Speeches by President

At the outset, may I warmly congratulate Mr. Peter Thomson on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. He may rest assure...

I should like at the outset to convey to you, an able, creative and experienced diplomat representing a great country with recognized distinction, my delegatio...

It is a pleasure for me to speak for the first time from the rostrum of the United Nations as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of...

45. Mr. President, since I am speaking for the first time here in this Assembly, by your leave I should like to associate myself fully with the warm congratul...

 His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs, would have liked to be here today to address this Assembly, but compelling reasons rela...

 1. Due to circumstances of national importance, the Prime Minister and Minister for General and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Henck Arron, has been prevented from per...

It is with great pleasure, and a modest measure of pride, that I congratulate you, Sir, on behalf of the Tanzania delegation, upon your assumption of the high ...

At the outset, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Mr. Vuk Jeremić upon his election to serve as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-...

Let me join previous speakers in extending our congratulations to Ambassador Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-se...

Permit me to begin. Sir, by taking this opportunity to convey to you the congratulations of the delegation of the Dominican Republic on your election to the ...

Echoing previous eminent speakers at this rostrum, on behalf of my country, the Union of the Comoros, and on my own behalf, it is a genuine pleasure to addre...

After the signing of the Charter of the United Nations mankind thought the nightmare of the scourge of war had been for ever laid to rest. A new world was open...

A little more than a year ago, we witnessed with great concern the collapse of some of the largest financial institutions of the world’s wealthiest countries...

**Mr President,** **Mr Secretary-General,** **Excellencies,** **Ladies and Gentlemen,** Allow me first to offer my congratulations to His Excellency Mr P...

On behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, I should like first of all to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri on his election as Presid...

Mr. President, my delegation has great pleasure in seeing you presiding over this Assembly. Your country, the United Republic of Tanzania, and mine are neighbo...

Before I begin my statement, I want to express the strongest condemnation of the recent acts of incitement to hatred perpetrated against the faith of the billi...

“[We] will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human righ...

I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-second session. It is a principle of today’s wor...

I should like at the outset to express my sincere gratitude for the honour to speak from this rostrum and to convey, on behalf of the President of Turkmenistan,...