Speeches by Minister for Foreign Affairs

The unanimous election of Prince Wan Waithayakon to the office of President of this Assembly is a deserved tribute to the tact and ability he has displayed amon...

114. As I gaze from this rostrum on the panorama of the Assembly, a long-familiar feeling of admiration and an awareness of shared ideals and principles call to...

 I should like at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the office of President of the General Assembly. I am confident that your experien...

Ms. Lydie Polfer, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg regrets having had to cut short her stay in New York. She has asked me to m...

My delegation would like to congratulate Mr. Han on his dynamic stewardship of the deliberations of the General Assembly at this session. Our felicitations als...

Mr. President, your election to guide the work of this session honours you and gives us cause for rejoicing for, given your qualities as an experienced diploma...

Allow me at the outset to express to the President my warmest congratulations on his election to guide the fiftieth session of the General Assembly. We are conf...

It is my pleasure to congratulate the President on his election. It bears witness to the esteem which the international community has for his country and for hi...

Speaking here on behalf of my country, I wish to congratulate the new Secretary-General of the Organization, Mr. Kofi Annan, who, after nine months in his post...

I would like to congratulate Mr. Han Seung-soo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, on his assumption of the presidency of the Gen...

Last year in this Assembly I expressed unease over the dark clouds gathering on the international horizon and detected early warning signals of a new round of ...

On behalf of the Burundi delegation and on my own behalf, I first congratulate you warmly, Sir, on your election to lead the work of the current session. Your e...

109. I should like to extend to Mr. Gaston Thorn our warmest congratulations on his election as President of this session of the General Assembly. These congr...

192. Please accept our sincere congratulations, Mr. President, on your unanimous election to the high office of President of the thirty-ninth session of the Ge...

 I have the honour to convey to all representatives the warm greetings and best wishes of my august sovereign. His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, for the succ...

On behalf of the people of Rwanda and on my own behalf, allow me to convey sincere and heartfelt congratulations to you on your outstanding election as Presiden...

101. At the beginning of this statement my delegation has the very pleasant duty of offering hearty congratulations to Mr. Arenales, as several previous speaker...

81. Together with all the other Members of the United Nations, the Austrian delegation is delighted that the General Assembly has elected as the President of it...

Allow me first to congratulate Mr. Freitas do Amaral on his election as the President of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly. My Government is convince...

This session is meeting at a time when there are real prospects for a further relaxation of international tension. The whole world breathed a sigh of relief whe...