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Allow me to warmly congratulate Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his well-deserved election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. I ass...

Sixty-four years since the foundation of the United Nations we recall the self-evident fact that the United Nations was created to prevent atrocities such as...

I wish the President all the best for this General Assembly. Along with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he can count on Portugal’s firm support in his work. ...

Allow me at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you on your election to 09-52179 30 the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- fourth session. ...

First of all, let me extend my sincere congratulations to the President, Mr. Ali Treki, on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its si...

At the outset, I would like to address to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki my warmest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its si...

Today, speaking from this high rostrum, I would like to highlight five topics that are, in my view, important to all of us and our common approaches to the ...

This session of the General Assembly offers further opportunity to reflect on how best to reconcile what at times mistakenly appears to be irreconcilable: so...

It is indeed an honour to address the General Assembly at its sixty- fourth session. Today, we converge in this Hall to outline how, from the perspective of o...

I wish to express the warm congratulations of the delegation of Saint Lucia to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his election to serve as President of the General ...

At the outset, the Government and people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines take this opportunity to extend deepest condolences to the people of the Philipp...

The value of the United Nations to humanity has not diminished with the passing of time. Our Organization remains as relevant today as when it was establishe...

Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on your election as the head of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and to assure you that the delegat...

Before anything else, allow me to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Ali Treki of Libya, a country with which we maintain excellent relations of brotherhood, f...

We are meeting once again, but this time at a moment when humankind is facing many problems, each as difficult as the others, as if they had been planned to ...

The United Nations is the only universal institution that unites us all as a global community of independent States. At the very heart of this indispensable ...

On behalf of President James Michel of Seychelles, leader of one of the smallest nations of this Assembly, I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as Presi...

I feel highly honoured to address the Assembly once again. I would like to start by congratulating Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his assumption of the presiden...

When we met here last year, financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers and American International Group (AIG) were falling like tenpins. For weeks, credi...

It is a great privilege and honour for me to address the General Assembly, to which people of the world look with high hopes and expectations to find effecti...