Speeches by Prime MInister

The General Assembly stands poised at a vital watershed. It is a time of opportunity and challenge, of promise and uncertainty, of hopes and unfulfilled expec...

At the outset, Mr. President, let me extend to you Sri Lanka’s warmest congratulations on your well-deserved election. We wish you well and have no doubt that y...

150. Mr. President, my delegation has already expressed at this session of the General Assembly our congratulations to you on your election to the Presidency, b...

It is a great honour for me, as Prime Minister of Canada, to 21 06-52988 speak to the Assembly today about the important issues confronting us as Memb...

At the outset, I would like to express my great and profound satisfaction for the recent release of four hostages kidnapped in Iraq, among them a young woman wh...

No one here took part in the first General Assembly in 1945. We can only imagine how at the end of the Second World War men and women full of hope were prompted...

Let me begin, Sir, by paying tribute to your predecessor, Jean Ping, for his extraordinary work — above all on the world summit, but also throughout his year as...

Mr. President, I congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly for this session, and 1 wish Secretary-General Waldheim well as he ...

Praise be to God and may peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, his family and his companions. Mr. President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Ladies and...

125. Now more than ever man is facing the challenge of changing times. Through the concept of Heraclitus "all is flux, nothing is stationary is not a new one, i...

On behalf of the proud nation of the Kingdom of Thailand, I would like to say to the Greta Thunberg generation of the world that we have heard their heartfelt p...

It is a privilege and a great honour for me today to address this unique forum where great and small, powerful and less powerful nations speak with one voice...

This year’s session of the General Assembly comes at a critical time. Over the past few years we have witnessed grave violations of the very principles on which...

It is with great pleasure that I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your unanimous election to preside over the General Assembly at this session. This session ...

176. Mr. President, the delegation of Ceylon and I, personally, are very happy to see you preside over this, the Twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly o...

It is a great honour and privilege for me to be addressing the Assembly for the first time since I took office as President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Fi...

I am greatly honoured to deliver my inaugural address to the General Assembly. Allow me to begin by congratulating the President on his election to oversee the...

160. Allow me at the outset to convey to Mr. Arenales my congratulations and those of my delegation on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at...

I am pleased to be able to address the global community on the first day of the current session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Please accep...

At the outset, allow me to join the previous speakers in expressing my sincere congratulations to His Excellency Joseph Deiss of Switzerland on his election ...