Speeches by Secretary of State

Mr. President, I should like to start by echoing the congratulations which my colleagues have extended to you on your assumption of office as President of the t...

 Allow me at the outset, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, to extend our warm brotherly felicitations to Mr. Garba of Nigeria on his unanimous ...

75. Mr. President, first I should like to congratulate you on your election to your high and demanding office. The part of the world from which I come could no...

On behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, I extend to you our warmest congratulations on your election to preside over the deliberations of the General ...

140. First of all, let me take this opportunity of extending the very warm felicitations of my delegation to Mr. Belaúnde on his election as President of the fo...

56. Mr. President, as this is my first speech of the present session, allow me to congratulate you, on behalf of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, on ...

1. It is the established practice of the General Assembly to begin the work of each session with a general debate in which it takes stock of the previous year’s...

A surprising current tendency is to crystallize the most complex problems in the simplest terms, in slogans. That is practical; it saves time, a commodity of wh...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election, which attests to the high regard in which the international community holds you and...

Mr. President, in addressing this Assembly for the first time, I am conscious that you have given long and distinguished service to the United Nations. My deleg...

1. Mr. President, may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election to this very high and important office. Your distinguished career as a public...

9. I am very pleased to be able to associate my delegation with the congratulations that have already been addressed to Ambassador Benites on his election to t...

This meeting of our Assembly is faced with an inescapable fact: the grave tension and the anxiety bordering on despair which were a feature of the time when we ...

Rarely have the foundations of this institution been shaken as strongly as in the early hours of 24 February, when various cities throughout Ukraine felt the te...

24. As is customary and as is proper in the general debate, the many important statements made during the last few days from this rostrum have covered a wide ra...

At the outset allow me to convey to Mr. Holkeri our congratulations on his election as President of this session of the General Assembly, expressing our full co...

It will be exactly one year on 12 November next since this Assembly, almost unanimously, admitted the Comoros to membership in the United Nations. 2. These 11 m...

We are fortunate at this time to have Mr. Amerasinghe as President, for his long experience can so significantly assist in guiding our deliberations during this...

36. Mr. President, I would like to join the other speakers who have preceded me by extending to you the heartiest congratulations of the Turkish delegation on y...

It is with great pleasure, Sir, that I congratulate you on your election to the presidency of this General Assembly. This is an expression of esteem for you as...