Speeches by President

Mr. President, it is with great pleasure that I offer you, on behalf of my delegation and in my own name, my warmest congratulations on the great confidence tha...

1. May I be allowed to come to this rostrum to present my respectful compliments to my friend, the President of the General Assembly, a distinguished statesman ...

 I congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session. Your wide experience and diplomatic skills will no dou...

On taking the floor in this great world forum, I am overwhelmed by respect and awe — respect for the distinguished and able representatives of 100 countries as...

 163. I should like first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly for its thirty-third session. My delegation ...

Mr. President, I offer you on behalf of India our most cordial congratulations on your election as the President of the twenty-seventh session of the General As...

His Excellency Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, has given me the honour of delivering this address to the ...

It is with pleasure and satisfaction that, on my own behalf and on behalf of my delegation, I congratulate his Excellency Mr. Guido de Marco on his unanimous e...

At its eleventh session the General Assembly is facing critical and difficult problems which demand our full attention. We have before us various matters which ...

Mr. President, I would like to express my warmest congratulations to you on your election as President of our prestigious Assembly at its seventieth session. Yo...

Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my great honour to address the General Assembly today. Colleagu...

I congratulate Ambassador María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election as President of the General Assembly. I welcome the fact that, for the first time in hi...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session. You bring to the presidency...

206. At the outset, my delegation would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election as President of the twenty- second session of the General Asse...

104. On behalf of Chile, I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election, which denotes recognition of your ability, your intelligence, your impartiality an...

In 1945, in the aftermath of a war that tore apart all the peoples of the world - a war during which the most basic human rights were violated - a few leading c...

I should like, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. This session might well prove t...

The General Assembly’s annual convening in New York is a world event which, each year, expresses the hope of nations and peoples to find common ground, through ...

Mr. President, I should like first of all to offer you the congratulations of my delegation on your unanimous election to the presidency of the twenty-ninth ses...

110. Mr. President, I should like first to say how glad I am to sit under you as President in this anniversary year. It is particularly appropriate, as we pass...