Speeches by Minister for Foreign Affairs

May I first convey to you, Mr. President, our warmest congratulations on your brilliant election to the high office of President of the thirty-fourth session o...

104. I should, first of all, like to convey to you my delegation's congratulations on your election to the high office of the Presidency of the General Assembly...

50. Mr. President, I take pleasure in congratulating you upon your well-deserved election to the presidency of this Assembly, and I should like to take this op...

Mr. President, the thirty- fourth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations is being presided over by a distinguished diplomat whom the whole of Af...

I greet all the citizens of the world who have come here — as they do every year — for this gathering of such great importance for the world. I am very please...

Mr. President, this visit to the United Nations provides me with an opportunity to congratulate you on your well-deserved election by the General Assembly. It i...

1. Mr. President, it is a pleasant duty for my delegation to add its warmest congratulations to those already extended to you, since the opening of the gen...

1. Permit me to take this opportunity, when the People's Republic of Mozambique is for the first time participating in the general debate, to express my apprec...

Colombia, and the delegation which represents it, are particularly gratified by your election as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. We fee...

It is a generally accepted rule that a speaker in the general debate begins by extending his congratulations to the President on his election. This is a rule wi...

47. First of all, Mr. President, allow me to offer you the cordial congratulations of the delegation of the People’s Republic of Albania on your election to the...

 First of all, I wish to congratulate Mr. Slim most cordially and sincerely, on my own behalf and on that of the Libyan delegation, on his election as Preside...

Mr. President, the delegation of Portugal to the United Nations has always had the delegation of Poland as its neighbor on the left. The two delegations have al...

125. The delegation of Ceylon is taking this opportunity of adding its own tribute to the many that have already, in the course of the general debate, been paid...

Mr. President, I should like first of all to convey to you on behalf of my delegation and myself our very sincere congratulations on your election as President ...

Mr. President, in the name of the Syrian Arab delegation and on my own behalf, I am happy to extend to you our warmest felicitations on the occasion of your ele...

First I should like to congratulate the President of the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly on his election. I am quite sure that he will carry o...

I extend to Mr. von Wechmar the warm felicitations of my delegation on his unanimous election to the presidency of the thirty-fifth session of the General Asse...

Pressure of work forced Mr. Ismail Fahmy, head of the Egyptian delegation and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, to stay in Cairo, and he h...

135. Mr. President, I have the honour of addressing the General Assembly on behalf of the European Community and its 10 member States. It is with particular pl...