Speeches by President

It gives me great pleasure to join in the warm congratulations to Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa upon her assumption of the office of President of the Gener...

In common with the speakers preceding me, I should like to congratulate you upon your election to the presidency of the fifty-first session of the General Asse...

It is my distinct honour to address the Assembly on behalf of the Government and people of Belize. I wish to congratulate Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as Pr...

I have the special pleasure today to extend to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the General Assembly, my congratulations on his excellent work in presi...

We meet today as the end a year that began with a crisis. The United Nations confronted that crisis and resolved it. Standing tall in the midst of that crisis,...

I should like first to congratulate the President on his election and the Assembly on having placed him in that high office. For me, it will be a particular pri...

Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. I am convinced that your work in that...

I wish to begin by congratulating my colleague Mr. Stoyan Ganev on his election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. He can rest assured t...

It is my pleasure to congratulate Mr. Razali Ismail on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session, and to congratulate h...

On behalf of the Lesotho delegation, and on my own account, I wish first and foremost, to congratulate you. Sir, on your election as President of the forty-se...

I would like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session, and to wish you succ...

It is a great honor for me to address the Assembly on behalf oFrance. The French Government is pleased, Sir, that the General Assembly is meeting this year unde...

Allow me to extend my congratulations to Mr. D’Escoto Brockmann on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. I wish ...

In 1989, the year in which the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war came to an end, there were 159 Member States represented in this Hall. Today, three years lat...

Since Luxembourg is President of the Council of Ministers of the European Community and the Political Cooperation Council for the second half of this year, I h...

Allow me to begin by conveying my vigorous condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks in Kenya, Pakistan and Iraq, which killed scores of innocent people. ...

It is my pleasure at the outset to congratulate Mr. Joseph Deiss sincerely on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. A...

I would like to congratulate Mr. Joseph Deiss on his election to the prestigious post of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session and to ...

Mr. President, first of all I should like to congratulate you most sincerely on your election to the highest office in the United Nations and to commend you on...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election. You can count on the continued support of the Brazilian delegation. I am also ...