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It is with great joy that I have the honor of welcoming Mr. Amerasinghe, through you, Sir, as President of this thirty-first ordinary session of the General Ass...

168. In the name of the President, people and Government of the Somali Democratic Republic and on behalf of the Somali delegation to the thirty-first session of...

Mr. President, allow me to say a few words of farewell and a few words of welcome. My words of farewell are for the outgoing President of this Assembly, Mr. Tho...

It is my privilege today to appear before this Assembly, not merely as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka but also as die current Chairman of the Group of Non-Alig...

Mr. President, I should like, at the outset, to express to you my heartfelt congratulations on your unanimous election as President of this session. I am convin...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you my warmest congratulations on your election to the high office of President of this General Assembly....

Mr. President, I wish to express my sincere congratulations to you on your election to the presidency of this historic thirty- first session of the United Natio...

Permit me first to express the Swedish Government's satisfaction at your election as President of this Assembly. Not only is your election and expression of the...

Permit me first of all, Mr. President, to convey to you the warm salutations of His Excellency Abdel Halim Khaddam, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Forei...

As William Shakespeare said in Act I, scene 2, of Julius Caesar: "Men at some time are masters of their fate: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But i...

Mr. President, the Tunisian delegation sincerely rejoices at your election to head this session of the United Nations General Assembly. The tribute thus paid, t...

Allow me first of all to extend my congratulations to Mr. Amerasinghe, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka, upon his election to the presidency of the thi...

Mr. President, may I first of all take this opportunity to convey to you and, through you, to all delegations assembled here, greetings from His Excellency Alha...

The changes in the international situation, which have occurred in the first half of the 1970s, can, without exaggeration, be described as the start of a new ph...

On behalf of the Soviet delegation I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the important post of President of the thirty- first session of t...

Allow me, first of all, to extend my delegation's congratulations to Mr. Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe on his election as President of the General Assembly at it...

The thirty-first session of the General Assembly is an auspicious occasion for the Commonwealth. It is particularly gratifying to the United Kingdom that the Pr...

On behalf of the delegation of Tanzania, I would like to join my colleagues who have spoken before me in congratulating Ambassador Amerasinghe on his election t...

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 ...

First of all I should like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Gaston Thorn, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, the last President...