Speeches by Head of state

1. I hope 1 am not too much mistaken if I say that it has been a matter of conscience in order, as it were, to justify the trip to New York that in previous ye...

The General Assembly has by the unanimous decision of its members, Sir, elected you President of its thirty-ninth session. That outstanding election had been e...

71. It had been my hope that a loftier personality would be presenting the greetings and congratulations of my Government to the President. Due to unforeseen c...

Sir, I hail, salute and congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly. You bring to this high posit...

There are some repetitions which explain themselves and which we cannot easily avoid when they constitute a well-deserved tribute to fine qualities of heart an...

51. A few months ago, Mr. President, you went to the plateau of Mexico to take part in the tribute which we paid, on the seventh centenary of his birth, to Dant...

Last year, my Head of State, Captain Valentine E. M. Strasser, acquainted this body with the devastation visited on Sierra Leone as the result of the civil war ...

This is the second general debate in which my delegation has participated, and our statement of policy cannot be unrelated to the line which we have followed s...

1. The unanimous vote of this Assembly in electing you, Sir, as its President expressed its recognition of the contribution you have made to the United Nations ...

Having paid in its turn its tribute to the President and assured him of its co-operation, the Belgian delegation wishes to make a substantial though brief contr...

This is neither the place nor the time for me to repeat what my head of State and I have said in speeches regarding most of the critical national, regional and ...

I should like, first of all, to convey to you. Sir, my sincere congratulations on your election as President of the fortieth session of the General Assembly. Yo...

First of all, it is a signal honour and pleasant duty for me, as head of the delegation of my country, to convey my country's greetings to our Assembly, which ...

On behalf of the Chilean delegation I wish first of all to congratulate you. Sir, on your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. We...

In speaking for the first time at this session, I should like first of all to express, on behalf of my delegation and in my own name, our sincere congratulatio...

Mr. President, it is an honour to come to this important rostrum to represent a Government born of the people's will. Your personal qualities and experience en...

Mr. President, it is a particular pleasure for me, on behalf of the delegation of Niger, to congratulate you moat warmly on your brilliant election to the pres...

The Philippines offers its warmest congratulations to Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Foreign Minister of Algeria, on his election as President of the twenty-nint...

At a time when the United Nations is going through a painful crisis of growth, when relations between States are becoming more and more complex and presenting ...

The unanimous election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly of Mr. Bouteflika, the distinguished representative of Algeria, a country with ...