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Nguyen Manh Cam

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS NGUYEN MANH CAM

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1992-09-24
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1999-09-24
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  1. “We have finalized our national programme of action and have just submitted, within the specified time-frame, our first national report on the implementation of the Convention. Against the backdrop of the evolving international situation, Asia and the Pacific reflect fairly clearly the characteristics of today's world. While several nations have seized opportunities to achieve rapid development, not a small number of others remain mired in a state of underdevelopment, deprivation and poverty. Alongside the trend towards cooperation, some seeds of potential conflicts are being sown. We are pleased to note that South-East Asia is now entering a new stage with fine prospects for peace and prosperity.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  2. “In this regard, we welcome the initial results of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development at Rio, especially Agenda 21, aiming at the goal of sustainable development. The immediate question, however, is that of securing the financial and technological resources needed to implement Agenda 21. The social dimension, including the concern for children, assumes the same long-term significance as regards both sustainable development and the environment. As is shown in the report of the Secretary-General, in the follow-up to the Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit for Children, much has been done in the past two years, but our commitment and our action need to be imbued with even greater universality. For its part, Viet Nam was the first country in Asia to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  3. “The famine in many countries, most severe in some African countries like Somalia and the Sudan, is deeply moving and calls for vast emergency assistance from other countries and from international organizations. In view of the above-mentioned opportunities and challenges, it is imperative for States and nations to step up cooperation to promote their own development and at the same time to join forces in solving global problems and in contributing to the building of a new, sounder and better world order based on truly democratic and egalitarian international relations, mutual respect and reciprocal benefit for the sake of the overall objectives of peace and development.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  4. “The global economic environment also contains elements of uncertainty. The rate of economic growth has fallen to its lowest level in many years. The symptoms of a new financial crisis, which could shake the international monetary system, can be perceived. Tendencies towards greater protectionism and the deadlock in the Uruguay Round are only worsening the economic situation of many countries, especially the developing countries. Even more worrisome is the inexorably widening gap between the developed industrial countries and the developing countries. We cannot remain indifferent to the poverty and hunger suffered daily by millions of men and women across the continents.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  5. “Simmering disputes, violent conflicts, aggression and foreign occupation, interference in the internal affairs of States, policies of hegemony and domination, ethnic strife, religious intolerance, new forms of racism and narrowly conceived nationalism are major and dangerous obstacles to harmonious coexistence among States." Concurrently with the settlement of some regional conflicts, we have witnessed the outbreak of a series of new conflicts on several continents, even in the heart of Europe, a continent that should have enjoyed peace and stability thanks to the Helsinki mechanism of cooperation and security. In practice, policies of embargo, coercion and diktat are still being pursued by some countries or groups of countries against others, thus hindering the latter's development.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  6. “With the threat of annihilation by nuclear war receding and no longer hanging over the peoples of the world like the sword of Damocles, all nations might expect to live in a world of peace, security, justice and prosperity, with egalitarian, mutually beneficial cooperation and the joint application of the miraculous achievements of the modern scientific and technological revolution to the benefit of each country's and the whole world's development and well-being. Regrettably, the overall picture of today's world is far from being promising. We fully share the view expressed by the leaders of the non-aligned countries in the Jakarta Message of 6 September 1992: "The world today is still far from being a peaceful, just and secure place.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  7. “On this occasion I cannot fail to convey warm greetings to the new Members of our great family, the United Nations. Since the last session of the General Assembly, we have continued to witness profound and far-reaching changes on a global scale. Those changes have led to the disintegration of the international order that came into being after the Second World War and that had existed for nearly half a century. The new world situation opens up new opportunities for but at the same time presents acute challenges to the peace, security and prosperity of each nation, as well as that of the international community as a whole.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)

  8. “On behalf of the delegation of Viet Nam, permit me at the outset to extend my warmest congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Stoyan Ganev, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session. I am sure Mr. Ganev's guidance of this session of the General Assembly will make it a success. We also wish to express our appreciation for the outstanding contribution of His Excellency Mr. Samir S. Shihabi, President of the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session. We should also like to express our great appreciation of the untiring and dynamic efforts of by His Excellency Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in the noble cause of peace, security and cooperation among nations.”

    1992-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 47 (1992)