Speeches by Delegation

On this special occasion, when I have the honour to speak to various delegations that have come from the four corners of the world to participate in the Gene...

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Japan, I extend to you, Sir, our warm congratulations on your election as President of the eighteenth session of t...

I would first like to congratulate Mr. John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session...

On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I wish to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his election as the President of the General Assembly...

I should like first to extend warm congratulations to Mr. Razali Ismail on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. W...

75. Mr. President, it affords great satisfaction to my delegation that a distinguished son of Africa has been chosen to preside over the proceedings of this ses...

On behalf of my Government, and on my own behalf, I wish to express to you, Mr. President, our sincere and cordial congratulations on your election. Under your ...

122. Mr. President, on behalf of the people and Government of Costa Rica I am happy to extend to you our warmest congratulations on the well-deserved honour wit...

133. I should like to borrow a vivid metaphor used by that great man Churchill to describe the role of small countries. Among the background material to the Yal...

186. I should like first of all to address to you, Mr. President, my warmest greetings on your election to the presidency of the thirty-third session of the Ge...

It is with genuine feeling that I return to this podium where I first came when I addressed the eleventh session of the General Assembly as Minister of Foreign ...

149. Speaking last year on my first appearance before this world Assembly [1345th meeting], I must have appeared to seasoned internationalists as striking ...

Allow me to join the delegations that preceded me in congratulating Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election to preside over the proceedings of the fifty-sixth sessio...

On behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, I should like, first of all, to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the preside...

1. Mr. President, I should like first of all to convey to you the warmest congratulations of the delegation of Ireland on your election as President. Your elect...

Thank you very much, Sir. But I prefer to be called “Flight-Lieutenant” and not “Mr.” I join preceding speakers in congratulating the President and the ...

1. Mr. President, I should like to address to you, on behalf of my delegation, my warm and sincere congratulations upon your election to the Presidency of t...

Allow me first, on behalf of the Indonesian delegation, to extend our sincere congratulations to Mr. Peter Florin on his election as President at the forty-sec...

Allow me to extend to Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko the sincere congratulations of my delegation on his election to the presidency of the fifty- second session of the ...

May I offer you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your election to the high post of President of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. We are conf...