South Africa

President of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Philemon Yang, United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, Excellencies Heads of St...

Seventy-eight years ago. in the aftermath of the Second World War. the nations of the world made a solemn commitment to saving future generations from the horro...

Allow me to join all speakers before me in congratulating the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session on his election and in wishing hi...

President of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, Mr Abdulla Shahid, Secretary General, Mr Antonio Guterres, Excellencies Heads of State and Government,...

President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, seventy-five years ago, the United Nations was established to introduc...

I stand here deeply moved at the coincidence that I should speak following my counterpart, the Foreign Minister of Botswana, given that my grandfather, Z. K. Ma...

I have the honour to address the General Assembly for the first time as President of the Republic of South Africa. It is nearly a quarter of a century since the...

I take this opportunity to express South Africa’s solidarity with the fraternal Governments and the peoples of the Caribbean following waves of devastating hurr...

I wish to congratulate the President on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. I assure him of South Africa’s continued...

I should like to congratulate the President and his country, Denmark, on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. He has Sou...

I should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your country, Uganda, on assuming, on behalf of the continent of Africa, the responsibilities of Presid...

It is an honour and a privilege for me to once again address this body. South Africa attaches the utmost importance to the General Assembly as the most repre...

I thank you, sir, for the opportunity to address the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh general debate. Let me start by congratulating Mr. Vuk Jeremić and t...

On behalf of the Government and the people of South Africa, I wish to extend our sincere congratulations to Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his elec...

My delegation joins previous speakers in expressing our congratulations to Mr. Joseph Deiss on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty...

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the adoption, in 1989, of General Assembly resolution 44/27 A, on international solidarity with the liberation s...

My delegation and I join in expressing our congratulations to you, Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, on your election as President of the General Assembly at...

Let me begin by adding my voice to the many salutations directed to Mr. Ban Ki-moon on being elected as the Secretary-General of the United Nations. I wish h...

Once again, we have convened at this seat of the Organization of the peoples of the world, representing the whole of humanity and coming from all corners of ...

First, I would like to salute Mr. Jean Ping, the outgoing President of the General Assembly, for the work he did to guide the General Assembly as the nations of...