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2024Session 79
Dominique Hasler

Mr. President, "The UN is a special meeting place for all countries." This is what our head of state said in his very first speech at the UN General Assembly wh...

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2023Session 78
Dominique Hasler

We gather this year under ever-more daunting challenges. Our window to address climate change is rapidly narrowing. Progress in achieving the Sustainable Develo...

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Lichtenstein

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2022Session 77
Dominique Hasler

We gather this year at a time of enormous challenges. Geopolitical conflicts, mass displacement, food insecurity and the effects of the pandemic continue to mak...

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Liechtenstein

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2021Session 76
Dominique Hasler

I congratulate the President on his election to the helm of the General Assembly, the most important policymaking body in the world. The future must be shaped b...

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Principality of Liechtenstein

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2020Session 75
Ms. Katrin Eggenberger

Mr. President It is an honor to address this Assembly today. We all wish we could be in New York now — and benefit from the unique opportunity that High-Level w...

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Principality of Liechtenstein

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2019Session 74
Serene Highness Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein

It is an honour to speak before the General Assembly today, in the year when Liechtenstein is celebrating its 300th anniversary. We are proud of and blessed to ...

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2018Session 73
Ms. Aurelia Frick

It is a great joy and personal satisfaction for me to see a woman presiding over the General Assembly. This is the tenth time that I have had the honour to spea...

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Liechtenstein

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2017Session 72
Ms. Aurelia Frick

Mr. President, it is good to see you presiding over this session of the General Assembly. We know that we are in very able hands, and I look forward to working ...

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Liechtenstein

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2016Session 71
Ms. Aurelia Frick

The migration and refugee crises are at the heart of our debate these days, both here and back home. People around the world are on the move in unprecedented nu...

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2015Session 70
Ms. Aurelia Frick

It is an honour to be back in the Assembly, especially as Liechtenstein is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of its membership in the United Nations. We ...

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2014Session 69
Aurelia Frick

This has been an enormously difficult year for the United Nations. As the Secretary-General has pointed out, we are living in an era of an unprecedented leve...

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2013Session 68
Aurelia Frick

At the outset, let me convey the sincere condolences of the people and the Government of Liechtenstein to all those affected by the abhorrent terrorist attac...

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2012Session 67
Aurelia Frick

We are convening in this Assembly at a time when we are witnessing a worrisome phenomenon, namely, senseless violence spreading through an entire region as a r...

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2011Session 66
Aurelia Frick

It is a great honour to again address this Assembly, especially at the first general debate ever opened by a woman. What an inspiration! This debate has alre...

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Liechtenstein

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2010Session 65
Aurelia Frick

It is a great honour for me to speak to the Assembly today, 20 years after the admission of Liechtenstein to the United Nations. Membership of the United Nat...

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Liechtenstein

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2009Session 64
Aurelia Frick

It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly, a body that represents the heart of multilateral diplomacy, for the first time tonight. As such,...

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2008Session 63
Rita Kieber-Beck

Since we gathered here a year ago, the world has experienced many serious challenges. Natural disasters, climate change, violent conflicts, terrorism, human ...

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2007Session 62
Rita Kieber-Beck

Climate change, at the centre of the high-level event a week ago, constitutes one of the greatest challenges of our generation. It puts to the test our abili...

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Liechtenstein

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2006Session 61
Mrs. Rita KIEBER-BECK

Madam President, let me first of all express my happiness at seeing you preside over the General Assembly. Your election sends a clear signal concerning the ...

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Liechtenstein

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2005Session 60
Rita Kieber-Beck

One week ago, the world summit sent a message of hope for peace, development and human rights for all, and took a number of steps towards institutional reform a...

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