Speeches by President

88. I seize this opportunity, on behalf of the Liberian delegation and myself, to extend to you, Mr. President, our heartiest congratulations on your election a...

DISTINGUISHED PRESIDENT VOLKAN BOZKIR! DISTINGUISHED SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES! DISTINGUISHED HEADS OF DELEGATIONS! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! The seventy-f...

I come to the General Assembly straight from the front line of the war on climate change. With physical and emotional difficulty, I have left my bleeding nation...

As I speak from this rostrum today, I can affirm that much progress has been made to achieve inclusion and accessibility; however, as a society we still have mu...

I warmly congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly. You take office at an historic moment for...

At the very outset, allow me to congratulate Mr. Ashe on his well-deserved election to the office of the President of the General Assembly. I assure him of m...

I would like to begin by extending Latvia’s heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Julian Hunte on his appointment as President of the United Nations General Assembl...

Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to join previous speakers in congratulating you warmly on your assumption of office to preside over the General Assemb...

I am honoured by this opportunity to address the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. This great institution plays a vital role in the development pr...

English text furnished by the delegation): It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election to the presidency of the General Ass...

First of all, I wish to extend to Mr. Jan Kavan congratulations on his election as President of the fifty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembl...

I would like to extend to Mr. Dennis Francis the warm congratulations of the Guinean delegation on his outstanding election to the presidency of the General Ass...

I am delighted and happy to be addressing the General Assembly today, and I would like to join my fellow leaders in congratulating the President on his election...

The delegation of Chad echoes previous speakers in warmly congratulating you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the Assembly at its sixty-fifth sess...

1. Mr. President, it is a particular pleasure for me to associate myself with previous speakers in expressing my own satisfaction, as well as that of the Leban...

1. Mr. President, on behalf of the Irish delegation I wish to convey to you our sincere congratulations on your election. In your opening remarks [1560th meetin...

The delegation of which I am chairman has the honour to convey the respects of the Government and people of Guatemala to the General Assembly. 35. The ninth ses...

Mr President Secretary-General Distinguished Delegates Happy 75th anniversary Collectively, the member states of these United Nations are failing in our respons...

The world is off track. That is the uncomfortable truth. Eight years ago. we adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Denmark had just assumed the p...

On 16 September, Bahamian citizens took to the polls to make their voices heard. It is an honour to meet with the General Assembly fewer than 10 days after this...