Mr. Carlos Saúl Menem, President of the Argentine Republic, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall.

Mr. Carlos Saúl Menem, President of the Argentine Republic, was escorted from the General Assembly Hall.

I would like to take this opportunity to issue a challenge to President Menem, the Argentine Government, their Foreign Minister and the whole Argentine people.

President Menem (interpretation from Spanish) Allow me, Mr. President, to congratulate you on your election to such a responsible post.

As for President Menem apos s visit to the United Kingdom, I can add nothing to what Mr. Guido Di Tella said.

The approach advocated by the Foreign Minister of Argentina is a truly positive element of the overall foreign policy of the democratic Government of President Carlos Menem.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

In 1989, when it took office, the Government of President Carlos Raúl Menem created within the purview of the presidency a Bureau for Programming on Drug Prevention and Drug Trafficking Control.

As for the second question, I am very pleased with the talks I held with President Menem and Minister Guido Di Tella during my recent visit to Argentina.

President Carlos Menem approved a bill of Congress setting out Argentina apos s right to all mineral deposits within 200 miles of the islands.

President Menem was right and I am glad that he mentioned it when he referred to the increasing cooperation between the United Kingdom and Argentina in several areas.

Let me suggest that it is time for the members of the Assembly to consider seriously President Menem apos s suggestion for the creation of a civilian rapid response capability for humanitarian crises.

To this end, we should also like to voice our satisfaction at the proposal of President Menem of Argentina for the establishment of a volunteer corps, the white helmets .

The President (interpretation from French) On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations the President of the Argentine Republic, His Excellency Mr. Carlos Saúl Menem, and to invite him to address the Assembly.

Argentina s Carlos Menem, the heir to Peronism, the continent s most enduring form of caudillismo , was one such example, but his was a soft caudillismo , which basically maintained democratic norms .

As a country experiencing a period of emergency and in need of immediate assistance because of natural disasters and social hardships, we warmly support the proposal of Argentina apos s President Menem that a civilian service be created to provide immediate humanitarian assistance under the auspices of the United Nations.

One can only hope that Uribe has learned the lessons of doomed third term experiments in the region Peru s Alberto Fujimori and Argentina s Carlos Menem spring to mind and leave the presidency on a high note.

Does the Government of Great Britain compare the negotiations on Gibraltar with the question of the Malvinas? Second, taking this opportunity, Mr. Minister, I would like to know what stage the talks with the Argentine Government have reached on President Menem apos s visit to Great Britain.

We are quite clear about British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and the other British dependencies in the South Atlantic, so we were concerned at the recent incorporation into the constitution of Argentina of the new clause to which President Menem referred.

In this respect, the delegation of Argentina will be proposing to the Assembly, for its consideration at this session and in the context of agenda item 37, on emergency humanitarian assistance, implementation of an initiative by the President of the Republic of Argentina, Mr. Carlos Menem which he called the quot White Helmets quot .

In Argentina, despite the disaster of Juan Perón s return to power in 1973, after an 18 year exile, Perónism was reincarnated in the 1980 s in the presidency of Carlos Saúl Menem, and again with the arrival of President Néstor Kirchner and, later, his wife, current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Argentina military spending is one of the lowest of South America and as of 2010, its 0.9 of GDP only exceeds SurinameSince the 2000s, the Argentine defense industry was relaunched after the politics of privatization carried out during the 1990s by Carlos Menem administration virtually eliminated all.