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2024Session 79
Keir Starmer

Mr 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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2023Session 78
Oliver Dowden

As 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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2022Session 77
Elizabeth Truss

At 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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2021Session 76
Boris Johnson

I 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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2020Session 75
Mr. Boris Johnson

Never 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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2019Session 74
Mr. Boris Johnson

It 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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2018Session 73
Mrs. Theresa May

On 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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2017Session 72
Mrs. Theresa May

I 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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2016Session 71
Mrs. Theresa May

It 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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2015Session 70
Mr. Philip Hammond

Nearly 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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2014Session 69
David Cameron

This 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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2013Session 68
Nicholas Clegg

In 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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2012Session 67
David Cameron

I 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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2011Session 66
David Cameron

It 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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2010Session 65
Nicholas Clegg

The 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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2009Session 64
Gordon Brown

I 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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2008Session 63
Gordon Brown

It 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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2007Session 62
David Miliband

It 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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2006Session 61
Mrs. Margaret Beckett

First, 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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2005Session 60
Jack Straw

Let 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...

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