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Mahamadou Issoufou

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2011-09-24
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2020-09-24
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  1. “The tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States, commemorated last 11 September, and the recent suicide attack against the United Nations headquarters in Abuja in Nigeria prove that no region of the world is safe from terrorism. We firmly condemn all acts of terrorism, wherever, for whatever reason and by whomever they are committed, as they present one of the most serious threats to peace and security. Terrorism, as the Assembly knows, attacks the values that constitute the essence of the United Nations Charter: respect for human rights, the rule of law, the rules governing war and the protection of civilians, tolerance among peoples and nations and the peaceful resolution of disputes. In Niger, we face this threat on our northern border with Algeria, to the west with Mali and to the south with Nigeria.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  2. “This is the moment for our Organization to take a bold decision designed to settle the Israel-Palestinian problem definitively, a settlement without which the Arab Spring will be unable to guarantee peace and 11-51191 18 security in the entire Middle East. Indeed, the failure of democracies to resolve this long-standing crisis will inevitably reinforce terrorism and will erase the democratic achievements of the Spring. My country, Niger, one of the 122 Member States that have already recognized the State of Palestine, is supporting its request for full membership in the United Nations, as presented this morning at this sixty- sixth session of the General Assembly.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  3. “We had great hopes for the resumption on 9 May 2010 of indirect negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, mediated by the United Nations. The start of direct bilateral negotiations represented real hope for reaching a global peace agreement based on a two- State solution, with an independent and viable Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its neighbours. It is undoubtedly the failure of those talks that has led the Palestinian Authority to take steps to achieve recognition of the State of Palestine based, on the one hand, on the 1967 borders, and on the other, on its admission as a full Member of the United Nations.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  4. “If you add to that the recent crises in banking and sovereign debt, along with the shortfall in direct investment in Africa, where there is nonetheless great scope for economic growth, you can understand the inadequacy of global economic growth, particularly the collapse of economic growth in wealthy countries. The economic elasticity and resilience we need to cope with the crises will grow only with the development of the countries of the South. The world’s equilibrium depends on the balanced development of all its regions; in particular, the creation of a powerful middle class in every region of the world will strengthen economic growth, stability and peace. For more than 60 years, the Middle East has been one of the most turbulent regions on the planet.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  5. “The liberalization and privatization touted by such programmes were conducted anarchically; even today, such liberalization has been applied only in sectors where weak countries such as ours have no relative advantages. As we know, such liberalization did not affect the markets for labour or agricultural products. My country, Niger, has suffered greatly from such policies. This is, finally, where we should recall that the promise made by the world’s wealthy nations, beginning in the 1970s, to increase their public development aid to 0.7 per cent of GDP has still not been kept.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  6. “Today, 1,210 people, that is, 17 per 100 million of the world’s population, control revenues of $4,500 billion — 8 per cent of the world’s aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) — while the income of 20 per cent of the poorest represents only 1.5 per cent, and that of the 2.5 billion people who live on less than $2 a day — 40 per cent of the total population — represents only 5 per cent. Thus a thousand or so people have an income one and a half times larger than all the 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. Besides being morally shocking, this situation is economically inefficient, since it strangles economic growth. Furthermore, the implementation of structural adjustment programmes that began in the 1980s is a perfect illustration of bad global economic governance.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  7. “The promises of freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law and solidarity that have been made to the people of the world at the global and the national levels have not always been kept. The absence of global economic regulation, the domination of financial capital over even the real economy, the growth of inequalities between and within nations are just so many factors in the chaos, crises and conflicts that are disturbing peace around the world. Besides, can a world where several billion people live in poverty be peaceful? What do the billion human beings who are hungry have to lose? Can the Somalis, who are suffering the tortures of hunger right now, or the inhabitants of the Sahel, who deal with hunger over and over again, believe that they live in a just, humane world? Can extreme poverty coexist peacefully with extreme wealth?”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  8. “The choice of theme for the current session is proof that the prophecy of Isaiah, whose verse is rightly engraved in front of the United Nations building, has been slow to become reality. Indeed, the international situation has been and continues to be characterized by serious tensions. We might have thought that the end of the cold war would open the way to an age of full and lasting peace around the world. Unfortunately, owing to a lack of the ability or perhaps even the will to attack the evil at the root, our hope for a world free of conflict, like the line of the horizon, recedes as we approach it. The root of the evil is bad political and economic governance.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  9. “The President did well in choosing as the theme for his term “The role of mediation in the peaceful settlement of disputes”. Under the guidance of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, sustained efforts have been made in this area. Here I would like to pay tribute 17 11-51191 to him for the work he has done during his first term and to congratulate him on his re-election on 21 June as head of the Organization. I would also like once again to thank him for the Organization’s unfailing support during the multiple crises that my country, Niger, has undergone in recent years. More generally, we have seen his commitment to the concerns of the African continent and hope that his new term will enable him to continue on the same path.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

  10. ““They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (The Holy Bible, Isaiah 2:4) Far from achieving Isaiah’s prophecy, humankind continues to face serious challenges at this time when His Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss has passed the baton to the new President after presiding brilliantly over the General Assembly at its previous session. I have no doubt that on his election to the presidency of the Assembly at its sixty-sixth session, the President brings to it great strengths, bolstered in particular with the understanding and mastery of international realities he has acquired as, among other positions, Permanent Representative of his country, and having sat on the Security Council during Qatar’s non-permanent membership.”

    2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)