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We, the Togolese people, are profoundly and sincerely attached to peace and the union of our countrymen; for we know that we are not alone in the world and that...

Mr. President, it is a pleasure for me first of all to offer to you, on my own behalf and on behalf of the Tunisian delegation, our warmest congratulations on y...

As I take the floor it gives me particular pleasure to express to you, Mr. President, both on my own behalf and on that of my delegation, our sincerest congratu...

Mr. President, I should like to start by expressing, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, our warm congratulations on your election to the office of...

The work of this session of the United Nations General Assembly is starting in more auspicious conditions than that of many previous sessions. One might say tha...

Mr. President, I should like immediately to say what a pleasure it is for me, representing my country here, to sit under your chairmanship. We are confident tha...

As one who has taken some interest in the election of Presidents, I should like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his election to this hi...

The Eastern Republic of Uruguay wishes, through me, to congratulate Mr. Carlos Sosa Rodriguez, Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, on h...

We welcome the election of His Excellency Dr. Carlos Sosa Rodríguez, the representative of Venezuela, as President of this General Assembly at so important a mo...

Mr. President, permit me first to congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly. Your country has shown deep understanding of our ...

Allow me, Mr, President, to extend to you, on behalf of the Yugoslav delegation and myself, our sincere congratulations on your unanimous election to the respon...

1. It gives me great pleasure, Mr. President, to join, all those who have congratulated you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly. The choi...

Mr. President, in congratulating you and the Assembly upon your election to preside over our deliberations, the thought of your brilliant and most distinguished...

First of all, I wish to extend the hearty congratulations of my Government and the Afghan people to the representatives of Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad...

On taking the floor for the first time at this session, I should like first to extend my delegation's congratulations to the President of the General Assembly o...

47. It is both a great honour and an immense pleasure for me to address this august Assembly, which aims to be, and must be, the conscience of the world. 48. Af...

44. The Argentine delegation to the seventeenth session of the United Nations General Assembly is happy to congratulate you most sincerely, Mr. President, on yo...

Allow me, Mr. President, at the opening of Australia's statement in the general debate, to express the sincere congratulations and the great pleasure of my coun...

Mr. President, first of all permit me to extend to you the most heartfelt congratulations of the Austrian, delegation. We are, together with all the other deleg...

It is a generally accepted rule that a speaker in the general debate begins by extending his congratulations to the President on his election. This is a rule wi...