Republic of Rwanda

Your Excellency Philemon Yang, President of the 79th General Assembly. Your Excellency Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations; Excellencie...

This year the World Health Organization declared that the coronavirus disease pandemic is no longer a global health emergency. Recovery is well under way. Unfor...

The Secretary-General’s landmark report Our Common Agenda (A/75/982) has only increased in value since it was launched a year ago. The world is in a state of tu...

• Excellency, Abdulla Shahid, President of the General Assembly • Excellency, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres • Excellencies, Heads of State and Government •...

• Excellency, Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly • Excellency, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations • Excellencies, Heads of ...

The international community stands at a crossroads. The decade starting in 2020 will either be remembered in history as a turning point or as the moment when mu...

As we gather in this Hall and work together to make the United Nations more relevant to all people, the positive developments in Africa over the past year merit...

Every year, the United Nations channels billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance. It also sets the global agenda on key policy issues from development to ...

During the past year, the international community concluded landmark agreements on sustainable development and climate change and renewed its commitment to work...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (resolution 70/1) marks a new era in international cooperation. Ending extreme poverty was never going to be e...

I want to start by congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly. We are living through a period of unprecedented progress ...

Thirteen years ago, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established humanitarian principles for the twenty-first century. Together, Member States and int...

It is timely that we are meeting here over the next few days to seek ways and means to prevent and generally manage conflicts. While it may seem that conflict ...

As the world continues to deal with crises, including conflicts across the globe, we need to examine the role of mediation in the peaceful settlement of disp...

At this sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, it is right that we re-examine the role of the United Nations in global governance, as we strive to help...

This session of the General Assembly offers further opportunity to reflect on how best to reconcile what at times mistakenly appears to be irreconcilable: so...

We are gathered here once again to reflect on major national, regional and global challenges — and on how together, as the United Nations, we can renew our c...

May I start by expressing to you, Mr. President, my Government’s congratulations on your election as the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-secon...

I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, at this sixty-first session of the ...

Allow me to begin by congratulating the President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, Mr. Jean Ping of Gabon, and all Member States on the succe...