Speeches by Foreign Minister

Mr. President, it is a great pleasure for me to reiterate from this rostrum my congratulations on your election. Our past experience has acquainted us with your...

61. Mr. President, I should like to extend to you my heartiest congratulations on your election. By electing you, the Assembly has recognized your long and frui...

In the brief but turbulent history of the United Nations, there was surely never a time when we Stood in more obvious need of the humane and objective viewpoint...

The Republic of Nauru congratulates the President of the General Assembly on her election. Nauru commends her pledge to work with Member States to achieve th...

My delegation warmly welcomes the assumption by Ambassador Garba of- the stewardship of the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly. He is an eminent perso...

1. My first words are addressed to Mr. Maza, the leader of the Chilean delegation, in recognition of the high honour conferred on him and his most worthy count...

It is difficult to remember a time when the United Nations confronted greater dangers to itself and to the cause of universal peace than those which crowd in up...

 On behalf of my Government, I wish at the outset to extend warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the forty-fourth session of t...

My delegation greets and congratulates you, Sir, for presiding over the deliberations of the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly — the Mi...

Mr. President, on behalf of my Government and delegation, let me first of all extend to you our sincere congratulations on your election to your high office. Th...

Ghana, like many other nations here, is delighted and feels proud that a distinguished lady endowed with excellent diplomatic skills has been elected to the ...

Mr President, let me congratulate you and your country, Portugal, on your election as President of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly. At the same tim...

Let me first welcome the Secretary-General back from his pilgrimage for peace in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands have already fallen in the bloody confl...

I extend my warmest congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Miroslav Lajčák on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session. My...

We understand that an American Airlines flight to the Dominican Republic has gone down in Queens. We extend the condolences and the support of my Government to...

I should like at the outset to express, on behalf of Denmark, the most sincere condolences to the United Nations and to the families of Sergio Vieira de Mello ...

We are pleased that an important figure in Namibia's attainment of independence has the responsibility of conducting this session of the General Assembly. I als...

Allow me to extend my congratulations to Mr. Srgjan Kerim on his election to the high office of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session...

Let me at the very outset extend to Ambassador de Pinies of Spain my warmest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly. The Greek Gov...

 It is with a deep sense of history that I address the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session, the first since the end of the cold war. The confidence we ...