Speeches by president

 The year that is now drawing to its end has demonstrated the perfectible nature of international life. In a good number of situations which until very recentl...

It is an honour to return once again to this historic setting. May I warmly congratulate His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser. Jordanians well remem...

May I congratulate the President on his new responsibilities and pay tribute to Mr. Freitas do Amaral of Portugal. During last year’s jubilee session, his pers...

Let me at the very outset extend to Ambassador de Pinies of Spain my warmest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly. The Greek Gov...

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and His Peace and Blessings be upon Muhammad and His Pure Ho...

The members of my delegation and I deem it an honor and privilege to take part in the fortieth regular session of the General Assembly, particularly in view of ...

25. It is my privilege to extend to you, Madam President, the cordial and sincere congratulations of the delegation of Burma, and my own personally, on your ele...

On behalf of Ukraine, I congratulate the President on her election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. We support the outlined pr...

On behalf of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Botswana, Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama, allow me at the very outset to join other del...

First of all, I have the pleasure of congratulating you, Sir, on being elected to preside over this session, an honour falling to a Central American for the s...

It is a great pleasure for me to address the representatives here today and to express my congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as President of th...

I bring warm greetings of “iakwe” from the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, on whose behalf I have the honour to address the General Assembly ...

Allow me, Mr. President, to add the voice of the Kingdom of Laos to the chorus of warm congratulations addressed to you from this rostrum. Your election to the ...

I should like to congratulate Mr. Freitas do Amaral on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. We are glad that a representative of Portugal, a ...

We are getting ever closer to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, which was established thanks to victory in the Second World War and our recog...

As some eminent speakers have already said at this rostrum, our sixteenth , session has opened on a note of meditation. We are mourning Mr. Hammarskjold, the S...

Although protocol requires that our statements be brief, it is no matter of routine for Equatorial Guinea to congratulate Mr. Jean Ping, Minister of Foreign Aff...

In a year of frightful tragedy and uncertainty, we were at least fortunate to have the charisma and leadership of Mr. Han Seung-soo, as President of the fifty-...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to join my colleagues in congratulating you on your election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General...

It has been barely two weeks since I initiated in Guatemala an electoral process that will conclude on 14 January, when I will have the honour to bestow the ...