Speeches by Secretary of State

cToday it is a great honour and privilege for me to deliver my country's address to the United Nations on behalf of the People's Revolutionary Government and t...

60. Mr. President, it is no mere duty but a real pleasure for me, in coming to the rostrum, to pay a tribute to you, the distinguished representative of Ecuado...

The General Assembly has begun its work, as always, by holding a general debate, in which it is customary to draw up the balance of the activities of the United...

39. I would first like to extend to you, Sir, the warmest congratulations of the Australian delegation on your election as President of the General Assembly. T...

Since this is my first public appearance before you, Mr. President, please permit me to congratulate you most warmly and very sincerely on your election to the ...

Let me first welcome the Secretary-General back from his pilgrimage for peace in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands have already fallen in the bloody confl...

Mr. President, in congratulating you and the Assembly upon your election to preside over our deliberations, the thought of your brilliant and most distinguished...

The election of Mr. Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe to preside over this session of the General Assembly has been a source of satisfaction to the delegation of Cos...

37. I should like first to express our warmest congratulations to Ambassador Leopoldo Benites on the occasion of his election to the high office of President o...

129. On behalf of the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, I wish to extend to the President my warm congratulations on his election to the presidency of the ...

Mr. President, having known you for the years you have been representing your country in the United Nations and having known your objective way of thinking and ...

Mr. President, in this year in which Australia has established diplomatic relations with Algeria, it gives me particular pleasure, as head of the Australian Gov...

Mr. President, I should like, on behalf of the Australian delegation, to add my congratulations upon your election as President of this General Assembly session...

160. I should like, on behalf of the Sierra Leone delegation, to proffer through you, Sir, our warmest congratulations to Mr. Lievano on his election as Presid...

1. There is deep anxiety throughout the world at the Illness of His Holiness Pope Pius XII, and I should like to express the respectful wish for his full and sp...

73. Mr. President, we, the small countries, welcome your election to the presidency of the thirtieth session of the General Assembly, since this not only repr...

Mr. President, it is a pleasure for me to congratulate you on your election as the presiding officer of this Assembly. We are convinced by your record of outsta...

 Mr. President, on behalf of the Italian Government I should like to congratulate you most warmly on your election. We are pleased that this honour should have...

1. The Government of Luxembourg has established a record and added luster to the long line of Presidents of the General Assembly by providing the first Prime M...

72. Mr. President, may I be permitted to express to you the sincere congratulations of the Portuguese delegation on your election — a well- deserved tribute to ...