Speeches by President

9387 speeches found

Guatemala

GTM
1962
Session 17
Mr. UNDA MURILLO

First of all, Mr. President, I should like to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. 2. Your profound kno...

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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

UKR
1951
Session 6
Mr. BARANOVSKY

The delegation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic has come here, as it came to the previous session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, anxio...

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Honduras

HND
1991
Session 46
CARIAS ZAPATA

On behalf of the people and the Government of Honduras, I should like to express to the President our congratulations on his election to stewardship over the w...

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Burma

MMR
1976
Session 31
U Hla Phone

Mr. President, permit me first of all to convey to you the warm congratulations of the delegation of Burma on your election as President of this General Assembl...

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Iceland

ISL
2006
Session 61
Mrs. Valgerdur SVERRISDOTTIR

Let me begin by congratulating you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session. I am especially pleased to s...

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Serbia

SRB
2006
Session 61
Mr. Boris Tadic

First, I sincerely thank Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General, for all the efforts he has made throughout his very successful mandate during a time of enorm...

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Madagascar

MDG
2009
Session 64
Andry Nirina Rajoelina

It is with great pleasure that I speak from the rostrum of the United Nations today representing Madagascar, for which it is a particular honour to be able to...

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Mauritania

MRT
2007
Session 62
Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdellahi

I am pleased to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. We have eve...

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Afghanistan

AFG
2005
Session 60
Abdullah Abdullâh

I have the honour to inform the members of the General Assembly of the successful conclusion of the parliamentary and provincial elections that took place in my...

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Syria

SYR
1980
Session 35
Khaddam

Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to extend to you my felicitations on your election as President of the thirty-fifth session of the General Assembly, and to...

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Gambia

GMB
1987
Session 42
SEY

 Allow me, first of all, to extend to you. Sir, my sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the forty-second session of the United Nations...

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Antigua and Barbuda

ATG
1995
Session 50
Mr. Hurst

Forty-five years ago, in 1950, a destructive hurricane battered my island country. It destroyed our small homes, levelled our sugar-cane fields, left death and ...

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Iran

IRN
2013
Session 68
Hassan Rouhani

Mr. President, at the outset, I would like to offer my most sincere felicitations on your deserved election as President of the General Assembly and to seize...

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United Kingdom

GBR
1989
Session 44
Major

 Let me first, if I my, sir, add my congratulations to those you have already received on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. The first co...

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Nepal

NPL
2018
Session 73
Mr. K.P. Sharma Oli

First of all, I extend warm felicitations to the President on her election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its current session. The outgoing Presid...

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Philippines

PHL
1958
Session 13
Mr. Serrano

110. Mr. President, it is both my privilege and my pleasure to congratulate you, on behalf of my delegation, on your election to the presidency of this Assembly...

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Philippines

PHL
2007
Session 62
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,

Mr. President, congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly. Congratulations also to our Secretary-General, His Excellency Ban Ki-mo...

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Argentina

ARG
2010
Session 65
Cristina Fernandez

Most of the speeches we have heard so far today and yesterday have had three main focuses. One of them, without a doubt, is the global economic crisis, its ...

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Kazakhstan

KAZ
2001
Session 56
Madina Jarbussynova

This session that is taking place under extraordinary circumstances, when the whole world is still reeling in shock from the world’s most terrible terrorist at...

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Guatemala

GTM
2021
Session 76
Alejandro Giammattei

It is an honour for me to address the General Assembly for the first time during the general debate of the Assembly’s seventy-sixth session. I would like to tha...

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