Pope Francis

a as a symbol of peace in a troubled world when he visited Mongolia last year. I am also delighted to note that, during his recent visit to Mongolia. Pope Francis stated that. “a profound spiritual sensitivity belongs to the very fibre of your cultural identity, and it is proper that Mongolia should be a symbol

ernational community. Furthermore, all interested parties must also demonstrate a unified will to strive for an end to violence and work to reach, as Pope Francis stated, a solution that can enable Palestinians and Israelis alike to live at last in peace within clearly established and internationally recognized

. President, I am honoured to extend to you and to the distinguished representatives of the Nations assembled here the warm greetings of His Holiness Pope Francis, while also congratulating Your Excellency on your election as President of this esteemed Assembly. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the H

actions to avoid further victims and damage. We support the peace initiatives promoted by Brazil, a brother country and strategic ally, as well as by Pope Francis, whose moving presence is a source of inspiration to all humankind. There is no doubt that we need to work on the review and reform of the mechanisms

I am pleased to extend to you. Sir. and to the representatives of nations gathered here the warm greetings of Pope Francis, while also congratulating Mr. Dennis Francis on his election as President of the Assembly. The Holy See wishes to commend him on the topic for this

others reaching out towards us”. This spring in Budapest, in our nation’s main square, which is named after Lajos Kossuth, whom I mentioned earlier. Pope Francis prayed in the presence of tens of thousands of people with the following words. “Instil into the hearts of peoples and their leaders the desire to bu

es concerned and the delegations of India and the Holy See, since President Lopez Obrador believes that His Excellency Narendra Modi and His Holiness Pope Francis, among others, should participate, together with the Secretary- General, in any such delegation. We will continue with the necessary consultations, w

I am pleased to extend to you, Sir, and to the representatives of nations gathered here the warm greetings of Pope Francis. It is good to be together again in person. Last year, I spoke of the dark clouds hanging over humankind; while some of those have lifted, other, dar

ave common challenges that we cannot face independently. My country is committed to the Organization and hopes that its purposes will be achieved. As Pope Francis says, we are all in the same boat and called on to make the commitment to dismantling the walls that separate us. May God bless all our nations.

Mr. President, I am pleased to extend to you and all of the representatives of nations the warm greetings of Pope Francis. In his Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti on fraternity and social friendship, Pope Francis surveyed the many challenges facing the international comm

deepen the dialogue aimed at promoting actions to combat poverty and inequality in order to promote more equitable development. I conclude by echoing Pope Francis’ words during the General Audience at the Vatican: “Hope is audacious”. Hope knows how to look beyond personal comfort, beyond the small securities a

Even Pope Francis, who dedicated his first encyclical Laudato si ’ to the common heritage of our planet, is expected to attend. Making the necessary changes to our liv

Our long-term strategies, however brilliant, will become short-lived history if we do not involve young people. To conclude, let me recall the words Pope Francis addressed to our youth during his recent visit to Slovakia: “Do not be dismayed or yield to those who tell you that nothing will ever change.” We can

itecture and by rising to the occasion can we achieve the results that our people need and expect from us. I leave you with the words of His Holiness Pope Francis: “When we emerge from this pandemic, we will no longer be able to do what we have been doing and how we have been doing it. No, everything will be di

It is also a centre for mutual respect and dialogue. This was reaffirmed in the Jerusalem appeal that His Majesty signed with His Holiness Pope Francis in Rabat on 30 March 2019. I must express the Kingdom’s heartfelt condolences and solidarity with brotherly Lebanon in the aftermath of the explosion

In particular, I wish to thank His Holiness Pope Francis, who dedicated a universal day of prayer for Lebanon. All of his assistance has had a huge positive impact on our country and our people. Practically

ing States of the United Nations 75 years ago. Today, we are experiencing a health crisis of planetary dimensions that invites us to a new beginning. Pope Francis calls on all of us, especially the leaders gathered on this occasion, to think about how to emerge better and not worse from this crisis. Inspired by

ns in Albania. Although Albanians traditionally belong to different religious — they have peacefully lived side by side, since times immemorial. When Pope Francis visited Albania in 2014, he spoke of “religious fraternity”. Last year, we organized in Albania a regional conference, “Religion as an Instrument for

slamic Solidarity Games in 2015 and 2017 respectively. These sporting events are our great contribution to the promotion of multiculturalism as well. Pope Francis paid a visit to Azerbaijan in 2016. This February, I visited the Vatican and had a meeting with Pope Francis.

We wish to share our great happiness at having received, from 4 to 6 September, His Holiness Pope Francis, the Head of the Catholic Church, whose visit, under the theme of “Hope, peace and reconciliation”, strengthened our conviction and hope in relation

impartiality and objectivity of justice. With regard to the role of the press in my country, I will limit myself to respectfully citing His Holiness Pope Francis, who recently said: “We need a journalism that is free, at the service of truth, goodness and justice; a journalism that helps build a culture of enc

n in building bridges of tolerance and dialogue among religions and cultures. In this respect, I would recall the historic visit made by His Holiness Pope Francis to Morocco in March. It was strongly symbolic of Morocco’s valued contribution in the area of promoting religious and cultural dialogue. On the occas

At the outset, I would like to extend the warm greetings of Pope Francis to the President and to all the delegations participating in the seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly. Keenly aware that relationships in t

technology and enlightenment. This year in Abu Dhabi, in conjunction with our declaration of 2019 as a Year of Tolerance in my country, His Holiness Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, signed a document on human brotherhood that constitutes a historic message of peace aimed at promotin

m very proud to say that there are more women than men in my Government, which a good indicator of success. In his memorable visit to Tirana in 2014, Pope Francis advised the youth of Albania to fly higher and higher and higher but never to forget their nest. While that sounds almost like divine advice, it is a

ent and achieve a historic reparation — the restoration to Panama of our Canal and our territorial integrity. There is another page in that book that Pope Francis wrote this January, at the end of World Youth Day, which reads, “Panama is a country of a noble people.” Those are Panama’s stories. It is a privileg

Sudan. I wish to inform the Assembly of a historic spiritual retreat for all South Sudanese leaders at the Vatican at the invitation of His Holiness Pope Francis. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland were also in attendance. The retreat gave fr

guidance, the message of peace and the promotion of social justice of blessed Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who on 14 October will be canonized by Pope Francis, a historic event that our people are celebrating with profound joy and hope.

and values that promote the right to life under all circumstances. In that regard, we wish to reiterate our absolute support for the recent appeal by Pope Francis to the conscience of State authorities around the world to seek an international consensus on the abolition of the death penalty. In addition to call

o acknowledge his courageous efforts to improve the effectiveness of the United Nations system, as part of the collective search for, in the words of Pope Francis, the “common good of humanity”. Over the years, the General Assembly has been confronted with two underlying questions related to the main topics on

h American technology. In pursuing our vocation to be a bridge linking the world, Panama will host World Youth Day in January 2019, to be attended by Pope Francis, which will bring together hundreds of thousands of young people from 192 countries and will be focused on the shared goal of achieving peace to buil

we are told. That seems like a simple command, and yet in a complex world it is sometimes hard to carry out or implement. That is why Filipinos thank Pope Francis, and we thank Secretary-General Guterres and all the countries thathave led and stood by the global compact. We thank migrants around the world for i

izenship. At that conference, we drafted alternative proposals with a humanist vision to welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants. In August, Pope Francis dedicated a pastoral document to those four verbs. We too call on the Governments of the world to come together to tackle criminal networks that traf

itory. Care for the environment is a priority for my Government. Growth cannot take place in a manner that is out of balance with the environment. As Pope Francis warned, the pace of consumption, of waste and of change in the environment has gone beyond the resources of the planet. The environment is a collecti

about leading our countries peacefully, on a basis of dialogue and consensus. In 2015, in his opening remarks to the seventh Summit of the Americas, Pope Francis said, “Panama’s geographic position in the centre of the American continent, making it the meeting point between North and South, between the Pacific

On behalf of His Holiness Pope Francis, I am pleased to congratulate Your Excellency on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session and to commend you

ons received as well as participation in international organizations. Over the past four years, our country has had official visits from His Holiness Pope Francis, former Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus’, as well as other top officials from multilateral organi

Last year, in his address in this Hall, His Holiness Pope Francis defined the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as “an important sign of hope” (A/70/PV.3, p. 4). Just a few days ago, he reiterated his apprecia

e to recall the worrying number of refugees. We hear those numbers so often that sometimes we forget that this is not a numbers game. As His Holiness Pope Francis reminds us, migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humankind. They are children, fathers and mothers — real men and women. Every po

will not be possible without fighting the degradation of nature — an effort to be undertaken with determination and consistency. We were reminded by Pope Francis, in his encyclical Laudato si’, that the natural environment is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all. The immensity of the challenges we

, we need not fear interdependency. This world is our shared home, which is why we must take care of it. We must learn to coexist peacefully, just as Pope Francis has called upon on us to do. Fostering a sense of integration and working 30/56 16-29296 together will only strengthen us. Let us continue to build n

onal conflicts and controversies could be resolved peacefully. We trust that the Court will serve justice. Our greatest wish is to see the message of Pope Francis become reality — to establish channels of dialogue and tear down the walls that divide us. We want to launch a dialogue that satisfies the mutual int

Two months ago, the Holy See and His Holiness Pope Francis acknowledged our country’s commitment to playing an active role in strengthening unity and peace in the world and guiding young people so that they m

tion generated by capitalism has succeeded in melting the polar ice caps and creating unsustainable climate conditions on our planet. In the words of Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato si’, man’s actions and his models of production and consumption have turned the planet into a huge garbage heap. That model

justice and for shared prosperity and a healthy environment that is respectful of future generations, as was quite rightly underlined by His Holiness Pope Francis in front of the General Assembly (see A/70/PV.3). The proliferation of conflicts and crises and the millions of victims caught up in their destructiv

ive and just, because justice, if not effective, is just a pretty word. And effectiveness without justice winds up being ineffective. As His Holiness Pope Francis said from this rostrum last month (see A/70/PV.3), justice is a will that is effective, practical and constant, with concrete steps and immediate mea

use of renewable sources of clean energy, in harmony with nature and in pursuit of development. The whole world heard the urgent call of His Holiness Pope Francis, which was repeated last Friday in the Assembly (see A/70/PV.3). He appealed to us to protect our common home, to engage in urgent discussions on how

Echoing the sentiments of Pope Francis, who recently visited the United Nations, I wish to renew the congratulations of the Holy See to Mr. Lykketoft on his election as President of the Ge

re firmly of the view that countries in our hemisphere committed to this perspective now have an opportunity, on the basis of the initiative taken by Pope Francis and by the President of the United States of America, to promote the path of peaceful resolution of disputes in full awareness of the fact that natio

own. But from big cities to rural villages around the world, we also know that prosperity is still cruelly out of reach for too many. As His Holiness Pope Francis reminds us, we are stronger when we value the least among these and see them as equal in dignity to ourselves and our sons and our daughters.