Speeches by Minister for Foreign Affairs

First of all, I would like to congratulate Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election as President of this fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nat...

I would like to begin by congratulating His Excellency Mr. Sam Kutesa, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda, on his election to the presidency of th...

Allow me first of all to congratulate the President most warmly on his election to serve as President of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. I als...

I wish to state that it is a signal honor to address the Assembly from this rostrum the highest expression of world thinking where illustrious statesmen from th...

103. Mr. President, it is an honour for a representative of the Republic of Burundi to have been given this opportunity to extend his warm congratulations to Mr...

118. Mr. President, first allow me to congratulate you on behalf of the Yugoslav delegation, on your election to the highest office of our Assembly and to say t...

First of all, I should like to extend to the President of the General Assembly at this forty-eighth session my sincere congratulations on his election. He was u...

140. It is my pleasant duty to extend to Mr. Benites my warm congratulations upon his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. These congratulation...

I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Julian Robert Hunte, Foreign Minister of Saint Lucia, on his assumption of the office of President f...

Your election, Sir, to the presidency of the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly is a tribute to your outstanding qualities as a diplomat and re...

First of all I should like to offer my congratulations to Mr. Amerasinghe upon his election as President of this Assembly. This is a tribute to his great person...

The forty-sixth session of the General Assembly is taking place in a spirit of true peace, tranquillity and security under the auspices of the international co...

Mr. President, it is with pride that I congratulate you, a representative of Ukraine, on your election to the international community’s highest political post....

Sir, at the outset I should like to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly. I am confident that...

I would like first of all to express to Ambassador Razali my cordial congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly. I am firmly convince...

Allow me first to say how pleased we are to see Ambassador Freitas do Amaral of Portugal presiding over this session of the General Assembly, a session that coi...

I wish to say, before my printed remarks begin, some words not circulated in the text. It is a particular privilege and honour to represent my country in this ...

First of all, I should like to associate myself with the words of gratitude expressed by so many of my colleagues to France and to the French Government for the...

At the outset, please allow me to express, on behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, our pleasure on congratulating you, Sir, on...

I would like first of all to express to you, Sir, our warm congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. We...