Speeches by Pope

33. Latin America rejoices. It is its turn to have the presidency of the General Assembly and you, Sir, a Colombian personality of singular merit, were unanimo...

From this rostrum, many great leaders of nations have spoken with great eloquence and conviction on matters of great import to their own nation in particular an...

I begin this speech with mixed emotions — happiness over the election of our friend Julian Hunte — Minister of our sister country in the Caribbean, Saint Lucia ...

On behalf of President Tommy Esang Remengesau Jr., President of the Republic of Palau, I have the honour to make the following remarks before the General Assemb...

1. I gladly associate myself with previous distinguished speakers in congratulating His Excellency Professor Fanfani, who unfortunately is unable to be with...

1. The delegation of the Rwandese Republic associates itself with previous speakers in congratulating the President on his election to preside over this twenty-...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate Mr. Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. I am confident that the ...

I want to invite us all to take a short journey down memory lane and recall that in 1946 the United Nations General Assembly, convened for the very first tim...

Mr. Secretary-General, Mr. President, members of this honourable Assembly: Argentina was one of the founding States of the United Nations 75 years ago. Today, w...

 Forty-five years ago, the United Nations was formed to turn guns into ploughshares. Today, in Nicaragua, we are turning this great dream of the United Nations...

I bring to the representatives and the United Nations the warm greetings of the people of Mauritius. 3. May I, on behalf of the Government and people of Maurit...

60. On behalf of the delegation of Chad, I should like to express to Mr. Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan, ...

It is an honour for me to represent Italy before this General Assembly of the United Nations — an honour that is. however, not light like privilege, but heavy l...

I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session. You have set in...

This is the second year that I have come to the General Assembly as President of Panama, representing a peaceful, healthy and noble people, to whom I send my gr...

At a time when the United Nations is going through a painful crisis of growth, when relations between States are becoming more and more complex and presenting ...

Today, I am honoured as I congratulate you, Madam President, on your election as the first Arab woman to ever preside over this body, hoping that this herald...

A few weeks ago, a young Muslim lawyer in Singapore told me about a recent experience he had had in an East Asian airport. Unlike others holding Singaporean pas...

It is with the utmost pleasure that I address the Organization today. It is a privilege for me to take the floor for the first time in the General Assembly, par...

North Korea has now openly shown itself to be a threat to peace. How must we respond? The raison d’être of the United Nations is now being seriously challenged....