Speeches by Minister for Foreign Affairs

187. I have pleasure in once again conveyed to the President, on behalf of my Government, the congratulations addressed to him by the Congolese delegation...

71. First of all, I want to join the speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum in offering my warm congratulations to Mr. Arenales, the Minister for Foreign...

I should like to express my sincere congratulations to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the forty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I am con...

It is an honour and a great pleasure for me to congratulate you, Sir, on your unanimous election to the high post of President of the General Assembly at its t...

I wish cordially to greet you, Mr. Amara Essy of Cote d’Ivoire, and to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I pledge the...

First of all I should like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Gaston Thorn, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, the last President...

Mr. President, the profound satisfaction felt by your friends from South America on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly at its eighteenth se...

1. Madam President, on behalf of my Government I warmly welcome your election to preside over the General Assembly’s deliberations at its twenty-fourth session....

156. This is the first time I have taken part in the general debate of the Assembly since my appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation by Ge...

I would like at the outset to extend sincere congratulations to Mr. Opertti on his election as President of this new session, the fifty-third session of the Gen...

On behalf of the delegation of the great Libyan Arab People's Jamahiriya, I wish to extend to Ambassador Shihabi my most sincere congratulations upon his elect...

103. On behalf of our delegation I should like to congratulate you, Sir, upon your election to the high post of President of the thirty-third session of the Ge...

Sir, in electing you to the presidency of this thirtieth session, our Assembly wished to pay a tribute to your eminent statesmanlike qualities and, above all, ...

57. First, Mr. President, I should like to associate.my country very sincerely with the tributes, offered by all those who have spoken before me, on the occ...

148. I am happy to have this opportunity to speak in this Assembly as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of my country, and I would immediately wish...

Speaking for the first time from this rostrum as the representative of a country whose policy is profoundly attached to the noble principles of dialog and toler...

The general debate in which we are now engaged serves many purposes. Above all it gives the Governments of all Member States, great and small, an opportunity to...

257. The delegation of the Mongolian People's Republic offers its sincere congratulations to the President on his unanimous election to the high post of Presid...

115. Madam President, it is a source of satisfaction to me that the unanimous choice for the exalted office of President has fallen upon you, whose smiling auth...

I should like, at the outset to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Stoyan Ganev, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, on his unanimous electio...