Speeches by Head of State

**• Mr António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations** **• Mr Philémon Yunji Yang, President of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Ass...

At the outset, I wish to join others in extending our heartfelt congratulations to the President on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sev...

Next year we shall commemorate with enthusiasm a double anniversary—the fortieth anniversary of the Organization and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the histor...

Permit me to extend to you, Mr. President, our heartfelt congratulations on your election, which demonstrates Member States' conviction that you have the abil...

At the outset, on behalf of the Republic of the Niger, I would like to extend to Mr. Joseph Deiss my sincere congratulations on his outstanding election as t...

Mr. President, allow me first of all to express, on behalf of the delegation, Government and people of Equatorial Guinea, our most sincere congratulations on yo...

Please allow me, like preceding speakers, to extend to you, His Excellency Mr. Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, on behalf of the people of Guinea and of General Lans...

At the outset, I would like, on behalf of the Head of State, the Head of Government and the people of Togo, to congratulate the General Assembly on the occas...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate the elected President of the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session, His Excellency Mr. Abdulla Shahid, and t...

I would like to acknowledge the work of the President of the seventy-seventh session and to congratulate the President of this session. Mr. Dennis Francis, by w...

153. This session of the General Assembly which we are now beginning has, as has already been said, a special and far-reaching importance. For the first time ...

Allow me, Ambassador Samuel Insanally, to congratulate you sincerely, on behalf of my delegation, on your election as President of the General Assembly of the U...

At the outset, on behalf of Mali, allow me to extend warm congratulations to the President on his election to guide the General Assembly at its seventy-second s...

Sir, I could not go to the substance of my statement without first expressing to you my sincerest congratulations on your election as President of the thirty-fi...

On behalf of the Nigerian delegation, I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the twenty-ninth session of the General Assembly. Your election ...

In unanimously electing Mr. Slim to preside over its sixteenth session the General Assembly has made an excellent choice, for in him are united all the qualiti...

First of all, Sir, let me add my voice to the congratulations on your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth sessio...

It gives me pleasure to extend to the President and to the members of the General Committee, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, our congr...

At the outset, I should like to convey the sincere congratulations of the delegation of Burkina Faso to Mr. Ganev on his election to the presidency of the fo...

Mr. President, His Excellency Mr. Joseph Kabila Kabange, President of the Republic, is unable to attend but has instructed me to convey to you his most heart...