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2024Session 79
Joseph R. Biden

My fellow leaders, today is the fourth time I’ve had the great honor of speaking to this assembly as president of the United States. It will be my last. I’ve s...

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2023Session 78
Joseph R. Biden

About one week ago. I stood on the other side of the world in Viet Nam. on soil once bloody with war. I met a small group of veterans — Americans and Vietnamese...

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2022Session 77
Joseph R. Biden, Jr

In the past year, our world experienced great upheaval: a growing crisis in food insecurity; record heat, floods and droughts; the coronavirus disease (COVID-19...

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2021Session 76
Joe Biden

It is my honour to speak to the General Assembly for the first time as President of the United States. We meet this year in a moment of great pain intermingled ...

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2020Session 75
Mr. Donald Trump

It is my profound honor to address the United Nations General Assembly. 75 years after the end of World War Two and the founding of the United Nations, we are o...

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2019Session 74
Mr. Donald Trump

Seven decades of history have passed through this Hall in all of their richness and drama. From where I stand, the world has heard from presidents and premiers,...

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2018Session 73
Mr. Donald Trump

One year ago, I stood before the Assembly for the first time in this Hall (see A/72/ PV.3). I addressed the threats facing our world, and I presented a visi...

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2017Session 72
Mr. Donald Trump

I welcome everyone to New York. It is a profound honour to stand here in my home city as a representative of the American people to address the people of the wo...

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2016Session 71
Mr. Barack Obama

As I address the General Assembly in this Hall as President for the final time, let me recount the progress that we have made these last eight years. From the d...

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2015Session 70
Barack Obama

Seventy years after the founding of the United Nations it is worth reflecting on what the members of this body, working together, have helped to achieve. Out of...

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2014Session 69
Barack Obama

We come together at a crossroads between war and peace, between disorder and integration, between fear and hope. Around the globe, there are signposts of pro...

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2013Session 68
Barack Obama

Each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution. For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whim...

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2012Session 67
Barack Obama

I would like to begin today by telling the Assembly about an American named Chris Stevens. Chris was born in a town called Grass Valley, California, the son of...

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2011Session 66
Barack Obama

It is a great honour for me to be here today. I would like to talk to the General Assembly about a subject that is at the heart of the United Nations — the p...

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2010Session 65
Barack Obama

It is a great honour to address this Assembly for the second time, nearly two years after my election as President of the United States. We know this is no o...

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2009Session 64
Barack Obama

It is my honour to address the Assembly for the first time as the forty-fourth President of the United States. I come before you humbled by the responsibilit...

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2008Session 63
George W. Bush

I am pleased to be here to address the General Assembly. Sixty-three years ago, representatives from around the world gathered in San Francisco to complete t...

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2007Session 62
George W. Bush

Thank you for the opportunity to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. Sixty years ago, representatives from 16 nations gathered to begin del...

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2006Session 61
Mr. George W. Bush

I am grateful for the privilege of speaking to the General Assembly. Last week, America and the world marked the fifth anniversary of the attacks that fille...

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2005Session 60
Condoleezza Rice

On behalf of President Bush and all of the American people, welcome to New York City. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, my fellow citizens have experience...

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