The United States of America

First of all, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. Lusaka, on your election as President of the General Assembly. I wish you every success in carrying out the respo...

1. Thank you for granting me the honor of speaking today, on this first day of the general debate at the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Once ag...

I begin by paying a tribute to the new Secretary-General, who has brought great distinction to the office during his brief tenure. Dag Hammarskjold once told...

The United Nations, this parliament of man, offers us a unique opportunity to examine the human condition. We are each called upon to declare our national purpo...

Mr. President, I congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. It is a recognition of your extraordinary diplomatic skills, but,...

We meet in this General Assembly on the threshold of a new decade. It will be a time of complex challenge, a period in which, more than ever, co-operative ende...

103. Mr. President, I congratulate you on your election to this important office. 104. We all learned this morning with shock and sadness of the sudden death o...

1. Mr. President, I wish to offer you my congratulations on your election as President of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly. It gives my own G...

Let me first congratulate this body for electing Ambassador Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka to preside over this thirty-first session of the General Assembly. He is a ...

At the outset, let me say how pleased we are that our deliberations this year take place under the presidency of the Prime Minister of Luxembourg. His contribut...

Last year, at the previous session [.2124th meeting], in my first address as Secretary of State, I spoke to this Assembly about American purposes. I said that t...

35. I should like to add my congratulations to those so well expressed by the Minister for External Relations of Brazil to our new President, Ambassador Benite...

During the past few years the world has made remarkable advances toward the Charter goal of practicing tolerance and living together in peace with one another a...

Mr. President, I should like first of all to associate myself with the previous speakers who have congratulated you on your election to the high office of Pres...

1. It is my privilege to extend to you once again the warm congratulations of the United States delegation on your election to the Presidency of the twenty-fif...

43. Madam President, Mr. Secretary-General, distinguished Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers and representatives — my fellow citizens of the world community....

19. It is my honour and pleasure to convey to my fellow representatives the cordial greetings of the President of the United States, and his best wishes for th...

29. Mr. President, today, as every year at this time, we open a new chapter in the history of the United Nations. We open on a hopeful note with your election a...

27. As the General Assembly convenes in this twenty-first year of the United Nations, we of the United States of America are aware, as indeed every delegation m...

34. We meet this morning in a mood of accomplishment and gratification. Just twenty-four hours ago a great milestone in the life of the United Nations was passe...