Speeches by Secretary of State

It is with genuine feeling that I return to this podium where I first came when I addressed the eleventh session of the General Assembly as Minister of Foreign ...

Hopes for the success of the United Nations were running very high in the closing days of the first session of the General Assembly. Few of us, if any, left thi...

In view of the very lengthy agenda that has been presented to us, several items of which are undoubtedly of grave and pressing international importance calling ...

61. The agenda of the thirteenth session of the General Assembly includes problems of great importance to international relations. It reflects the Interest of m...

Mr. Amerasinghe's election comes at a time when the international community has begun to accept the idea that the struggle of man for his rights is nothing more...

At a time when Paris is celebrating the bi-millenary of its foundation, fate has ordained that the United Nations should hold its sixth session in this bright a...

The era inaugurated by the creation of the United Nations has been one of critical tension in international relations. The atmosphere of uncertainty and insecur...

20. Many of the representatives who have spoken before me have rightly observed that the present session of the General Assembly should play an important part i...

Before beginning my remarks, I should like to refer briefly to an event which must have given satisfaction to all the representatives here. I am referring to th...

Mr. MANUILSKY said that if the General Assembly had been impatiently awaiting the speech of the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, it was not because Mr. ...

The eyes of the world are focused upon us today, the result of the many grave problems with which we are dealing and of the unhappiness and instability the worl...

I should like to take this opportunity to extend greetings to the General Assembly at its ninth session and to wish it every success in its important and respon...

I should like to begin my presentation by congratulating Mr. Razali Ismail on his election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. It bears ...

113. Any comprehensive evaluation of the general debate in our General Assembly so far, and particularly the statements on the international, situation made in ...

A year ago, when the fourth session of the General Assembly met, there was an atmosphere of optimism and determination to accomplish the work before us. The Pre...

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Costa Rica I should like to join the many speakers who have congratulated you on your election as President of thi...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to see you presiding over this new session of the General Assembly after your long struggle to gain freedom, along wit...

I would like to begin by congratulating the President on his unanimous election to preside over the fifty-second session of the General Assembly of the United ...

Mr. President, I have the distinct honour and privilege on behalf of my delegation to extend to you, Sir, our warmest congratulations upon your election as Pre...

1. The General Assembly convenes in this eighth session to meet the complexity of world problems, many of which are old acquaintances. The Assembly’s agenda thi...