The United States of America

Thank you for the honour of addressing the General Assembly. The American people respect the idealism that gave life to this Organization. And we respect the me...

Twenty-four months ago, and yesterday in the memory of America, the centre of New York City became a battlefield, and a graveyard, and the symbol of an unfinis...

We meet one year and one day after a terrorist attack brought grief to my country and brought grief to many citizens of our world. Yesterday, we remembered the...

We meet in a Hall devoted to peace; in a city scarred by violence; in a nation awakened to danger; in a world uniting for a long struggle. Every civilized nati...

I am honoured to address the Assembly on behalf of the United States and to reinforce the eloquent message President C1inton conveyed during last week's Millenn...

Today, we look ahead to the new millennium. And at this last General Assembly of the twentieth century, we look back on a century that taught us much of what we...

Let me begin by thanking the Assembly for its very kind and generous welcome and by noting that, at the opening of this fifty-third session of the General Assem...

Five years ago, when I first addressed this Assembly, the cold war had only just ended and the transition to a new era was beginning. Now, together, we are mak...

Three years ago I had the honour of being the first American President born after the founding of the United Nations to address the General Assembly. In its fi...

It is a privilege to speak to the General Assembly today on behalf of the United States. A half-century ago the General Assembly first met here in New York, acr...

Let me first congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election as President of the General Assembly for its forty-ninth session. The American people look forwar...

Let me first congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly for this session. Mr. Secretary-General, distinguished representatives...

Forty-seven years ago I was a young man of 21, and, like thousands of others of my generation, I had gone off to war to help keep freedom alive. Forty-seven y...

I am honoured to speak with you as you open the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly. I should first like to congratulate the outgoing President, Guido ...

 It is really a great privilege to greet you today as we begin what marks a new and historic session of the General Assembly. My congratulations to the Honoura...

I am honoured to address the General Assembly today at the beginning of its forty-fourth session. I should like to congratulate Joseph Garba of Nigeria, a dist...

 Half a world away from this place of peace, the firing, the killing, the bloodshed in two merciless conflicts have for the first time in recent memory diminis...

Let me first welcome the Secretary-General back from his pilgrimage for peace in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands have already fallen in the bloody confl...

A short walk from this Hall is the delegates' Meditation Room, a refuge from a world deafened by the noise of strife and violence. "We want to bring back the id...

Let me start by joining the President of Brazil in conveying to the people and Government of Mexico our deep sympathy over the devastation wrought by earthquake...