Speeches by President

 Your country, Mr. President, the Federal Republic of Germany, and mine, Botswana, enjoy very cordial relations. Through our diplomatic and other relations and...

I should like first to extend warm congratulations to Mr. Razali Ismail on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session. W...

75. Mr. President, it affords great satisfaction to my delegation that a distinguished son of Africa has been chosen to preside over the proceedings of this ses...

On behalf of my Government, and on my own behalf, I wish to express to you, Mr. President, our sincere and cordial congratulations on your election. Under your ...

176. The Australian delegation joins with others in expressing congratulations to our President on his appointment, and good wishes to him during his term of se...

 288. At the outset, I wish to reaffirm the faith of the Government and people of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the principles and ideals...

133. I should like to borrow a vivid metaphor used by that great man Churchill to describe the role of small countries. Among the background material to the Yal...

186. I should like first of all to address to you, Mr. President, my warmest greetings on your election to the presidency of the thirty-third session of the Ge...

I congratulate the countries of Africa and the distinguished Mr. Philemon Yang on his election as President of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly. Let ...

At the outset, Sir, I wish to congratulate you on your election as President of the Genera] Assembly of the thirty-seventh session. My delegation is pleased ...

I have real pleasure in extending, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Haiti and in my own name, warm congratulations to Ambassador Peter Thomson on ...

160. I should like, on behalf of the Sierra Leone delegation, to proffer through you, Sir, our warmest congratulations to Mr. Lievano on his election as Presid...

79. Mr. President, the Tunisian delegation Is highly gratified that you are to conduct the proceedings of the twenty-second session of the General Assembly, We ...

Brazil applauds your election, Sir, to preside over the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Your personal political experience an...

Mr. President, let me begin by congratulating you, as many others have done before me, on your election to the high office of President of the Assembly. This is...

134. Mr. President, permit me to congratulate you on your election to the high post of President of the nineteenth session of the General Assembly of the United...

The statements delivered during this session’s general debate confirm that international relations are now being conducted in a complex and controversial period...

May I first, on behalf of the people and Government of the Republic of Cuba and on my own behalf, express our warmest congratulations to Major General Joseph N...

I should like to depart slightly from protocol and start my statement by speaking about a humble woman, a Colombian named María Zabala, who has to bear the ...

1. Permit me first of all, on behalf of my Government and the Salvadorian delegation as well as on my own behalf, to congratulate the President on having been e...