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2024Session 79
Peter Pellegrini

Mr President of the General Assembly, Mr Secretary General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and privilege to address you from this place...

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2023Session 78
Zuzana Caputova

In the General Assembly and other global forums we hear many words spoken about the challenges we face, from the growing intensity of armed conflicts to the dev...

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2022Session 77
Zuzana Caputova

The Organization has a clear purpose, as spelled out in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations, to maintain international peace and security, to develop...

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2021Session 76
Zuzana Čaputová

Dear Mr. President of the General Assembly, Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Dear colleagues, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, That at least, some of you can meet...

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2020Session 75
Ms. Zuzana Caputova

Mr. President of the General Assembly, Mr. Secretary General, Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our unusual gathering today proves that the ongoing COVID-19 pa...

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2019Session 74
Ms. Zuzana Čaputová

All the achievements of the United Nations have one thing in common — respect for rules and principles. As much as we need those principles today, we also need ...

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2018Session 73
Mr. Andrej Kiska

It takes decades to build peace and trust, but it only takes seconds, one selfish or narrow-minded decision, to break them. We gather here every year to enhance...

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2017Session 72
Mr. Andrej Kiska

First, allow me to extend my congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency. I am convinced that under your leadership the General ...

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2016Session 71
Mr. Andrej Kiska

Many world leaders care more about retaining power than improving the lives of their people. Those words of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were recently addresse...

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2015Session 70
Mr. Miroslav Lajčák

During the past 70 years we, the States Members of the United Nations, have been driven by the noble ideals and aspirations that the visionary founders of the U...

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2014Session 69
Andrej Kiska

At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session and to wish you every succ...

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2013Session 68
Ivan Gasparovic

To address the General Assembly on behalf of Slovak citizens is a great responsibility. It is a great responsibility for all of us who have been entrusted wi...

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2012Session 67
Ivan Gašparovič

At the outset, I wish to convey thanks and appreciation to the Secretary- General for his true commitment to the fulfilment of the purposes and principles of t...

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2011Session 66
Iveta Radicova

It is a distinct honour and pleasure for me to address the General Assembly at the outset of its sixty-sixth session. This forum provides us with an unparall...

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2010Session 65
Ivan Gasparovic

Let me congratulate Mr. Joseph Deiss on his election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. May the United Nations, under his leade...

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2009Session 64
Miroslav Lajcak

It is a great privilege and honour for me to address the General Assembly, to which people of the world look with high hopes and expectations to find effecti...

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2008Session 63
Jan Kubis

The international community is increasingly confronted with old problems coupled with a new set of challenges of a truly global nature. And as Secretary-Gene...

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2007Session 62
Ivan Gašparovič

Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. I believe that, under your presidency, ...

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2006Session 61
Mr. Robert FICO

I would like to express my deepest appreciation and most sincere gratitude to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, for the invaluable work a...

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2005Session 60
Ivan Gašparovič

At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session. I am confident that your e...

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