Speeches by Foreign Minister

Speaking as I am for the first time from this rostrum and representing a country whose policy is profoundly attached to the noble principles of dialog and toler...

I wish to congratulate the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Namibia, Theo-Ben Gurirab, on his wise leadership of the fifty-fourth General Assembly and his able pr...

This year is very special to Bangladesh at the United Nations. It is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bangladesh’s admission to this “Parliament of Man”. I bring...

38. Mr. President, when I had the privilege of visiting your country recently I voiced the hope that this year's session of the General Assembly of the United N...

I should like first of all, Sir, to congratulate you most warmly on your brilliant election to the presidency of this Assembly. I am firmly convinced that your...

It is indeed an honour for me to address this Assembly for the first time. I would like to start by congratulating His Excellency Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on...

 Mr. President, I offer you sincere congratulations on having been elected to your high office and wish you luck and success in carrying out your responsible t...

I bring warm greetings, Sir, from the Government and people of Solomon Islands, and I wish to congratulate the President on his election to lead the General Ass...

I would like to say, Mr. President, that I take special pleasure in seeing you preside over this Millennium Assembly session. I wish to assure you of my deleg...

First of all, may I congratulate President Jan Kavan, well known for his expertise in human rights, on his election to preside over this General Assembly. My c...

69. Mr. President, I should like, first of all, to tender to you the cordial and sincere felicitations of the delegation of Burma, and my own personal congratul...

80. Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on your election to the Chair of the General Assembly at its twenty-second session. The constructive role which yo...

During the recent war, many of the nations represented in this Assembly sacrificed their blood and treasure for a common cause. There was a spirit of co-operati...

Thirty years after the triumph of the people’s Sandinista Revolution and the start of a process of popular and participatory democracy, on behalf of the Pres...

The international order born out of the Second World Mar is dead. We have seen an end to a stage in history marked by the cold war, the bipolar division of wor...

May I begin by congratulating the President on his election to preside over the General Assembly at its fifty-second session. We are in good hands as we begin ...

1. Mr. President, the Members of the United Nations have expressed deep confidence in you and your country by electing you to guide their deliberations in the t...

“[Today more then ever we should realize that we are delegations of many countries] to the same Assembly which collectively represents the interests of the worl...

Allow me first of all to convey the apologies of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vanuatu, The Honourable Serge Vohor, who is unable to be here on this histor...

Allow me first, Mr. President, to offer you my sincerest congratulations on your appointment, and to express my satisfaction that the work of the General Assemb...