can become the new frontier for development. Finally, in seeking solutions to the challenges we face, our collective intelligence dictates that we cooperate in the framework of a more cohesive, democratic and efficient Organization.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Only the work and development opportunities that are offered to our young people so that they can forge a future on their native soil can resolve the issue in a sustainable way. That stance is bolstered by the fact that 26 per cent of those living in Côte d’Ivoire are foreign nationals, as Côte d’Ivoire receives a significant share of regional migration flows. There is no denying that the management of the migration crisis requires a commitment from the countries of origin, transit and arrival. That is the only way in which we will be able to effectively fight against human trafficking and find appropriate solutions to irregular migration, as advocated by the African Union-European Union Summit held in 2017 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“In order to enhance and accelerate that momentum, Côte d’Ivoire has given itself the means through its second national development plan for 2016-2020, to mobilize the necessary resources to the tune of $60 billion. We have also adopted important security measures in the fight against the global threats that face all countries in the region. The challenges posed by unregulated migratory flows concern all of us, and we call for the concerted management of that significant issue, which affects mainly young people from Africa. The stance taken by Côte d’Ivoire on that matter, which is shared by most countries in our region, has always been that the problem must be tackled principally from the development point of view.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Otherwise, it is feared that some States facing large disparities will become breeding grounds or sanctuaries for terrorist groups, money-laundering centres or hubs for the illegal international transit and trafficking of drugs. The human dimension embraced by the Ivorian Government in drawing up its development policy has consisted of taking measures to ensure a better distribution of the benefits of strong economic growth and a more effective struggle against poverty. The significant investments devoted to infrastructure and the social sectors have made it possible to improve access to education, water, electricity and health care, leading to a significant reduction in the rate of poverty.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Humankind should be more at the heart of our concerns, as has been reflected in the focus of the major questions that have been the subject of the conferences organized on major issues, such as the protection of children, the protection of women, population and development, and human rights. Unfortunately, however, those meetings yielded few concrete results. That is why Côte d’Ivoire invites the international community to implement the relevant resolutions adopted during this cycle of thematic conferences that recognize the need to reject widespread poverty and combat illiteracy and endemic diseases, famine, malnutrition and other disparities.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“My delegation celebrates the memory of that worthy son of Africa, who was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of the United Nations. His vast and rich experience of international issues contributed, through his numerous initiatives and actions, to the strengthening of international peace and security. We must keep in mind that no collective security system can be viable unless we seek to eradicate the main causes of the sociopolitical unrest apparent in many States, in particular extreme poverty. While there is no doubt that the United Nations is focusing more and more on economic issues, it is imperative that we step up action on the social level, which is essential.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Such a consensus must also enable the Organization to play an important role in promoting conflict prevention and strengthening democratic institutions as the only means of combating rivalries between neighbours, as well as political, ethnic and religious tensions and border conflicts. The responsibility of the United Nations for a new commitment to action should continue to expand based on the principle of the responsibility to protect, which became a standard of public international law when it was adopted by all Member States at the 2005 World Summit. I would like to take this opportunity to pay a well-deserved tribute to our late former Secretary- General Kofi Annan, who died on 18 August, for his commitment to the success of that Summit.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“At the same time, we must agree that the fight against global warming will be successful only if we fully accept that global warming is a threat to world peace and international security. The solidarity that we ardently call for in the settlement of conflicts must not be selective or be limited to mere declarations of intent. We must in all circumstances reach a minimum moral and political consensus, allowing our Organization not to remain unmoved by the sight of the faces ravaged by the devastating effects of conflicts, wars and endemic diseases that we see daily on our television screens.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“In order to accomplish that, one of the priorities is to restore full moral authority to the United Nations, so that it can act and enforce its resolutions with the support of its Member States in all the wide-ranging fields of collective action at the service of all peoples. The United Nations is at a crossroads and must meet various expectations that will shape its future and effectiveness. In that regard, Côte d’Ivoire believes, as President Alassane Ouattara has often said, that now is the time to reform the Security Council so that it can be more effective and more representative of today’s world. Only a truly united Council can enable our Organization to effectively address major security issues such as the fight against nuclear proliferation, terrorism, mass crimes and crimes against humanity.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The theme of this session is therefore relevant and constitutes a call to reinvent the action of the United Nations and the modes of collaboration among its Member States. The challenges and uncertainties facing our world today must lead Member States to embrace a shared vision of the central role and value of the United Nations in shaping our collective responses. Member States must therefore be resolute in taking back the ownership of our universal Organization so that it remains an organization for all peoples, in accordance with the ideals of the founding fathers.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“There is therefore an urgent need to speed up the modernization of our Organization and to consolidate the foundations of the Charter of the United Nations. Based on that important action, we welcome the aptly chosen theme of the general debate for this session of the General Assembly, namely, “Making the United Nations relevant to all people: global leadership and shared responsibilities for peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies”. Little progress is being made, unfortunately, in the struggle against world hunger and extreme poverty, the increasing number of crises and human tragedies, and the flow of displaced persons and refugees, all of which continue to be significant sources of concern for the international community.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Our session opens in an international context marked by many challenges and uncertainties that are gradually eroding our ability to respond collectively and adequately to threats to international peace and security. In addition, there are challenges relating to humanitarian and health crises, extreme poverty, and violations of human rights and democratic values. The Organization we share and the world today seem to be losing their vocation to protect the most vulnerable, to promote a more just and inclusive global governance, and to build a true community of destiny among nations. This observation justifies and makes essential the existence of the United Nations and reminds us that changes in the international scene and the successive shifts in international actors should not be to the detriment of the Organization.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“I would like to congratulate Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her auspicious election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session and wish her, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, every success in the implementation of the priorities of her mandate. Our congratulations also go to her predecessor, Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, for the quality of the work accomplished during his term of office. Allow me also to pay special tribute to our Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, for his tireless efforts and strong determination to consolidate the important role of the United Nations.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“In conclusion, I would like to reiterate the gratitude of President Ouattara, his Government and the Ivorian people to the United Nations and the entire international community for their commitment to peace and stability in Côte d’Ivoire. That constitutes to be the precondition for development.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Before concluding, I would like to say that Côte d’Ivoire notes that the President of the General Assembly at the previous session opened an informal interactive dialogue, at the level of the United Nations, on the issue of the responsibility to protect. In the aftermath of that useful forum and in the light of the lessons learned, Côte d’Ivoire, following the example of the Secretary- General, believes that the principle of the responsibility to protect has achieved sufficient maturity and that what remains to be done now is to implement it. On that basis, the Economic Community of West African States and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect jointly held a regional forum in Abuja devoted to that concept. A similar meeting is scheduled to take place in Côte d’Ivoire at the end of this year.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Secondly, national reconciliation has been effected through the National Commission for Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation, which has been serving as the standing body for maintaining political dialogue. Reconstruction and economic renewal are already off to a good start, with an estimated growth of more than 8 per cent in the gross national product for 2012. The economic situation has greatly improved, thanks to the support of our development partners, especially after we met the goals of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative in June. The resulting drop in our foreign debt and the adoption of our national development plan for the period 2012-2015 allow Côte d’Ivoire to hope that we can reach the double-digit economic growth rate necessary for our country to become an emerging country by 2020, as envisioned by President Ouattara.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Resolutely committed to the path of postconf lict reconstruction, and with the aim of national cohesion, Côte d’Ivoire has made considerable progress in the political, economic, social, security and humanitarian spheres since 21 May 2011, the official date on which President Ouattara assumed the presidency of the Republic. Those results were made possible by the determination of the Ivorian Government to implement the three central priorities defined by the President when he took office. First, on security and stability, significant joint efforts by the Government and the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire lead to improvements in the situation, even in the west of the country, which has been the most problematic area.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“With that in mind, I hope that the forthcoming negotiations on Security Council reform will be crowned with success, yielding a Council that truly represents the realities of our shared history and our contemporary world. I would like now to make some remarks about the situation in my country. Thanks to the most valuable support of the international community, especially the United Nations, Côte d’Ivoire has emerged from the military and political crisis that rocked the foundations of its economic and social development for nearly a decade.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“It is important to act quickly, because the composition of the Council is the keystone of our collective security system, and in that light its composition should be designed to maximize efficiency. In order for the Security Council to be truly effective in its decisions, since it devotes two-thirds of its time to the African continent, we consider it more critical than ever for Africa to hold a permanent seat with the right of veto, in accordance with the recommendations defined in the Ezulwini Consensus. Taking duly into account the wishes of African heads of State and Government, the reform of the Security Council could represent a historical opportunity that the international community should seize in order to repair an anomaly in international relations.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“With respect to the links between economic development and the environment, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in June in Rio de Janeiro, shows what we can accomplish when we work together to build a better world for current generations and those to come. The combined crises in food, energy and the environment threaten the peace and security of all humankind. Yet we have the means to achieve a world free of famine and hunger. It is within our capabilities. Allow me to stress that, with respect to the international system, Côte d’Ivoire urges all delegations, as we take up the eighth round of intergovernmental negotiations concerning the reform of the Security Council, to show flexibility and a spirit of compromise.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Côte d’Ivoire, like many other African and non-African States, sincerely hopes that the Organization will be able to adopt in the near future a legally binding arms trade treaty, following the efforts made by all parties to reach a consensus. The international community must not lose the historic opportunity it has to better regulate, if not outright prohibit, a trade that causes 500,000 deaths each year and that is the main cause of violations of human rights and the destabilization of our States, as well as worsening conditions for our people, and, above all, poses a constant threat to regional and international peace and security.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“In that regard, I welcome the fact that the fortyfirst ECOWAS Summit, held in Yamoussoukro on 28 and 29 June, decided to convene a joint summit of West African and Central African States to take joint measures on piracy and organized transnational crime in the Gulf of Guinea pursuant to Security Council resolution 2039 (2012). However, despite the goodwill of the countries of the subregion, they cannot, on their own, deal with the threats facing maritime security. My country welcomes the proposal of the Secretary-General to facilitate the organization of a summit of heads of State of the region to enable them to draw up a regional strategy to combat maritime piracy, together with the African Union.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“I am pleased to note the creation of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre, which is financed and hosted by Saudi Arabia. I also welcome the proposal made by the Secretary-General to appoint a United Nations counter-terrorism coordinator, and I would like to assure him of Côte d’Ivoire’s full support. Transnational crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and the destruction of the environment are threats to the world in general and to Africa in particular. The International Maritime Organization, in its 2010 annual report, quite rightly said that the West African coast is one of the six main centres of piracy in the world. Responsibility for the measures to be taken to deal with these scourges lies first and foremost with the States of the subregion and the principal subregional organizations.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“When we look at the non-State players involved in the current conflicts in Guinea-Bissau and Mali, particularly the terrorist networks and armed groups linked to transnational crime and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, we note how incomplete the current instruments for resolving these crises are, based as they are on negotiation and mediation. Today, there is no questioning the fact that the resurgence of terrorism in the Sahel region in general and in northern Mali in particular has created a sanctuary, a lawless zone. Western Africa faces other dangerous threats to the security of not only the region itself but also other regions, perhaps even Europe. Eradicating these problems requires concerted and diligent action by ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Determined to put an end to this abusive occupation of the north of Mali, ECOWAS plans to deploy a military force at the request of the Government of Mali to help the Malian army efficiently fulfil its sovereign mission of defending the territorial integrity of the country. The establishment and deployment of such a force requires major support from the African Union, the United Nations and all development partners. Indeed, the presence of groups with links to terrorists in northern Mali is a genuine threat, which could lead, if nothing is done, to the implosion of the entire West African region and the Sahel.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has always promoted the path of negotiation highlighted by the theme of this session, is working tirelessly to ensure a positive outcome to those crises and to ensure the restoration of constitutional order and democracy in Mali and Guinea-Bissau. While the situation has considerably improved in Guinea-Bissau, the one in Mali continues to be of major concern. Rebel movements linked to terrorist networks continue to occupy the main towns in the north of that country, which they are now pillaging and destroying with total impunity.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who won a place in the history of Côte d’Ivoire, and indeed of the African continent, through his pragmatic approach to the settlement of conflict through dialogue. For that reason, President Allassane Ouattara spares no efforts in seeking lasting solutions, both nationally in the post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, and regionally, especially with regard to the situations in Mali and Guinea-Bissau. Indeed, the security of West Africa is seriously challenged by military and political crises orchestrated by military, rebel or terrorist movements, particularly in Mali and Guinea-Bissau.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“The purposes ascribed to the United Nations in its Charter can be summarized by the triptych of peace, liberty and development. To achieve those Charter purposes, the founding fathers of the Organization established a system of collective security on the basis of two major principles: the prohibition of recourse to the use of force in international relations and the obligation to settle disputes peacefully. Now more than ever, we must enhance our collective security system and ensure that it has all the necessary resources to be effective. For his part, the President of Côte d’Ivoire is committed to strictly following a policy of peace and dialogue. These are principles that were enshrined as cardinal virtues, through trial by fire, by the late President, Mr.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“I wish to reiterate to His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon my sincere thanks for his determined commitment and for his persistent quest for peace throughout the world. I reiterate to him once again the infinite gratitude of my President and the entire nation for his unfailing commitment to Côte d’Ivoire. Through the Secretary- General, I would like to pay tribute to all the civil and military personnel of the United Nations for their tireless efforts on behalf of peace and security. The theme chosen for this session, “Bringing about adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations by peaceful means”, follows on from the theme of the previous session. In particular, it reflects the essence of the ideals of the San Francisco Conference, which led to the birth of the Organization.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, who was not able to be here today, wishes me to express, on behalf of the people and Government of Côte d’Ivoire, the warmest congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. I would like to assure Mr.Jeremić of the full support of the Ivorian delegation for the success of his mandate. I would also like to convey to his predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, my delegation’s satisfaction with the work undertaken and the encouraging results achieved under his presidency. His commitment to our common cause has allowed the Organization to fully play the role conferred upon it by the United Nations Charter.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)