Speeches by Foreign Minister

I am pleased to have this opportunity, the first since my assumption of the presidency of Guyana, to share with the Assembly some issues of interest and concern...

Uruguay comes to the Assembly today with happiness, pride and even excitement at seeing you, Sir, a countryman of ours, representing Uruguay, as President of th...

Let me express my pleasure at seeing you, Sir, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine — with which Austria has close historical links and enjoys excellent relations —...

Mr. President, allow me first to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the thirtieth session of the General Assembly. Your election is a well-d...

87. The thirteenth session of the General Assembly is convened under the dismal clouds of increased tensions and crises. One wonders if human ingenuity and huma...

53.The English version of his statement was supplied by the delegation. *Mr. President, I should like, first of all, to take this opportunity to convey to you t...

34. Madam President, slow me to extend the very warm congratulations of the Maldivian delegation to you on your election as the President of the twenty-fourth s...

I should like at the outset to sincerely congratulate Mr. Jan Kavan on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty- seventh session. I shoul...

I would like to congratulate Mr Amara Essy, Foreign Minister of Côte d’Ivoire on his election as President of this important Assembly I should also like to exte...

94. Mr. President, first of all, allow me the pleasant duty of felicitating you on your election to the high office of President of this Assembly. Your una...

I should like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its...

I wish to convey Papua New Guinea’s congratulations to you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first s...

This is my first General Assembly as Prime Minister. I was here as Foreign Minister, when the waves of change were sweeping away the cold-war era. I recall the ...

71. It has been only on rare occasions that my delegation has participated in the general debate ever since my country, Iceland, entered the United Nations in 1...

It is indeed an honour to participate in the seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly, representing Sri Lanka. I bring greetings from His Excellency Presi...

 7. Mr. President, the tradition which offers Brazil the privilege of opening the general debate at the United Nations General Assembly gives me this year the ...

1. Guatemala comes before this august world parliament to explain the position of its new Government, revolutionary in its desire to bring about immediate and r...

This year has been an unusual one in China’s development. China’s new central collective leadership has put forward the concept of the “Chinese dream”, a dre...

 I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-second session. I am convinced that your experience a...

It gives me pleasure to congratulate the President warmly on his election to the presidency of the current session of the General Assembly and to wish him succ...