We stand by our previous decisions.

In doing so, we think that we are upholding our values.

What values do we most uphold?

One can only hope.

We must maintain and improve the implementation of human rights standards.

The draft resolution before us today accommodates the views we have held.

It is important, it seems to me, that we should maintain this requirement at all times.

Let us all uphold the principles outlined in chapter II of the Programme.

2. We hold firmly that the elections should proceed as scheduled under the Paris Agreements.

We tried so hard not to have love for each other but we could not help ourselves.

We hold that there must be free access to the Holy Places for the faithful of all Abrahamic religions.

He added, quot We remain steadfast in our strategy to erase Israel from the map ... quot .

But as we see in this interval, we'll stick to the derivative. f prime of x is equal to 2x plus 4.

And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great no mission too hard.

However, while we uphold this spirit, it is our opinion that serious consideration should be given to a review of the provisions of the Charter.

Before the people of the world... let it now be noted... that here in our decision, this is what we stand for

The EU is committed to ensuring the availability of adequate resources for the United Nations while adhering to our longstanding principles of budgetary discipline.

Thirdly, we firmly hold that all decisions and resolutions of the Council must be strictly complied with by all parties and by the Council itself.

We need to develop appropriate guidance which maximizes the capacity to provide physical protection while upholding humanitarian principles and safeguarding humanitarian space.

In the long run economically, demographically, politically, strategically time is on our side, if we stick to our values and our principles.

We keep hoping that somehow meetings of heads of state will magically produce the policies that will rebalance world trade.

The Greek crisis could be the Trojan horse that leads Europe toward deeper political integration. One can only hope.

We should be inspired by the Secretary General's words in his recent article on breaking the nuclear deadlock solutions are within our reach we must grasp them .

Therefore, if we are going to keep 2006 in the formulation proposed for paragraph 10, then we would insist on keeping 2006 in the other paragraphs as well.

Our collective security, therefore, can only be realized when all of us that have been entrusted to negotiate disarmament agreements by the international community adopt a spirit of give and take.

We firmly hold that countries should choose their own political, economic and social system, as well as their mode of development on the basis of their particular circumstances.

In so doing, we would only be abiding by the criterion of universality, which has always guided our Organization and which must be constantly adapted to newly emerging realities.

These are traditions which we still cling to and I know full well from my experience that these are the traditions that the people of this country like to cling to and certainly enjoy.

According to the Prime Minister of Jamaica, The Most Honourable Percival James Patterson, it is not that we embrace globalization, but it is globalization which embraces us .

But we must stand firm on some standards and principles the inviolability of frontiers, the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, the withdrawal of Armenian armed units from all occupied territories and the return of refugees to their homes.

I therefore suggest that we stick to the term legal capacity as used in that Convention, which would mean deleting the language in the last set of square brackets in the chapeau to paragraph 2.

In the short term, time may be on Russia s side. In the long run economically, demographically, politically, strategically time is on our side, if we stick to our values and our principles.

We are consistent in maintaining that a reordering of priorities is called for and that a slight shifting of resources away from the acquisition of unnecessary arsenals and into development programmes would result in tremendous social and economic benefits to the citizens of many developing countries.

Let us remember the provisions of the Charter to which we all adhere, whose purposes and principles include international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights.

Given the difficulties we experienced in getting agreement as to the various forms of violence and abuse that should be listed, I suggest that we stick with the generic phrase all forms of exploitation, violence and abuse in paragraph 1.

Once again we must ask what kind of United Nations Charter and legal principles is it that we are sustaining if military might is legitimized as a counterbalance to legality and morality in order to coerce people into any settlement?

It is alarming and totally unacceptable that as we seriously grapple with the formidable task of formulating a constitutional dispensation, the regime should be reverting to the totalitarian methods which characterized the worst features of apartheid rule.

A jihadist Mali admittedly does not directly threaten the US, or at least less so than it does Europe. But does it make sense to stick to such a simple analysis after what occurred on September 11, 2001?

As the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan noted in his statement to the General Assembly at the current session, at the upcoming 1995 review and extension Conference of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons we intend to embrace the position of those States that are in favour of extending the Treaty unconditionally and for an indefinite period.

More specifically, on item 4 of the programme of work for 1994, we stand by our view that the various items relating to the follow up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) are sub items under an agenda item covering all the follow ups to UNCED.

Mr. IBANEZ FAJARDO (Cuba) (interpretation from Spanish) It cannot be claimed that any atmosphere of cordiality exists when criminal policies continue to be carried out in an attempt to starve my small country to death, solely because we have a dream of independence to which we hold fast and a plan for social justice that fits our own conditions.

Maybe this is because feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

More generally, we agree with Obama that in the long run we...cannot keep...safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values, and that we uphold our most cherished values not only because doing so is right, but because it strengthens us and keeps us safe.