Speeches by president

Our Organization was founded amid the still glowing embers and simmering tensions of global war. In the shadows of widespread death and destruction, the nations...

Mr. President, I take the greatest pleasure in expressing to you the heartfelt congratulations of the Austrian delegation on your election to the presidency of ...

Before beginning my statement, I should like to express on behalf of my delegation our most sincere congratulations to Mr. Hollai on the occasion of his we...

115. Mr. President, I would like, first of all, to tender to you the warm and sincere felicitations of the delegation of Burma, and my own, on your election as ...

I am Ferdinand Marcos, and I am President of the Republic of the Philippines. I stand here today on behalf of 110 million Filipinos. At this time of crisis and ...

Mr. President, allow me to say a few words of farewell and a few words of welcome. My words of farewell are for the outgoing President of this Assembly, Mr. Tho...

First, Sir, let me express the great pleasure of the Australian delegation at your election as President of the United Nations General Assembly. We are particul...

First of all. I would like to reiterate my warmest congratulations to Mr. Dennis Francis on his election as President of the General Assembly and to express our...

Mr. President, it is my privilege to convey to you the warmest congratulations of the delegation of Pakistan on your unanimous election to the high office of Pr...

It is a great honour for me to address, on behalf of Switzerland, the General Assembly, which this year is presided over by my compatriot, Mr. Joseph Deiss. ...

Allow me to start by expressing my warmest congratulations to the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. I can assure her of my d...

On behalf of President James Michel of Seychelles, leader of one of the smallest nations of this Assembly, I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as Presi...

Mr. President, I would like first of all to associate myself with the previous speakers who have congratulated you on your election to the high office of Presid...

It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege for me to take this opportunity to join all those colleagues who have spoken before me to express the deep satisfaction ...

Allow me, Sir, to add my congratulations on your election to the presidency of this important session. Let me also express to the Secretary-General, Mr. Javier ...

We are meeting at a critical moment. Political, economic and cultural divisions are deepening before our eyes. Conflicts, instability and civil unrest are erupt...

On behalf of His Excellency Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi, and the people of Burundi as a whole, I would first like to offer warm congratulation...

185. First I should like on my own behalf and on behalf of my delegation to express our deep satisfaction at the election by the General Assembly of Mr. Kittani...

At the outset, I would like to cordially congratulate Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of the State of Qatar on his election to the post of President of the Ge...

116. I should like, Sir, on behalf of the Irish delegation, to add my warm congratulations on your election as President of the twenty-sixth session of the Gen...