Secretariat of State

2005

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Silvano M. Tomasi at the Plenary Session of the 6th Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organization (WTO) (December 18, 2005)
[English, French]

Adhesion of the Holy See to the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) (December 13, 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Giovanni Lajolo at the 13th Ministerial Council of the O.S.C.E. (December 6, 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Silvano M. Tomasi at the 90th Session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) (Geneva, 30 November- 2 December 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Francisco-Javier Lozano at the 6th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Ban of Anti-Personnel Landmines (November 28 - December 2, 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by Mons. Renato Volante at the Thirty-third Session of the General Conference of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) (Rome, 22 November 2005)
[Italian, Portuguese]

Intervention by Archbishop John P. Foley, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, (Tunisia, 18 November 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Third Commission of the 60th Session of the U.N. General Assembly on "Report of the UNHCR" (New York, 9 November 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Second Commission of the 60th Session of the U.N. General Assembly on "Sustainable Development" (New York, 3 November 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Fourth Commission of the 60th Session of the U.N. General Assembly on "United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East" (New York, 1 November 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the 60th Session of the U.N. General Assembly on "Holocaust remembrance: draft resolution (A/60/L.12)" (New York, 1 November 2005)
[English]

Homily of Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo on the occasion of the Solemn Pontifical Mass for the final celebrations for the Year of the Eucharist (Moscow, 30 October 2005)
[French, Italian]

Intervention by Card. Paul Poupard, Head of the Holy See Delegation, at the meeting held in Faro (Portugal) on the occasion of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe (October 28, 2005)
[French, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Fourth Commission of the U.N. General Assembly on "Questions relating to information" (New York, 13 October 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Third Commission of the U.N. General Assembly on "Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace in the twenty-first century" (New York, 13 October 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by Mons. Francesco Follo at the 33rd Session of the General Conference of UNESCO (October 10, 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by Mr Francisco Dionísio, Head of the Holy See Delegation, at the 60th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on: "World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond" (October 6, 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Silvano M. Tomasi at the 56th Session of the Executive Committee of UNHCR (Geneva, 5 October 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Third Commission of the U.N. General Assembly on "Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing" (New York, 4 October 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the First Committee of the U.N. General Assembly on "General and Complete Disarmament" (New York, 3 October 2005)
[English]

Intervention by Mons. Leo Boccardi, at the 49th Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Vienna, 28 September 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the General Debate of the 60th Session of the U.N. General Assembly (New York, 23 September 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Conference on "Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty" (CTBT) (New York, 22 September 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Silvano Maria Tomasi at the 11th session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the "Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects" (CCW) (August 4, 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the ECOSOC on “Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance: Lessons learnt from the Tsunami” (New York, 13 July 2005)
[English, French, Italian, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the United Nations' Conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons (New York, 11 July 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the annual Conference of the ECOSOC “High-Level segment” (New York, 1st July 2005)
[English, French, German]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Antonio Cañizares at the 5th session of the International Conference sponsored by OSCE on «Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance» (Cordoba, 8 June 2005)
[English, Portuguese, Spanish]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Antonio Cañizares at the opening session of the International Conference sponsored by OSCE on «Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance» (Cordoba, 8 June 2005)
[English, Portuguese, Spanish]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Silvano Tomasi at the 93rd session of the International Labour Conference (Geneva, 7 June 2005)
[English, French, German, Portuguese]

Opening address of Mons. Francesco Follo at the inauguration of the Colloquium entitled "Culture, Reason and Freedom" organized by U.N.E.S.C.O. (Paris, 2 June 2005)
[Italian, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Józef Miroslaw Zycinski, Archbishop of Lublin and Head of the Holy See Delegation at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the Bologna Process (Bergen, 19-20 May 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by Card. Lozano Barragán at the 58th World Health Organization (Geneva, 18 May 2005)
[English, Portuguese, Spanish]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Giovanni Lajolo at the Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the member states of the Council of Europe (Warsaw, 16 May 2005)
[English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War (New York, 9 May 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Michael Miller at the Seminar organized by the European Cultural Convention on ''Teaching Remembrance through Cultural Heritage'' (Krakow-Auschwitz, 4 May 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (New York, 4 May 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Statement of Mons. Francesco Follo at the Plenary Assembly of the Executive Council of UNESCO (Paris, 27 April 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Salvatore Pennacchio at the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Bangkok, 25 April 2005)
[English]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Thirteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (New York, 20 April 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the 59th Session of the Organization of the United Nations on the occasion of the Special Tribute to the late Pope John Paul II (New York, 6 April 2005)
[English]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Silvano Tomasi at the 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights on "Religious freedom and the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance" (Geneva, 2 April 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Silvano Tomasi at the 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights on "Access to medication in the context of pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria" (Geneva, 29 March 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Statement of H.E. Mons. Silvano Tomasi at the 61st Session of the Commission on Human Rights (Geneva, 22 March 2005)
[English]

Statement of Card. Jean-Louis Tauran at the inauguration of the New Museum of Holocaust History in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) (March 16, 2005)
[English, French]

Statement of Mons. Fortunatus Nwachukwu at the 32nd Permanent Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Geneva, 10 March 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by Prof. Mary Ann Glendon at the 49th Session of the U.N. Commission on the status of women (March 7, 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Juliusz Janusz at the Conference of Ministers Responsible for Regional and Local Government (February 24-25, 2005)
[English, French]

Intervention of H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations on "Informal consultations on the report of the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change and on the United Nations Millennium Project 2005 report" (February 21, 2005)
[English, French]

Intervention of H.E. Mons. Giampaolo Crepaldi at the 43rd Session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development, on the 10th Year of the World Summit in Copenhagen (February, 11 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore at the 59th General Assembly on: "Informal meeting of the plenary to continue an exchange of views on the recommendations contained in the report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change" (January 31, 2005)
[English, Portuguese]

Intervention by the Holy See at the 28th Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by Allied Forces (24 January 2005)
[English, French, Portuguese]

Intervention by Mons. Celestino Migliore at the Plenary of the General Assembly of the United Nations on Item 39: "Strengthening of the Co-ordination of Humanitarian and Disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance: Draft Resolution (A/59/L.58)" (18 January 2005)
[English, French, German, Portuguese]

Homily of S.E. Mons. Giovanni Lajolo on the occasion of the 1650th anniversary of the birth of Saint Augustine (Tunisia, 5 January 2005)
[French, Spanish]