Speeches by Head of State

I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your excellent leadership and the important theme chosen for this session, which invites us to reflect at a critical time ...

First of all, I wish to express my thanks to the Assembly for having come to hear Paraguay's position. Secondly, I must apologize if I am interrupting your lun...

Allow me at the outset to extend my warm congratulations upon your election to the presidency of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly. That election ...

I am delighted to address the General Assembly in the year of its fiftieth anniversary. On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I convey warm congratulations to t...

Sir, it gives me great pleasure to convey to you our heartfelt congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-second s...

The Republic of Panama is deeply gratified at the election of Mr- Samir Shihabi as President of the General Assembly, and we are confident that under his able ...

The General Assembly’s choice of Mr. Freitas do Amaral to serve as President at this fiftieth session is a fitting tribute to his eminent qualities and to the r...

In June 2009, humankind was still witnessing with perplexity the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and its devastating consequences on employm...

The delegation of the new Central African Republic, which is attending a session of the General Assembly for the first time, is pleased to be here and expresse...

The outstanding election of the representative of Poland as President of this year's session of the General Assembly fills us with joy. We believe that at one a...

I should like at the outset to convey to you, Sir, my heartfelt and sincere congratulations on your well- deserved election as President of the General Assemb...

On behalf of His Excellency President Andre Kolingba, Head of State and Government of the Republic, who wishes us every success in our work, I should like to e...

In addressing this forty-sixth session of the General Assembly, I should like first of all to express the respect and very high esteem felt by the people of Sa...

186. Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Cameroon, I wish to join the representatives who have preceded me in addressing to you our warmest congratul...

Allow me to begin by congratulating Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. I am convinced that with...

We live in a world of constant transformation, where even the ideals that motivate mankind have been rapidly changing. Yet those visions of national identity, ...

We in Belize are keenly aware of the essential role the United Nations plays in advancing the cause of freedom, peace and justice throughout the world. Our str...

I wish to begin by congratulating the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at the seventy-first session. I wish to assure him of ...

It is a pleasure, on behalf of my delegation and myself, to extend to the President our warmest congratulations and best wishes on his election as President of ...

It is an honour and a pleasure for me to take the floor once again before this Assembly. At the outset I would like to congratulate the President on his brillia...