Speeches by President

Mr. President, it is a privilege for me, on behalf of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to congratulate you most warmly on your election as Pres...

Over the Assembly hangs a cloud of uncertainty — indeed, of unease — about the future of multilateralism and of international relations generally. The tragedy ...

Secretary-General Guterres, fellow delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry that circumstance dictates that we cannot be together for this, the 75th annivers...

The 192 Member States gathered here have not yet taken the qualitative leap called for by Woodrow Wilson in 1918 for our international order not to be based ...

90. Madam President, it gives me pleasure to begin my statement by expressing the great gratification of my delegation at your election to the presidency of the...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of this General Assembly. The role of the President in providing overall...

On behalf of the Guatemalan delegation, over which I have the honor to preside, I wish to express to you, Mr. Hollai, congratulations on your unanimous electi...

50 Mr. President, on behalf of Venezuela and of my Government, I sincerely congratulate you on the honor of having been elected President of the General Assembl...

Botswana and Guyana have, since their attainment of independence, both in 1966, been the closest of friends. That is why we have welcomed the election of Ambass...

It surely must be one of the great ironies of our age that this Assembly is being addressed, for the first time in its 49 years’ history, by a South African Hea...

Please allow me to start by conveying to the General Assembly fraternal greetings from Ms. Samia Suluhu Hassan. President of the United Republic of Tanzania, wh...

Before I begin my address, I wish to express to our sister Republic of Honduras the great grief and solidarity of the Government and people of Peru in connexion...

Upper Volta, through me, wishes to express its great satisfaction, Mr. President, at seeing you presiding over this thirty-fourth session of the General Assemb...

At the outset, I would like, on behalf of the delegation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, to congratulate you, Sir, on your well- deserved election to t...

40. Mr. President, on behalf of the Greek delegation, I should like to express to you our pleasure at the fact that the General Assembly is meeting under your p...

On behalf of the delegation of the Kingdom of Thailand, allow me to extend to you, Sir, our warmest congratulations on your election as President of the Gene...

It is a privilege and a great honour for me today to address this unique forum where great and small, powerful and less powerful nations speak with one voice...

1. Mr. KREISKY (Austria): Mr. President, I should like to avail myself of this opportunity to offer you the sincere congratulations of the Austrian delegation o...

Rarely, if ever, in the history of the United Nations has a President of the General Assembly been elected unanimously and without the whimsical aberration of a...

Let me at the very outset extend to Mr. Opertti our warm congratulations upon his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty- third session. We ...