Greece

78 speeches

Greece

GRC
2024Session 79
Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Monsieur Le President, heads of Government and State, ladies and gentlemen, This is the sixth occasion on which I have addressed the United Nations General ...

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Greece

GRC
2023Session 78
Kyriakos Mitsotakis

The theme of this year’s General Assembly asks us to accelerate action towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all. I would argue that it is ...

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Greece

GRC
2022Session 77
Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Seventy-seven years ago, the Organization was founded out of the chaos of war with one stated aim: the harmonization of relations among nation States in pursuit...

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Greece

GRC
2021Session 76
Kyriakos Mitsotakis

For nearly two years, the world has been grappling with one of the greatest challenges we have faced in modern times. The impact of the coronavirus disease (COV...

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Hellenic Republic

GRC
2020Session 75
Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Secretary-General Guterres, fellow delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry that circumstance dictates that we cannot be together for this, the 75th annivers...

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Hellenic Republic

GRC
2019Session 74
Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Allow me first to congratulate Ambassador Muhammad-Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. It is a great pleas...

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Greece

GRC
2018Session 73
Mr. Alexis Tsipras

Three years ago, when I first had the honour of addressing the General Assembly in a plenary meeting (see A/70/ PV.22), I emphasized that Greece was at the for...

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Greece

GRC
2017Session 72
Mr. Nikos Kotzias

First of all, I would like to wish every success to the new Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres, and reaffirm our full support for his work. Allow me also to congra...

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Greece

GRC
2016Session 71
Mr. Alexis Tsipras

In 2015, we celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco by reflecting on the challenges facing us...

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Greece

GRC
2015Session 70
Mr. Alexis Tsipras

Seventy years have passed since the United Nations was founded, after the most disastrous war in history. In the wake of that war, the noble declarations of the...

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Greece

GRC
2014Session 69
Evangelos Venizelos

This sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly is taking place in a global context full of challenges, testing the efficiency of the current international s...

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Greece

GRC
2013Session 68
Evangelos Venizelos

I congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I convey my deep gratitude and appreciation to...

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Greece

GRC
2012Session 67
Dimitris Avramopoulos

I would like to thank the outgoing President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session, Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of the State of Qatar, a...

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Greece

GRC
2011Session 66
Stavros Lambrinidis

I should like to thank the outgoing President of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, Mr. Joseph Deiss of Switzerland, and congratulate Mr. Nassi...

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Greece

GRC
2010Session 65
Dimitris Droutsas

I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki of Libya, for his tireless efforts in takin...

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Greece

GRC
2009Session 64
Anastassis Mitsialis

On behalf of Her Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Ms. Dora Bakoyannis, who unfortunately could not be in New York today,...

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Greece

GRC
2008Session 63
Dora Bakoyannis

Sophocles said that all mankind is subject to error. We are gathered here in this Assembly in order to limit the scope of those errors and to ensure respect f...

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Greece

GRC
2007Session 62
Yannis Valinakis

The great challenges and problems, both global and regional, call for urgent and coherent responses. The responsibilities and the role of the United Nations ...

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Greece

GRC
2006Session 61
Mrs. Dora BAKOYANNIS

Allow me, Madam, to add my heartiest congratulations to you on being the third woman in the history of the United Nations to be elected President of the Gene...

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Greece

GRC
2005Session 60
Petros Molyviatis

Let me begin, Mr. President, by congratulating you upon your election as President of the General Assembly and assure you of my country’s unwavering support for...

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