Speeches by Foreign Minister

The general debate in which we are now engaged serves many purposes. Above all it gives the Governments of all Member States, great and small, an opportunity to...

1. It is my great pleasure to convey to the President, in the name of the people and the Government of the People’s Republic of Southern Yemen and of my delega...

Mr. President, the twenty-seventh annual session of the General Assembly having been placed under your presidency, it is my pleasure to congratulate you, on beh...

Mr. President, may I, not in a perfunctory manner, congratulate you on behalf of the Canadian delegation on your election, and offer you our best wishes? Having...

It is a great pleasure for me to convey through you, Sir, to the President of the General Assembly our sincere congratulations upon his election. I am confident...

I should like, at the outset to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Stoyan Ganev, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, on his unanimous electio...

During the past few years the world has made remarkable advances toward the Charter goal of practicing tolerance and living together in peace with one another a...

Sir, I should like to begin my statement by extending to you our sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of this session. This is a fittin...

First of all, I have great pleasure in congratulating you. Sir, and your country, Bulgaria, on your election as President of the General Assembly. I should al...

I am privileged to speak this morning on behalf of the European Community and its 12 member States. It is a pleasure to do so under your guidance, Mr. Preside...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you our warmest congratulations on your election to the Presidency of the eighteenth session of the Gener...

I join with so many others who have preceded me on this rostrum during the course of the general debate in conveying to Prince Wan Waithayakon the congratulatio...

 Sir, may I offer you my congratulations on taking up the presidency of the General Assembly and send my warm thanks to the outgoing President, the Deputy Fore...

May I, on behalf of my delegation congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. Kenya's pride in see...

Please accept my warm congratulations, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fiftieth session. At the same time, I wish to thank you...

 Mr. President, allow me, on behalf of the delegation of the Mongolian People's Republic, to congratulate Mr. Benites sincerely once again on his election t...

79. Mr. President, I should like in the beginning to join with those of my colleagues who have spoken in saying how happy I am that we meet under your guidance ...

40. MThis fourteenth session of the General Assembly opened under particularly happy auspices. The responsible heads of the two great Powers which today constit...

39. Mr. President, my delegation has had the opportunity on a previous occasion to congratulate you on your election to the high office of the Presidency of ...

 It gives me pleasure at the beginning of my address to the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly to extend sincere congratulations to you, Sir, upon yo...