Speeches by Permanent Representative

I am honoured to address the General Assembly today at the beginning of its forty-fourth session. I should like to congratulate Joseph Garba of Nigeria, a dist...

First of all I wish to thank the President of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, His Excellency Mr. Han Seung-soo, for the masterful way in which...

In the name of God the Merciful and the Compassionate, May God bless the most honourable of Messengers, Mr. President, Your Majesties, Excellencies, Secretary-G...

Mr. President, first of all I should like to express to you my warmest congratulations upon your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. The great t...

The international community is meeting once again, assembling the great diversity of the nations which are its members, to consider the state of the world and ...

Mr. President, first of all permit me to extend to you the most heartfelt congratulations of the Austrian, delegation. We are, together with all the other deleg...

There can be no peace while poverty, especially extreme poverty, exists. Peace is not just about the absence of war or conflict. Rather, is is about managing an...

I wish to express my sincere condolences to the Government and the citizens of Dominica and the Caribbean region, who are suffering from the destruction caused ...

It is only right to begin by thanking the outgoing President, Minister Amara Essy, who has done so much for our Organization during the past year, and by congra...

Let me begin by offering my congratulations to you, Madam President. We would also like to thank former Assembly President Jan Eliasson for his able leadersh...

I begin by congratulating Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalaifa on her assumption of the office of President of the General Assembly. We have full confidence in her an...

It is with particular pleasure that my delegation joins in the congratulations expressed to the Permanent Representative of Spain, Ambassador Don Jaime de Pinie...

It is my pleasure to take this opportunity to congratulate the President of this session, who is the Permanent Representative of our sister State of Qatar, f...

It is a pleasure and an honour for me to take the floor today, on the anniversary of my country’s accession to the United Nations, to share Chad’s perspectives ...

The sixty- ninth session offers us a theme that invites us to deepen exchanges on the development model that we want for the world post-2015. The theme, “Del...

At the outset, I am pleased to congratulate Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Permanent Representative of the sisterly State of Nigeria, on assuming the presidency of...

On behalf of the Liechtenstein Government, I should like to congratulate the President on his election to preside over the fifty-second session of the General ...

At the outset, it is my pleasure to express my warmest congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres on his reappointment to a second term as Secretary...

I participate in this debate of the General Assembly in our dual position as President in Office of the African Union and President of the Republic of Equato...

I believe that the natural disaster of such terrible extent that has just afflicted Mexico has moved each and everyone of us here. I would therefore like to joi...