Speeches by Pope

Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly. We are especially pleased that the designation went to ...

Mr. President, I would like to express my warmest congratulations to you on your election as President of our prestigious Assembly at its seventieth session. Yo...

I am once again participating in the regular session of the General Assembly to reaffirm our respect, admiration and congratulations to our brother, Mr. Ban Ki-...

2. It is my privilege to convey the warmest congratulations of the Government r d delegation of the Dominican Republic, and my own personal congratulations, t...

The successful outcome of the United Nations Summit to adopt the post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development (resolution 70/1) coincided with the seventieth an...

It is an honour to be here today for the first time to represent the Argentine Republic before the General Assembly. We are living in a time of great global tra...

1. Mr. President, the delegation of Honduras associates itself with the general feeling of this Assembly in expressing to you its sincere congratulations on you...

I should like at the outset, Mr. President, to hail your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. I would also like to ext...

At the outset, I would like to affirm El Salvador’s highest and most decisive commitment to meeting and endorsing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development an...

First, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election as President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. Argentina welcomes the fa...

Let me begin by extending my congratulations to Her Excellency Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa from the Kingdom of Bahrain on the occasion of her election as Presiden...

Your Excellency, Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency, Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellenc...

It gives me pleasure, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, to extend to you, Madam President, and to your fraternal country, the Kingdom ...

With an end to the global crisis finally within reach, it is imperative to make growth and development our first priority today. In the past 10 years, remark...

I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), over which Cuba currently has the honour to preside. I ...

It is indeed a great pleasure to address this General Assembly on the International Day of Peace, in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperat...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate the President of the Assembly at its seventy-fourth session and to thank Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces for her ...

Mr. President of the General Assembly, Mr. Secretary-General, Distinguished delegates, Let me begin by warmly congratulating His Excellency Ambassador Volkan Bo...

I congratulate Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, our Latin American sister, on her election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session....

1. It has become a tradition for heads of delegations, when speaking for the first time in the general debate, to congratulate the President of the General Asse...