Costa Rica

72 speeches

Costa Rica

CRI
2024Session 79
Arnoldo Ricardo André Tinoco

Mr. President, Excellencies, Costa Rica congratulates you on your election to lead this General Assembly and reaffirms its commitment to advancing toward ...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2023Session 78
Arnoldo Ricardo Andre Tinoco

Costa Rica congratulates the President of the General Assembly on his election and reiterates its commitment to work to achieve the goals we have set for this s...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2022Session 77
Arnoldo Andre-Tinoco

Costa Rica congratulates the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session on his election. We are confident that his extensive political exp...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2021Session 76
Carlos Alvarado Quesada

We will only be strong and prosperous when the world’s most vulnerable are too. That concept is not a romanticized vision of multilateralism. It is a reality we...

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Republic of Costa Rica

CRI
2020Session 75
Mr. Carlos Alvarado Quesada

Mr. President: Costa Rica congratulates you on your election as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations at its seventy-fifth session. We reitera...

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Republic of Costa Rica

CRI
2019Session 74
Mr. Carlos Alvarado Quesada

In Germany, there was once a mayor of Cologne — at 41, he was a young leader for his times — who held the view that peace in Europe depended on the relations be...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2018Session 73
Ms. Epsy Campbell Barr

I am very grateful to be able to address the Assembly as a female Chancellor and Vice-President of the Republic of Costa Rica. I extend to the Assembly and the ...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2017Session 72
Mr. Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

Costa Rica congratulates the President on his election and welcomes the priorities that he has established for his tenure. I would like to reiterate my country’...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2016Session 71
Mr. Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

Costa Rica congratulates Mr. Thomson on his election as leader of the General Assembly and welcomes the priorities that he has set for his term of office. The P...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2015Session 70
Mr. Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

Costa Rica would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. I reiterate my country’s commit...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2014Session 69
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

I congratulate His Excellency Mr. Sam Kutesa, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda, on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. We wi...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2013Session 68
Laura Chinchilla Miranda

It is a pleasure to begin this address with warm congratulations to Ambassador John Ashe on his recent election as President of the General Assembly. We wish ...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2012Session 67
Enrique Castillo

I will begin my remarks by congratulating Mr. Vuk Jeremić, President of the General Assembly, on his election. My country offers its support to him as he fulfi...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2011Session 66
Laura Chinchilla Miranda

It gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by warmly congratulating Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his re-election to the post in which he has carrie...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2010Session 65
Laura Chinchilla Miranda

From this universal podium I convey a warm greeting to the Assembly and the whole of humanity. I especially commend my fellow Costa Rican citizens for their ...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2009Session 64
Oscar Arias Sanchez

Let me begin by sending a warm greeting to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the Assembly, on behalf of a country 35 times smaller than his native Liby...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2008Session 63
Oscar Arias Sanchez

I received the news of your election to the General Assembly presidency, Sir, with a brother’s pride. Twenty-one years ago, it was through war in Central Am...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2007Session 62
Bruno Stagno Ugarte

The 192 Member States gathered here have not yet taken the qualitative leap called for by Woodrow Wilson in 1918 for our international order not to be based ...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2006Session 61
Mr. Oscar Arias Sanchez

On behalf of the people of Costa Rica, I convey my greetings to the President of the General Assembly and wish her every success. I also greet the Secretary-...

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Costa Rica

CRI
2005Session 60
Marco Vinicio Vargas

Allow me at the outset to congratulate the President on his well-deserved election to preside over the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. The session tha...

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