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Armando Emílio Guebuza

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2006-09-24

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2013-09-24

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1. “The merit of the theme that the President has put forward for our debate is that it gives us yet another opportunity to reflect on issues that we have dealt with in the past in seeking solutions for the remaining challenges imposed by underdevelopment. It also lends itself to a debate of at least three important issues related to the problem of underdevelopment. The first is that no country alone, however resourceful it may be, can successfully overcome these challenges on its own, at least not in the medium term, because these are challenges noted for their complexity and interrelationships with other global problems and phenomena. The second point that can be inferred from this theme is that, while underdevelopment can be attributed to or identified with a given country, its consequences transcend national borders.”

   2006-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 61 (2006)

2. “This plight undermines our efforts to address, speedily and successfully, the challenges that prevent our enjoying sounder economic and social growth and weaken our capacity to deal, more effectively and with greater impact, with the various manifestations of poverty and to fight, more vigorously, diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Given our state of development, more often than not we are powerless to prevent or mitigate the impact of natural disasters and environmental degradation. Consequently, poverty prevents the part of our humanity located in developing countries from enjoying the freedom of choice and action that the other part of mankind takes for granted.”

   2006-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 61 (2006)

3. “We commend the devotion and tireless efforts of this son of Africa, our continent, for his work for the promotion of international peace, security and development, as well as for having created the solid foundations for wide- ranging reforms of the United Nations. One of the issues on which our debate focused last year related to development. We noted with concern then that there was a substantive lack of progress in forging partnerships. In this regard, we salute the President for bringing the theme “Implementing a global partnership for development” for debate at this session. We live in a very unbalanced world, in which developing countries find themselves in a vicious cycle of dependency and vulnerability.”

   2006-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 61 (2006)

4. “On behalf of the people and Government of the Republic of Mozambique, and indeed on my own behalf, I would like to place on record our congratulations to the President on her election to preside over the sixty-first session of the General Assembly. We are delighted to see a distinguished daughter of Bahrain in the stewardship of the highest organ of the United Nations. We reiterate our congratulations to her predecessor, Mr. Jan Eliasson, Minister for Foreign 11 06-52988 Affairs of Sweden, for his leadership during the sixtieth session. We congratulate him once again on the commendable work done during his tenure of office. We would also like to pay a glowing tribute to Mr. Kofi Annan for his accomplishments during his mandate as Secretary-General.”

   2006-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 61 (2006)