Speeches by Head of State

Your election, Mr. President, represents a fitting tribute to you personally for your well-known qualities as a consummate diplomat and to Malaysia for its con...

My delegation is particularly pleased to convey to Mr. Jan Kavan its heartfelt congratulations and fervent hopes for success in the lofty and important task ah...

It is an honour for me once again to address this Assembly on behalf of my country, Gabon. 83. This new mandate was entrusted to me by the President of our Rep...

The year that has elapsed since the forty- seventh session of the General Assembly was noteworthy for the further growth in the authority and the effectiveness ...

Before beginning my statement may I express on behalf of Venezuela our condolences and our grief on hearing the sad news of the passing of Mr. Paul Hoffman. He ...

1. The pride which I feel in speaking at this moment in the name of Brazil is enhanced, Mr. President, by my gratification at being the first to express to you ...

55. The delegation of the Niger was very grieved to learn this morning of Mr. Fanfani’s accident. Since it is our turn to speak, we should like to take this opp...

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Costa Rica I should like to join the many speakers who have congratulated you on your election as President of thi...

 On behalf of the Mauritanian delegation, Sir, may I first congratulate you on your well-deserved election to the presidency or the forty-second session of the...

62. Mr. President, allow me first of all to offer you my delegation's sincere congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seven...

The General Assembly’s annual convening in New York is a world event which, each year, expresses the hope of nations and peoples to find common ground, through ...

I should like at the outset to express the hope of the Central African Republic, its Government and its President, General Andr6 Kolingba, that the thirty-eigh...

 On behalf of my Head of State, His Majesty King Mswati III, the Government and people of the Kingdom of Swaziland, I should like at the very outset to convey ...

63. As has become customary each year at this time, the general debate gives us the invaluable opportunity to summarize the political and economic situation i...

Allow me first of all, Sir, to convey, on behalf of my delegation, my warmest and most heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Opertti on his election to the presidenc...

May I first, on behalf of our Minister for Foreign Affairs, who could not be here, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, join previous speakers in ex...

Today, we bear witness to a digital transformation all over the globe. So far, it has been reflected above all in the global economy. However, there is no doubt...

Our brother, Mr. Salim of the United Republic of Tanzania, to whom I am happy today to pay a tribute, conducted, step by step, with the competence, tact and go...

A year ago, during the thirty-sixth session, President Moussa Traore, head of State of Mali, affirmed from this rostrum that "The aspiration of our peoples to...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum in Geneva to address to the League of Nations an appeal for relief from the destruction wh...