Speeches by President

Mr. President, please allow me to join my colleagues who have preceded me at this rostrum in congratulating you on your election to preside over our present del...

37. The President of the General Assembly at its last session was a scholar and a humanist who gave tone to our debates, and was a lesson and an example to us a...

We are pleased to express our warmest and most sincere congratulations to Mr. Ganev on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at...

108. Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of the Soviet Union I should like to congratulate you on the occasion of your election as President of the thi...

113. It is my great pleasure and privilege at the outset of my statement to tender to you, Sir, my delegation's congratulations on your election as President. O...

First of all I should like to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a renowned and distinguished academician and internationali...

1. It is my privilege to be here for the first time and to come to this rostrum with the signal honour of offering my felicitations to you, Madam, on your elect...

It is a real pleasure and an immense privilege to take the floor before the Assembly at this historic celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the United Na...

I wish to state that it is a signal honor to address the Assembly from this rostrum the highest expression of world thinking where illustrious statesmen from th...

Allow me at the outset to express to Ambassador Insanally my special congratulations on his election to preside over the General Assembly at this important sess...

As I stand before the General Assembly today to make a statement on behalf of my country, the Yemen Arab Republic, I find myself at a loss. Do I congratulate t...

103. Mr. President, it is an honour for a representative of the Republic of Burundi to have been given this opportunity to extend his warm congratulations to Mr...

It is a great satisfaction for Brazil, which has the honour and privilege of opening this debate, to have as the President of this session of the General As...

118. Mr. President, first allow me to congratulate you on behalf of the Yugoslav delegation, on your election to the highest office of our Assembly and to say t...

55. The delegation of the Niger was very grieved to learn this morning of Mr. Fanfani’s accident. Since it is our turn to speak, we should like to take this opp...

Mr. President, I wish to tender, on behalf of the Japanese delegation, our sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the fifteenth session o...

I wish to begin by conveying the warm greetings of His Majesty the King of Bhutan. It is an honour for me to be present in this grand assembly of nations. Gr...

One year ago, here in this Hall, I warned the international community of the threat posed by the spread of international terrorism (see A/70/PV.17). What has ha...

 This forty-fifth session of the General Assembly is being held in a new international setting. The cold war is coming to an end and the arms race is clearly s...

Let me express the Swedish Government’s satisfaction at the election of Ambassador Insanally of Guyana as President of this session of the General Assembly. I s...