Speeches by Delegation

Climate change, at the centre of the high-level event a week ago, constitutes one of the greatest challenges of our generation. It puts to the test our abili...

A surprising current tendency is to crystallize the most complex problems in the simplest terms, in slogans. That is practical; it saves time, a commodity of wh...

It is my great pleasure to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session and to wish you eve...

104. On behalf of the President of the Republic of Gabon, may I join previous speakers in warmly congratulating the President on having been unanimously chosen...

Please allow me to extend to you, Sir, my delegation?s sincere congratulations on your election to preside over the fifty-third session of the General Assembly....

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, on behalf of the delegation of the Kingdom of Morocco, my sincere congratulations on your election ...

Mr. President, in addressing this Assembly for the first time, I am conscious that you have given long and distinguished service to the United Nations. My deleg...

Allow me, Mr. President, at the outset, to express to you my sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the forty-seventh session of the Ge...

As this is my first time addressing the General Assembly as Head of State, I wish to sincerely congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election to the presidency o...

May I at the outset, on behalf of the delegation of the Ivory Coast and on my own behalf, offer most heartfelt and cordial congratulations following the unanim...

1. Mr. President, may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election to this very high and important office. Your distinguished career as a public...

Sir, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you the sincere congratulations of the Lebanese delegation on your election as President of the General Assembly f...

Let me express my delight at seeing Ambassador Garba of Nigeria in the Chair as President of the forty-fourth session of the General assembly. He is an experie...

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...

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...

107. Mr. President, may I first of all congratulate you on behalf of the USSR delegation on your election to the high post of President of the General Assemb...

99. Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to hail your unanimous election to the presidency of the thirty-third session of our Assembly. Upper Volta particularly...

This meeting of our Assembly is faced with an inescapable fact: the grave tension and the anxiety bordering on despair which were a feature of the time when we ...

It gives me great pleasure to offer Foreign Minister Hennadiy Udovenko of Ukraine the felicitations of my delegation on his assumption of the presidency of the...

64. Mr. President, it gives me great satisfaction, on behalf of the Saudi Arabian delegation, to tender you my warm congratulations on the occasion of your unan...