Speeches by Prime MInister

My country and my delegation wish to take this opportunity to extend to Mr. Didier Opertti our warmest congratulations on his election to the presidency of the ...

On behalf of the United Kingdom, let me begin by paying tribute to an outstanding leader of the United Nations, who, sadly, passed away this summer. Kofi Annan ...

I come before the Assembly today in the name of my late wife, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, as a victim of terrorism representing a nation that is a victi...

It is my pleasure to congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly. The Barbados delegation s...

The outstanding election of the representative of Poland as President of this year's session of the General Assembly fills us with joy. We believe that at one a...

My delegation wishes to associate itself with the compliments paid to you, Mr. President, on your election to your high office, and we pledge to you our conti...

It gives me pleasure to address the General Assembly on behalf of Iraq, a founding Member of the United Nations. I wish the General Assembly every success at it...

For the Haitian delegation, the assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly by, for the first time ever, a representative of the Caribbean is a source ...

I welcome this opportunity to offer the President my sincere congratulations on his election to his high office. Knowing his competence, experience and integrit...

I am honoured to address this eminent gathering of nations seized with advancing the international agenda towards the realization of international peace, su...

Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years old, to a State of their own in their ancestral homel...

I would like to begin by congratulating His Excellency Mr. Sam Kutesa, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda, on his election to the presidency of th...

Twelve years ago, I bade farewell to the Assembly, as I had decided to retire from active politics thereafter, which I did. However, destiny and the wish of the...

His Highness Prince Souvanna Phouma, our First Minister, detained by his many obligations, having been unable to come this year to the rostrum to plead the caus...

In another two weeks we will be commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this Organization. We shall do so with much ceremony. I would hope, however, that we w...

Pressure of work forced Mr. Ismail Fahmy, head of the Egyptian delegation and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, to stay in Cairo, and he h...

May I at the outset extend to you, Sir, my own and my country’s warmest congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-...

It is a great pleasure for me to address and greet the General Assembly once again from this rostrum in my capacity as Prime Minister of Turkey on the occasi...

It is an honour to address the opening of the sixty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly. First of all, allow me to begin with a moment of silence i...

First of all, I should like to extend to the President of the General Assembly at this forty-eighth session my sincere congratulations on his election. He was u...