Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste

Your Excellency the President of the United Nations General Assembly All protocol observed, It is an honour to address this Assembly once again on behalf...

We are a young, imperfect and vibrant democracy, an oasis of peace, tolerance and freedom. Since we gained independence in 2002. our democracy has evolved, aliv...

It is an honour to return to this Assembly of nations once again as President of my country, a position to which I was re-elected five months ago. I am consciou...

On behalf of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, I have the very great pleasure and privilege of reading out our national statement in Portuguese to the Gen...

Mr. President of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador Volkan Bozkir; Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Antonio Guterres; Excellencies, I g...

At the outset, allow me on behalf of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to preside over the General As...

I have the honour to address the General Assembly at its seventy-third session on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Dionísio da Costa Babo Soares, Minister for Fo...

I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Francisco Guterres Lu-Olo, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. “At ...

I would like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy- first session, and by wishing you the gr...

It is with the utmost pleasure that I address the Organization today. It is a privilege for me to take the floor for the first time in the General Assembly, par...

In September 2000, before becoming an independent country and while under the administration of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor,...

Allow me to begin by conveying my vigorous condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks in Kenya, Pakistan and Iraq, which killed scores of innocent people. ...

It is a great pleasure for me to address this great General Assembly for the second year in a row. Last September, I tried to convey to the Assembly a message ...

It is a great pleasure for me to be back at the United Nations Headquarters. Last February I had the honour of taking part in a Security Council meeting, whe...

I have been given such a bad spot on the speaking list that I feel as if I am in a Fellini movie, speaking to an empty Hall. Still, because I believe in ghos...

Let me start by expressing my sincere congratulations to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his assumption to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly ...

First of all, I would like to congratulate Mr. d’Escoto Brockmann on his well-deserved election to preside over the sixty-third session of the General Assemb...

As I address this body, may I seize this opportunity to extend to Mr. Kerim my sincere and warm congratulations on his well-deserved election to preside over...

On behalf of President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta and on behalf of the people of Timor-Leste, allow me to congratulate you, Madam, on ...

Because of the constraints on our time, I shall omit several paragraphs of my statement, the full text of which has been distributed to delegations. The Preside...