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GBRMr President, Your Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, I address the General Assembly today… As someone with a deep belief in the principles of this body....
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GBRAs we meet here this evening, millions of people in Morocco and Libya continue to struggle with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and catastrophic flood...
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GBRAt the time of its foundation, the United Nations was a beacon of promise. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the building we are in symbolized the end o...
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GBRI thank the members — the faithful few — who waited until the end of today’s very important meeting. It is very good to see my audience. An inspection of the fo...
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GBRNever in the history of our species — not since the almighty felled the tower of babel — has the human race been so obsessed with one single topic of conversati...
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GBRIt is customary for the British Prime Minister to come to the United Nations and pledge to advance our values and defend our rules, the rules of a peaceful worl...
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GBROn behalf of the United Kingdom, let me begin by paying tribute to an outstanding leader of the United Nations, who, sadly, passed away this summer. Kofi Annan ...
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GBRI would like to begin by expressing my sincere condolences to the Government and the people of Mexico following the devastating earthquake. I also want to reite...
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GBRIt is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly for the first time and to do so as Prime Minister of a country that has always been a proud and proa...
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GBRNearly 70 years ago, the first meetings of the General Assembly and the Security Council took place in London. They marked the point when the world came togethe...
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GBRThis year we face extraordinary tests of our values and our resolve. In responding to the aggression against one of our Member States, Ukraine; in seeking pe...
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GBRIn my lifetime, the world has been sliced up and labelled in many different ways: East and West; communism and capitalism; North and South; Christian and Mus...
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GBRI am proud that this year Britain welcomed the world to the Olympic and Paralympic games and put on a great display, showing that while we may have only the tw...
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GBRIt is an honour to address the General Assembly for the first time, and it is a particular honour to do so as such momentous events unfold in the Arab world....
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GBRThe nations represented here know how deeply the world has changed in the six and a half decades since the United Nations was formed; since the spirit of int...
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GBRI stand here to reaffirm the Charter of the United Nations, not to tear it up. I call on every nation to support its universal principles. A year ago, we ...
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GBRIt is humbling to stand before this great Assembly today. Events of recent weeks have proved beyond doubt that we are now in a new global age. Living through...
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GBRIt is a great honour to make my first speech to the General Assembly. The United Nations has a duty to lead the world in addressing the shared threats and ...
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GBRFirst, I would like to pay tribute to the work of the Secretary-General. A former British Minister once said of the NATO Secretary General that he should be ...
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GBRLet me begin, Sir, by paying tribute to your predecessor, Jean Ping, for his extraordinary work — above all on the world summit, but also throughout his year as...