Speeches by President

I am honoured to address the General Assembly. Speaking on behalf of the people and the Government of Tuvalu, I extend Tuvalu’s greetings to the Assembly at it...

It is a great honour for me to be addressing the Assembly today. It is my pleasant task, Mr. President, to offer you Seychelles' congratulations on your electi...

It gives me great pleasure to have the privilege of addressing this august body. At the very outset, may I avail myself of this opportunity to extend to the Pre...

My opening words must be addressed to the valiant people of Angola, whose great sufferings on this sad occasion we share. I refer to the untimely death of Pres...

It gives me pleasure to congratulate Mr. Joseph Deiss on his election to the presidency at this session and to wish him every success in fulfilling his impor...

121. Mr. President, in the name of my Government and of the delegation of Panama and on my own behalf, I have the greatest pleasure in congratulating you most w...

 On behalf of the Government of the Dominican Republic and the allegation of which I am Chairman, I have pleasure, Sir, in asking you to convey to Mr. Dante Ca...

On behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. Ping, on your election as Preside...

I come from one of the three most beautiful countries on Earth. There is an explosion of life there — thousands of multicoloured species in the seas, skies and ...

140. There can be no more pleasant duty for me than to extend to Mr. Thorn my congratulations and those of the Algerian delegation on his assumption of the pr...

Mr. President, I should like immediately to say what a pleasure it is for me, representing my country here, to sit under your chairmanship. We are confident tha...

The delegation of Uruguay would like at the outset to congratulate Mr. Thorn, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, on his election as Presiden...

Let me begin by congratulating Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, and in part...

On behalf of the delegation of the Kingdom of Thailand, I should like to extend to you, Mr. President, our sincere congratulations on your election to the pr...

I take special pleasure in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session. The unanimous ele...

It is an honour and a particular pleasure for me, on behalf of the Albanian delegation and the Albanian people, to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you,...

The delegation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines wishes to offer Mr. Joseph Garba its sincere congratulations on his election to the presidency of the forty-...

It would of course be more appropriate for Prince Souvanna Phouma, our Prime Minister, to head the delegation of Laos to the General Assembly. But Prince Souvan...

1. Each session of the General Assembly is a time when we broaden our perspective and look at the world as a whole. Certainly we cannot escape from our own nat...

First of all permit me to express to the President, on behalf of the Government of Cape. Verde, our heartfelt congratulations on his election to preside over th...