Speeches by Head of state

1. I should be remiss, Mr. President, if I did not congratulate you on your accession to the Presidency of this nineteenth session of the General Assembly, the ...

On behalf of the Gabonese Government Sir, I offer you most cordial and heartfelt congratulations on your election to preside over the forty-third session of th...

100. Mr. President, in taking the floor, may I first of all offer you, on behalf of the Italian Government and myself, sincere congratulations on your election ...

It is indeed an honour once again to address the General Assembly. On behalf of the people of Sierra Leone, and on my own behalf, I congratulate you, Sir, on y...

129. 130. First of all, may I express the emotion felt by my delegation and by me on learning this morning of the sudden death of His Holines...

2. It is my privilege to convey the warmest congratulations of the Government r d delegation of the Dominican Republic, and my own personal congratulations, t...

I should like first to congratulate the President on his election. I see it as a tribute not only to him personally but also to his country which holds a distin...

From this rostrum the most authoritative voices in world politics have taken up, with a greater or lesser degree of passion, the question of the emancipation of...

Mr. President, may I, on behalf of the delegation of Burundi, say how pleased we are to see you presiding over the work of the thirty-fifth session of the Gene...

Mr. President your unanimous election to the presidency of this august Assembly is for the delegation of Rwanda a cause for great pleasure and legitimate pride...

I congratulate Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral on his assumption of the presidency of the fiftieth regular session of the United Nations General Assembly. We note h...

 42. Mr. President, your presidency of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly is a matter of the greates...

183. Mr. President, in speaking for the first time before this Assembly I am happy first of all to extend, through you, Sir, the warmest congratulations of the...

I am pleased to express the cordial congratulations of the delegation of Peru to our President on his election to the presidency of the thirty--sixth session o...

200. The thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly has opened in an atmosphere of expectation and hope. We are reminded that at the thirty-fifth session the...

Mr. President, my first words will naturally be to express to you the sincere congratulations of the delegation of Mauritania. In more ways than one, no choice ...

Mr. President, your election as President of the twenty-ninth session of the Assembly comes at a time when dramatic events are taking place in Africa and the qu...

282. I wish to begin by conveying to the President, on behalf of the People's Republic of Angola, our warm congratulations upon his election to the presidency ...

On behalf of the Ugandan delegation I wish to congratulate Ambassador Shihabi of Saudi Arabia on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its ...

I convey to the President the warmest felicitations of Sri Lanka on his election to the high office of President of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assem...