AUSTRIA

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, When we met in this hall last year, many– including myself – referred to the challenging times we were ...

We are meeting in this Hall today at a time that is undeniably one of the most challenging in recent history. One look at the news, and we see the highest numbe...

When we met in this Hall last year, I was cautiously optimistic that the world would slowly but surely find its footing after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...

It is good to be back in New York. It is good to be back in this Hall. Flying here to attend the opening of a new session of the General Assembly once seemed li...

Mr. President! Excellencies! Ladies and Gentlemen, 75 years ago, the world cautiously rose from the horrors and the destruction of the Second World War. Humanit...

Never in the history of the world has humankind been more interconnected. Never in its history has humankind been better informed about events happening on the ...

I am present here in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria. I extend my greetings to the President and the Vice-President of the General Assemb...

The world has never felt more insecure, at least not in my lifetime. Three years ago, when I first spoke from this rostrum, I was concerned about three serious ...

I belong to a generation that was born into a globalized world. For us, globalization is not a threat — it is a fact of life. As Kofi Annan once said, arguing a...

Seventy years ago, the United Nations was founded as the collective answer to war and genocide, which had cost the lives of millions of people. The principal id...

It is with great respect that I stand at this rostrum for the first time as Austrian Foreign Minister. Many eminent world leaders have stood here before me a...

I thank the President for raising for discussion at this year’s general debate a very pertinent subject, namely, “The post-2015 development agenda: setting t...

The events of recent months have illustrated once again the importanceof the United Nations as a multilateral forum for addressing today’s crises and challenges...

This year has once again confirmed the importance of the United Nations as the truly indispensable multilateral forum for addressing today’s global problems....

The tragic earthquake in Haiti, the devastating floods in Pakistan and the financial crisis have reminded us that the global challenges of the twenty-first c...

This has been a truly remarkable week, remarkable for the leadership shown by the Secretary-General on climate change, the new policies of President Obama, w...

These days, on our television screens, images of thousands of parents concerned about the health of their babies and children remind us of what lies at the v...

Let me address at the outset a burning issue: the situation in Myanmar/Burma. We join the call of many, including our partners in the European Union and in t...

“United in diversity”: this motto of the European Union expresses what we, the 25 — and soon to be 27 — member States of the European Union, demand from ours...

We Austrians unfailingly keep the United Nations in high esteem. Let me try to explain why. Austria became a Member of the United Nations in December 1955. That...