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Foreign Minister of Belarus to speak at 62nd session of UN General Assembly September 28

On September 28 Foreign Minister of Belarus will deliver a speech at the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, BelTA was told by spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Belarus Andrei Popov. The Belarusian delegation will focus on promoting initiatives of the President of Belarus about recognition of diversity of ways for progressive development and forming global partnership against slavery and trafficking in people in the XXI century. Special attention will be paid to the discussion of the issues formulated in the UNO Millennium Declaration of forming just global economic order via building an open, just and multilateral trade system which abides by the generally accepted rules as well as via renunciation of usage of unilateral exterritorial economic measures of forcing as means of exercising political and economic pressure on independent states. The Belarusian party plans to promote a draft of UN General Assembly resolution on strengthening international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study and mitigate consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe as well as to implement a proposal of the Minsk International Conference 2006 to declare “The Decade of Revival and Sustained Development of the Regions Affected After the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster”. Promotion of amendment to Appendix “B” to Kioto Protocol of UN Frame convention on Climate Change concerning quantitative obligations of the Republic of Belarus to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, which will allow the Republic of Belarus to contribute to the international efforts to prevent climate change and take part on full-scale in the implementation of the Protocol mentioned will serve national interests of our country. The Belarusian delegation will also continue to stand for constructive international cooperation in the sphere of human rights protection based on equal and mutual respect of human rights. The Belarusian delegation will focus in detail on the issues of further renewal and development of working methods in the main UNO organs (General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat), as well as increasing quality and effectiveness of UNO system activities at the country and regional levels.