Speeches by President

187. Mr. President, my Government would like to congratulate you on your election to the high office of President. Your unanimous election is a tribute to you...

Sophocles said that all mankind is subject to error. We are gathered here in this Assembly in order to limit the scope of those errors and to ensure respect f...

This session of the General Assembly is taking place in the shadow of an unprecedented challenge to humanity posed by international terrorism. We all must seri...

Mr. President, on behalf of the people and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique, I would like to congratulate you upon your election as President of the...

Allow me to convey to Mr. Jeremić our warmest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and to once aga...

With confidence, Iraq is making qualitative steps in the transition to nationhood. Under extremely difficult circumstances, Iraq is pursuing this goal and th...

Mr. President, first I should like to extend my warmest congratulations to you upon your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly. Your long...

Owing to the somewhat special circumstances in which the Republic of Mali was admitted to the United Nations, our delegation was unable at an earlier stage to c...

55. May I, to begin with, convey to the outgoing President my delegation’s feelings of admiration and gratitude. Mr. Quaison-Sackey has had perhaps the most dif...

Last year in this Assembly I expressed unease over the dark clouds gathering on the international horizon and detected early warning signals of a new round of ...

143. My Government and the Panamanian delegation are deeply gratified by the election of Mr. Abdul Rahman Pazhwak to preside over the twenty-first session,...

It is a privilege for me to be participating once again in the work of the General Assembly, and it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, Sir, the congratu...

It is a great honour for me to address this great Assembly in my capacity as President of the Republic of Paraguay. I take this opportunity to express my deepe...

I have the singular honour of reading the statement of His Excellency Mr. Al Hadji Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh, the President of the Republic of the Gambia, who would ...

To begin, I would sincerely like to congratulate you on your election to this very important and difficult position as President of the Assembly and I wish you...

First of all, I would like to thank the outgoing President of the General Assembly, Mr. Han Seung-soo, for the superb manner in which he led the work of the fi...

Mr President of the General Assembly, Ladies and Gentlemen, Heads of State and Government, Ministers, Ambassadors, I speak here on behalf of a country that...

I wish to congratulate the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on his election. As one of the Vice-Presidents at this session, we as...

The United Nations is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Today, it is up to us to take stock of its progress and its successes, as well as its and shortcomin...

It is a welcome tradition in each session of the General Assembly to begin policy statements by paying a tribute to the President of the General Assembly and o...