Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

**Colleagues,** It is an honour to stand before you once again and to speak about the state of the world as we see it. I have listened to many speeches, and w...

Our debate is being held under the theme of restoring trust and reviving global solidarity. President Dennis Francis has rightly called on us to accelerate acti...

First of all, I would like to endorse what my colleague Mr. Charles Michel just said on behalf of the European Union, since I come from a generation that has ne...

I must say that it is with emotion that I am speaking to the General Assembly today. I still recall that last year we talked to each other through a screen, wit...

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear friends, We will remember this year — 2020. What a year! We cannot meet as we usually do in the Hall, which, once a ye...

I would like to begin on a personal note by thanking the previous speaker, Charles Michel, who will be stepping down from the Belgian Government in a few months...

Yesterday, our Secretary-General provided his view of the international situation and the challenges that we all face (see A/73/PV.6). His view was a mixed one...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Minister Miroslav Lajčák, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session....

May I first of all congratulate Mr. Thompson on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy- first session. I wish also to take this...

The United Nations was created, not to lead humankind to heaven but to save it from hell. These were the apt words of Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, who served as the se...

It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly for the first time, and I must say that I do so with great emotion. Commitment, solidarity and r...

The President of the General Assembly has chosen for this session and this general debate the theme “The post- 2015 development agenda: setting the stage”. He ...

On behalf of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, let me congratulate President Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly. He can count on the ful...

Luxembourg is very pleased that the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, was able for the first time to address this Assembly on behalf of th...

The values upon which the Organization was founded, 65 years ago, are still appropriate for overcoming the global challenges we face today. Whether in fightin...

I believe it is fair to say that we have just come through an annus horribilis: a year marked by the worldwide financial and economic crisis, the worst sinc...

“[We] will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human righ...

Year after year the international community meets in New York in September to debate the major issues of concern to humankind. This traditional encounter is o...

Two years ago, at this same rostrum, as the conclusion of my statement (see A/59/PV.10), I quoted these famous verses of the Spanish poet Antonio Machado: ...

Just a few days ago, in this same Hall, the follow-up High-level Meeting was held on the Millennium, bringing together an unprecedented number of high political...