Speeches by Head of State

Mr. President, first of all I should like to associate myself with the previous speakers who have extended to you warm congratulations on your unanimous electi...

I congratulate President Francis on the occasion of the opening of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly. Since last year, when I addressed everyon...

It was the unanimous decision of the States Members of the United Nations to proclaim 1986 the International Year of Peace. That decision has inspired millions...

It will be exactly one year on 12 November next since this Assembly, almost unanimously, admitted the Comoros to membership in the United Nations. 2. These 11 m...

The convening in the splendid metropolis of New York of this last General Assembly session of the millennium affords me the happy opportunity, on behalf of the ...

This is the first occasion on which I have had the honour to appear before this lofty international body to speak on behalf of my country, Paraguay. I do so wit...

2. Mr, President, I wish first to express my personal congratulations to you on your unanimous election to your important position. We have two reasons to be p...

Like previous speakers, I would like to seek your indulgence before I start my statement as I associate my delegation’s voice with those who have spoken here an...

On behalf of the delegation of Zaire and on ray own behalf I should like at the outset to congratulate the President on his election to guide the work of the Un...

230. The Secretary-General has once again awakened the international community to what he correctly characterizes as the partial paralysis of the United Natio...

There is an overwhelming air of expectancy across the world as we gather at this fifty- second session of the General Assembly. It is hoped that the events of ...

Mr. President, it is for me a pleasant duty to congratulate you on your election as President of this session of the General Assembly. Your long experience in t...

The euphoria and enthusiasm that greeted, no so long ago, the disappearance of ideological East-West confrontation and the progressive expansion of freedom an...

112. Mr. President, the General Assembly has once again chosen a person of the greatest distinction to direct its work. After Mongi Slim, Zafrullah Khan and Sos...

Mr. President, your election to the presidency of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly represents recognition of your unquestioned qualities as a ve...

It is a pleasure for me to speak for the first time from the rostrum of the United Nations as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of...

1. I am indeed pleased, Sir, to extend to you, on behalf of the Liberian delegation and myself, sincere congratulations on your election as President of the tw...

For the first time in many years the world is living through a period free from war. For the first time the world can hope that men will no longer die on battle...

I should like to associate myself with those who have spoken before me on this rostrum in congratulating Mr. von Wechmar, on behalf of the Haitian delegation, ...

The delegation of Senegal warmly congratulates the President on his election to guide the work of the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session. In addition ...