Speeches by Foreign Minister

Permit me first of all to extend, on my own behalf and on that of my delegation, our most sincere and warm congratulations to Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Fore...

25. Mr. President, it is with great pleasure that I congratulate you, on behalf of my Prime Minister and the Government and people of Sierra Leone and as head o...

Allow me to begin by extending to you, Sir, my sincere congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. I am ...

First, Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on your election. I know that the General Assembly will benefit greatly from your wisdom, experience and indepe...

175. I have the pleasure, on behalf of the delegation of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan, of extending to Mr. von Wechmar our sincere congratulations on h...

Mr. President, I am very happy to add my congratulations to those you have already received from so many on your unanimous election as President of this session...

It gives me great pleasure that you, Mr. President, a distinguished diplomat of a friendly socialist country with which Ethiopia has the best of relations, shou...

209. I am very pleased that I should be addressing the General Assembly under the presidency of the representative of Chile, a country with which my own co...

Mr. President, I wish at the outset to offer you the warm congratulations of my delegation, to which I add my own. At this time when the world and the General A...

General debates have traditionally been occasions for stock-taking, for reflecting upon the state of the world and of the United Nations, and for giving voice a...

I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly. I am sure we will all benefit from your long experie...

88. It gives me great pleasure to extend to our President my warmest congratulations and those of my Government on his unanimous election as President of the Ge...

83. Mr. President, the first words of my delegation and of my Government, in participating in this general debate, must be those of satisfaction at seeing the ...

40. Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the Government and delegation of Lebanon, to congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of ...

In the first place, I join with all the other speakers who have preceded me to this rostrum in congratulating Sir Leslie Munro on his election to the high offic...

I should like first to express to Mr. Hollai on this occasion my sincere congratulations on his unanimous election to the distinguished office of the Presiden...

68. On behalf of the Government and people of Chile I wish to congratulate the President of this Assembly most warmly on his election. For many years we have ad...

It is for me a great honour to address this Assembly, an important forum in the struggle for the preservation of peace and the consolidation of friendship and ...

In the course of my statement on 15 November [577th meeting], when I protested against the inclusion of items 24 and 61 in the agenda of this session of the Ass...

I am most happy to have the opportunity and privilege of addressing this twenty-sixth session of the General Assembly and to bring members the greetings of the...