Islamic Republic of Iran. Republic of Senegal.

Address by Al Hadji Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, President of the Republic of the Gambia

His Excellency Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, President of the Republic of Gambia

His Excellency Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, President of the Republic of the Gambia

Abstaining Argentina, Brazil, Gambia, Slovakia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

J. J. Jammeh, President of the Republic of the Gambia, was escorted from the General Assembly Hall.

Al Hadji Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, President of the Republic of the Gambia, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall.

The President The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Republic of the Gambia.

Angola (2008), Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008), Ethiopia (2006), Gambia (2008), Lesotho (2006), Morocco (2006), Sierra Leone (2008), Sudan (2006)

Bahrain, China, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Zambia.

Micronesia (Federated States of)

Norway

The President On behalf of the General Assembly, I wish to thank the President of the Republic of the Gambia for the statement he has just made.

The President On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Al Hadji Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, President of the Republic of the Gambia, and to invite him to address the Assembly.

The Gambia had granted her political asylum.

Ms. Fye Hydara (Gambia) said it was true that the Government of the Gambia lacked an overall rural development policy.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) said that affirmative action policies did not exist in the Gambia.

Algeria (2007), Burkina Faso (2005), Cameroon (2007), Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007), Gambia (2005), Madagascar (2007), Nigeria (2005), South Africa (2005), Sudan (2007), Uganda (2007), Zambia (2007)

Chairman Crispin Grey Johnson (Gambia)

Ms. Singhateh (Gambia) said that there was no specific legislation in the Gambia on domestic violence against women.

Algeria (2005), Botswana (2006), Burundi (2006), Central African Republic (2005), Comoros (2005), Ethiopia (2005), Egypt (2006), Gambia (2005), Mauritania (2005), Nigeria (2006), Uganda (2005), Zambia (2005)

Mr. Taal (Gambia) stressed that sharia law applied only to family matters in the Gambia.

The Gambia was currently making efforts to extradite him.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) agreed that poverty was endemic to the Gambia, as to most developing countries in Africa.

Botswana (2005), Cameroon (2008), Comoros (2008), Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), Gambia (2005), Kenya (2007), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2007), Madagascar (2007), Mauritania (2006), Morocco (2008), Nigeria (2005), Zambia (2005)

The President I give the floor to the representative of Gambia.

The Gambia was indeed cooperating with countries of origin.

He therefore assumed that the Gambia's reservations to the Protocol did not jeopardize its commitments under the Convention, and he urged the withdrawal of the Gambia's reservations to the Protocol.

Ms. Simms said that the report stated that the Gambia was male dominated that was true not only of the Gambia, but of the entire world.

Until 1965, the team, and the country, were known as British Gambia.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) said that in Gambia, which was a haven for refugees from other countries of the region, female genital mutilation was an important topic.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) said that the Gambia would look to the Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya (FIDA) as a model. FIDA offered legal aid to women on a broad range of issues.

7th African Union Summit July 2006 in Banjul, the Gambia.

Angola, Brazil, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada and Serbia and Montenegro

Combined initial, second and third reports of the Gambia

The Gambia's labour and employment legislation certainly needed to be reviewed.

Ansu, a Gambian social media user, challenged the notion that elections cannot remove dictators from power. He tweeted Who says election cannot remove a dictator?

There are 25 organizations in the Gambia listed in the Dimitra database.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, the representatives of the Gambia took places at the Committee table.

The Gambia had made progress, against the background of the National Policy for the Advancement of Women.

The United States Embassy was also assisting the Gambia in tackling the traffic in children.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, the representatives of the Gambia took places at the Committee table

Apart from that, the Gambia had no legal aid system per se.

Ms. Singhateh (Gambia) noted that the country's current labour legislation was outdated.

The Gambia was essentially an agrarian society, and women's labour was the basis of its agricultural economy efforts were being made to raise their work from the level of purely subsistence farming to more commercial production.