Speeches by President

161. Mr, President, please accept my congratulations on your election to the high office of President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly. We ...

The United Nations was born after the Second World War out of a global consensus on the need to maintain international peace and security and to promote friendl...

Panama, a country which has excellent relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, has sincerely welcomed the election of Mr. von Wechmar to the presidency ...

I come before this highest forum of the United Nations as the representative of the Government of Guatemala and of the President of the Republic, Alejandro Mald...

First and foremost, I would like to convey to the Assembly greetings from Mr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, who, owi...

Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your election as President of this fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. My delegation pledges its...

First of all, I thank God and the Virgin Mary for making it possible for us to gather here, and I ask them to enlighten the work of this session. I would like t...

**• Mr António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations** **• Mr Philémon Yunji Yang, President of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Ass...

I am pleased to convey my congratulations to Ambassador Samuel Insanally, the Permanent Representative of Guyana and a distinguished member of our Latin America...

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. The path to peace must be walked with patience. In order to achieve any purpose with othe...

Distinguished Mr. President, Your Excellencies, Honorable Delegates, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Philémon Yan...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate our brother Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly. I am fully c...

As a Vice- President at this session, Senegal, through me, expresses to the President its heartfelt congratulations on his election to the presidency of the Ge...

I bring to the General Assembly greetings from my President, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, who would have loved to be h...

President of the General Assembly, Heads of State and Government and Heads of Delegation, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Distinguished delegates, Ladi...

It is a distinct honour for me, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, and the people of the Kingdom of Tonga, to address the United Nations General Assembly, f...

Fourteen years ago, in this very Hall, the international community, in a promising move, pledged to attain a series of common goals by 2015, essentially, to ...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Treki on his election to the high post of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and w...

It is a great honour for me to come to this rostrum to speak on behalf of the people and Government of Brazil. I bring the greetings of President Lula. Wi...

62. Mr. President, will you allow me, first of all, to convey to you the warm felicitations of the Philippine delegation on your election as President of the ni...