Speeches by President

9387 speeches found

Togo

TGO
1968
Session 23
Mr. HUNLEDE

2. Before giving this Assembly my Government’s views on the specific problems which are causing concern to the United Nations, I should first like to join previ...

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Czechoslovakia

CSK
1986
Session 41
Mr. CHNOOPEK

I should like to congratulate Mr. Choudhury on his election to the presidency of the forty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly and to wish him ...

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Madagascar

MDG
2005
Session 60
Marc Ravalomanana

No one here took part in the first General Assembly in 1945. We can only imagine how at the end of the Second World War men and women full of hope were prompted...

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Nicaragua

NIC
2003
Session 58
Enrique Bolaños Geyer

I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly. I would also like to take this opport...

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Liberia

LBR
1946
Session 1
Mr. Cassell

I give you the greetings of the Government and people of Liberia. In particular, I give you greetings from William V. S. Tubman, our beloved President, whose pr...

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Netherlands

NLD
1977
Session 32
VAN DER STOEL

137. This session of the General Assembly opens under circumstances clouded in uncertainty and fraught with persistent dangers to world peace. There is cause ...

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Hungary

HUN
2004
Session 59
Mr. Brodi

I would like to take this opportunity to extend to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-nint...

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Nepal

NPL
1986
Session 41
Mr. UPADBYAYA

I have the honor to convey to you, and through you to the members of this Assembly, greetings from my Sovereign, His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikran Shah Dev, ...

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Austria

AUT
1998
Session 53
Wolfgang Schüssel

I have the honour and privilege to speak on behalf of the European Union. In this capacity I would like to extend my warm and sincere congratulations to you, Si...

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Czech Republic

CZE
2023
Session 78
Petr Pavel

It is a pleasure and a humbling experience to address this audience for the first time. This forum carries great responsibility for the shape of humankind’s fut...

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

VCT
1997
Session 52
Alpian R. O. Allen

I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your unanimous election. I am confident that under your leadership this session of the General Assembly is well p...

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Sweden

SWE
1982
Session 37
BODSTROM

I should like first of all to congratulate the President on his election to his office for this session of the General Assembly. I am convinced that, with hi...

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Israel

ISR
1965
Session 20
Mrs. MEIR

66. Mr. President, coming to the Assembly from Jerusalem, it gives me particular pleasure to join in the congratulations which have been extended to you on your...

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France

FRA
1953
Session 8
Mr. Maurice Schumann

48. Just a few months ago, when some signs appeared of a lessening of the tension in Europe and therefore in the world, two voices were raised, on either side o...

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

RUS
1974
Session 29
Mr. Gromyko

Mr. President, on behalf of the Soviet delegation, I should like to congratulate you upon your election to the important post of President of the twenty-ninth s...

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Hungary

HUN
2005
Session 60
Ferenc Somogyi

Let me start by extending to the President my sincere congratulations on his election to the presidency of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. I can a...

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

KNA
2002
Session 57
Timothy Harris

Allow me first to salute fellow leaders, whose tireless work and 26 timeless commitment within and beyond the halls of the United Nations help shape a more se...

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Republic of North Macedonia

MKD
2020
Session 75
Mr. Stevo Pensarovski

Distinguished President of the United Nations General Assembly, Distinguished Secretary-General of the United Nations, Esteemed Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlem...

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Republic of North Macedonia

MKD
2019
Session 74
Mr. Zoran Zaev

My country has been a Member of the United Nations since 1993. Yet today I address the General Assembly for the first time as the representative of the Republic...

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San Marino

SMR
2013
Session 68
Pasquale Valentini

On behalf of the Government of San Marino, I wish to congratulate His Excellency Mr. John Ashe on his election as President of the of the General Assembly at...

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