Eastern Republic of Uruguay

76 speeches

Uruguay

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2024Session 79
Luis Lacalle Pou

A very good afternoon, everyone. I would like to greet everyone here, all delegations. Today is my last speech here as President to this Assembly, and I would l...

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Uruguay

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2023Session 78
Luis Lacalle Pou

I greet the President of the General Assembly, as well as the Secretary-General, the Heads of State and Government, the official delegations and the Organizatio...

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2022Session 77
Francisco Bustillo

Exactly two years ago, during the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, we were in the first year of the pandemic. It was a year...

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2021Session 76
Luis Lacalle Pou

Almost two years ago now, the world changed completely, affecting every nation all over the world — rich, poor, big, small, developed and non-developed. There w...

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Eastern Republic of Uruguay

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2020Session 75
Mr. Luis Lacalle Pou

President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Volkan Bozkir, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, Heads of State and Government, National ...

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Uruguay

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2019Session 74
Mr. Rodolfo Nin Novoa

At the outset, I would like to extend to Her Excellency Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, President of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, a we...

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Uruguay

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2018Session 73
Mr. Tabaré Vásquez

I bring greetings from the people of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, a country in the Southern cone of the Americas that is small but nonetheless has stron...

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Uruguay

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2017Session 72
Mr. Rodolfo Nin Novoa

As we greet all delegations, we also welcome the holding of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly. Uruguay is convinced that today more than ever w...

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2016Session 71
Mr. Tabare Vazquez

As a citizen and the President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, it is an honour for me to speak to the General Assembly again from this rostrum. In this foru...

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2015Session 70
Mr. Tabaré Vázquez

I bring to this forum, the largest and most representative of today’s world, the greetings of the people and the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay —...

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2014Session 69
Luis Almagro

Ours is a harsh and difficult world — a complex, sometimes disgraceful world where 6 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, many from pro...

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2013Session 68
José Mujica

I come from the South. At the conjunction of the Atlantic and the River Plate, my country is a gentle, temperate plain where livestock graze. Its history is ...

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2012Session 67
Luis Almagro

On behalf of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, I would like to congratulate my friend Ambassador Vuk Jeremić on his election to preside over the work of the Gen...

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2011Session 66
Danilo Astori

I come to speak before the Assembly representing a country that is celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the endeavour that led to its birth as an ind...

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2010Session 65
Luis Almagro

Our goals at the national level are goals we also want to see achieved in the international community. They are goals that the international community must t...

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2009Session 64
Tabare Vazquez

As I did four years ago (see A/60/PV.6), I once again extend the greetings of the people and the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to this forum,...

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2008Session 63
Gonzalo Fernandez

Uruguay, one of the founding States of the United Nations, sees the fundamental principles of its foreign policy fully reflected in the Charter of this Organ...

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2007Session 62
Reinaldo Gargano

I wish to congratulate Mr. Srgjan Kerim on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- second session. On behalf of my country, Ur...

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Uruguay

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2006Session 61
Mrs. Belela HERERRA

Madam President, I bring to you the greeting of the people and Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to this Assembly. This Assembly is the broadest ...

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Uruguay

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2005Session 60
Tabaré Vázquez

I would like to extend the sincerest condolences of the people and Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, as well as...

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