Speeches by President

I would first like to express my great appreciation for the efforts of Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon to promote and achieve peace, security and prosperity in...

1. Madam President, allow me to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the high office of President of this Assembly. Your election reflects the impor...

 The current international backdrop to this session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, which was founded in 1945 out of the ashes of the Second Wor...

Mr. President, I am pleased on behalf of the people and the Government of Guatemala to offer you our most cordial congratulations on your election as President ...

Allow me to begin, Sir, by congratulating you on your election to preside over the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. My congratulations go likewis...

Mr. President, I should like to congratulate you on your election to the demanding office of President of the thirty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I w...

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....

I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session. It is our expectation that your able...

On behalf of the Government and people of Togo, I should like to convey very sincere condolences and feelings of compassion to the people and the Government of ...

Mr. President, I should like, at the outset, to express to you my heartfelt congratulations on your unanimous election as President of this session. I am convin...

At the outset, I would like to extend our congratulations to you, Madam President, and your friendly nation on your election to preside over the General Assembl...

I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Francisco Guterres Lu-Olo, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. “At ...

On this solemn occasion allow me first to convey to you, Sir, on behalf of the Cambodian delegation, heartfelt congratulations on your election to the presidenc...

I have the honour to convey to the President of the General Assembly and to all representatives the warm greetings and good wishes of His Majesty Jigme Singye ...

Everything in life is cause and effect, and every effect has a cause. Human beings tend to look to the past to find similarities in order to predict the future,...

I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, and to express Portugal's confidence in your high ...

It is my pleasant duty to offer you, Mr. President, on behalf of the Gabon delegation and on my own behalf, our warm congratulations on your illustrious electio...

I should like at the outset to extend my congratulations to Mr. Holkeri on his election to preside over the work of this important fifty-fifth session. It is in...

 May I join my colleagues in congratulating the President on his election to the high office he now holds. He is even newer to his job than I am to mine. But w...

On behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf I would like to extend our warm congratulations to President Eliasson on his election to the presidency of the G...