Speeches by President

I am very honoured to speak to the General Assembly on behalf of the Government of Canada. I recognize that I am doing so on the traditional territory of the Le...

 140. Mr. President, I wish to extend to you my warm congratulations on your election to the presidency of the thirty-third session of the General Assembly ...

May I, on behalf of my delegation and the Government and people of the Republic of Sierra Leone, add my vice to those before me to offer warm felicitations on y...

On behalf of His Excellency President Adama Barrow and the people of the Gambia, let me express our sincere gratitude to Her Excellency Ms. Maria Fernanda Espin...

I bring greetings from Jerusalem, the city in which the Jewish people’s hopes and prayers for peace for all of humanity have echoed throughout the ages. Thirty-...

At this forty-second session of the General Assembly, it is fortunate that the United Nations has honoured you. Sir, by electing you President. Your election, ...

Allow me to congratulate Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session. I wish him every success i...

I extend my warmest congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your election. I am sure you will guide us well, and we look forward to working with you. I would...

Mr. President, your election to guide the work of this session honours you and gives us cause for rejoicing for, given your qualities as an experienced diploma...

If I have the privilege and honour to speak today on behalf of the Malagasy people before the General Assembly, it is because Madagascar has gone through a ...

At the outset, Sir, I should like to warmly congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session, which und...

My delegation would like to begin by congratulating Mr. Thomson on his well-deserved election as President of the General Assembly at this session, and I would ...

May I begin by warmly congratulating you. Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-first session. It is indeed a great pleasure t...

First, I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth sess...

114. On behalf of the Republic of Gabon I wish to pay the highest tribute to Mr. Dag Hammarskjold, who died on our African soil so that the independence of an...

At the outset, I pay sincere tribute to the President on his election to preside over the Assembly at the fifty-eighth session, which is being held in a partic...

I begin by paying a tribute to the new Secretary-General, who has brought great distinction to the office during his brief tenure. Dag Hammarskjold once told...

Mr. President, at the outset I should like to associate myself with the speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum and tell you how pleased the delegation of...

I want to begin by congratulating Mr. Miroslav Lajčák on assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy- second session and by wishing him every...

It is indeed a great pleasure to address this General Assembly on the International Day of Peace, in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperat...