Speeches by President

I wish to congratulate you, Madam, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. It signals the increasing role of women,...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, and the Kingdom of Bahrain on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its ...

A decade ago I was elected the Head of Government of my country. It was 1994, a time of hope for the world and for the Organization of the United Nations. The c...

 Mr. President, today I have the honour of addressing the General Assembly for the first time and I wish to extend greetings to you both personally and on beha...

122. Mr. President, may I first of all, on behalf of the Central African delegation, sincerely congratulate you on your election. I congratulate myself also, be...

I bring you sincere greetings and very best wishes from His Excellency Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. President Koroma reg...

Permit me, on behalf of the Sierra Leone delegation, to extend to you, Mr. President, our warmest fraternal felicitations on your unanimous election to the hig...

At the outset, let me express my sincere felicitations and those of my Government and the people of the Solomon Islands, on your election, Sir, as President of...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Gurirab on his election to preside over this historic session of the General Assembly. It is a tribute to his ri...

130. Mr. President, I am very happy to convey to you my warmest congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, which constitutes j...

Mdm President, Your Excellencies 1 I bring you greetings from a tiny island city state in the heart of Southeast Asia, called Singapore. I think we must ...

Belgium echoes the congratulations that have been extended to Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, on behalf of my Government and myself, our sincerest congratulations on your election to the office ...

I am particularly pleased to extend congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I am inde...

It is a great honour for me to speak from this rostrum for the first time since I took office in January. I would like to congratulate President Jeremić on ass...

Mr. President, the theme that you have chosen for this session of the General Assembly — “Effective responses to global crises: strengthening multilateralism...

I join other countries in congratulating you, Madam, on your assumption of the presidency. We in Singapore pledge our full support to you. The recent war i...

The people of Tuvalu, on whose behalf I have the honour to speak, wish me first of all to convey their warmest greetings to the fifty-eighth session of the Gen...

I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly; it is a sure guarantee of success for the fifty-fourth session. I also wish to t...

 Like many other countries in the developing world, Suriname has been confronted in this decade with falling prices of our main commodities, with difficulti...