Speeches by Foreign Minister

Mr. President, it is a source of pride and gratification for me to express to you my heart felt congratulations on your election as President of the General Ass...

31. Mr. President, it is only fitting that on this twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, a man of your stature, who has contributed so much to a bette...

76. I want first to congratulate our President on his election, to wish him success and to express our goodwill and our support. I would want also to express ou...

I would like first of all to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Jan Kavan for his work as President of the General Assembly at its previous session. We apprec...

Mr. President, may I first of all congratulate you on your election, and on the dignified and effective way in which you are already presiding over this Assembl...

It is a very pleasant duty for me to offer you my heartiest congratulations, Sir, on your election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Ass...

May I congratulate the President on his new responsibilities and pay tribute to Mr. Freitas do Amaral of Portugal. During last year’s jubilee session, his pers...

Let me at the outset convey to the President the warm and sincere felicitations of Sri Lanka on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its...

May I be permitted to join our colleagues who preceded me in congratulating Sir Leslie Munro and wishing him success in presiding over our deliberations during ...

48. Mr. President, I wish to join in congratulating you on your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. Your wide experience of int...

It had been planned that our Foreign Minister would address the Assembly. However, given the great concern that has been caused by the conflict between Iran an...

I, Israel Katz, son of Holocaust survivors Meir and Malka Katz — may they rest in peace — am proud to stand here today, at the rostrum of the United Nations Gen...

Mr. President, it is my privilege to join all my colleagues in extending heartiest congratulations to you on your election to the high office of the presidency ...

238. Mr. President, my first words will be to express, on behalf of the delegation of Paraguay, the great pleasure with which we learned of the election of the...

It is with great pleasure that I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly. You bring to the Assembly...

It gives me much pleasure. Comrade President, to extend to you hearty congratulations on your election to preside over the United Nations General Assembly at i...

150. Mr. President, this session of the Assembly opens amidst signs of a new vitality, in an atmosphere of rising expectations. It is thus fitting that a perso...

It is a pleasure for me to congratulate you. Sir, on your unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-second session. I note and appre...

 The choice of you, Sir, at the beginning of this session to assume the important duties of President of the General Assembly at its forty-second session is a ...

Mr. President, I should like to start by echoing the congratulations which my colleagues have extended to you on your assumption of office as President of the t...