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2004
Session 59
Mr. Jan PETERSEN

When we met here in the General Assembly last year, it was against the backdrop of the terrible and devastating attack on the United Nations headquarters in Bag...

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2003
Session 58
Jan Petersen

The brutal attacks on the United Nations Mission in Baghdad are beyond comprehension. I condemn them in the strongest possible terms. The perpetrators of such ...

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2002
Session 57
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Yesterday we stood united in remembrance of all those who lost their lives a year ago. The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were an attack on us all. We,...

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2001
Session 56
Jan Petersen

First, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly. For more than half a century, the United Nations ha...

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2000
Session 55
Thorbjorn Jagland

First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of your important position. I would also like to welcome Tuvalu as a new Memb...

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1999
Session 54
Kjell Magne Bondevik

The tragedy in East Timor shows us again that when war and violence erupt the world community turns to the United Nations for the resolution of conflicts and th...

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1998
Session 53
Knut Vollebek

This year we are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In our global community, the issue of human rights is the co...

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1997
Session 52
Bjørn Tore Godal

First, I join other speakers in congratulating my Ukrainian colleague upon his election to his high office. Last week in Oslo, almost 100 countries agreed to a...

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1996
Session 51
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Tomorrow, I am going to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on behalf of Norway. We join with almost all countries in celebrating our new freedom — ...

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1995
Session 50
Mr. Godal

I wish first of all to congratulate the President of the General Assembly upon his election to his high office in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Un...

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1994
Session 49
Mr. Bjørn Tore Godal

It is an honour for me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to your high office. As the United Nations approaches its fiftieth anniversary, its ...

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1993
Session 48
MRS. GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND

It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Ambassador Insanally on his election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. I should also like to w...

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1992
Session 47
Mrs. BRUNDTLAND

It is a great pleasure for me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to your high office at such an important juncture in the history of the United Nation...

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1991
Session 46
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND

It is indeed a pleasure to congratulate you, Mr. President, upon your election to this high office at a time of such great achievement and promise for the Unit...

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1990
Session 45
JAM SYSE

It is indeed a pleasure to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to your high office at such an important period in the history of the Organization...

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1989
Session 44
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND

It is a great pleasure, Mr. President, to congratulate you upon your election as President of this session of the General Assembly. I feel confident that you w...

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1988
Session 43
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND

On behalf of Norway I add my congratulations to those of the speakers who have preceded me, Sir, on your election as President of the forty-third session of th...

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1987
Session 42
STOLTENBERG

 I should like first to congratulate Ambassador Florin on his election as President of the General Assembly. I am confident that with his experience he will gu...

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1986
Session 41
Mrs. BRUNDTLAND

Sir, allow me first of all to congratulate you upon your election to the high office of President of the forty-first session of the General Assembly. I am convi...

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1985
Session 40
Mr. Stray

Let me begin by expressing the deep sympathy we all feel with the people of Mexico following the serious earthquakes that struck their country and their capital...

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