Speeches by president

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Japan, I extend to you, Sir, our warm congratulations on your election as President of the eighteenth session of t...

Mr. President, permit me at the outset to address to you my most sincere congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of this session of the General Ass...

 Sir, I have the honour of extending to you the congratulations and best wishes of the Government and people of Vanuatu on your assumption of the presidency of...

23. Mr. President, allow me, at the very outset of my statement to extend to you my warmest and most sincere congratulations on your election as President of th...

At the outset, on behalf of the Libyan people, it is my pleasure to congratulate the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session on his elect...

I would like to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of General Assembly at the sixty-sixth session, and wish you...

148. Allow me, Mr. President, to extend to you my delegation’s warm congratulations and those of the Uganda Government on your election as President of this As...

“We the peoples of the United Nations, determined ...”. Yes, these are bold and visionary words drafted 70 years ago, providing the United Nations with its sen...

Guillermo Ferrero, the famous writer, in the prologue to his masterly study of the role played by Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna, wrote the following admi...

May I at the outset congratulate Ambassador Insanally on his unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session. His long and r...

It is a great pleasure and, indeed, an honour for me, to convey to the General Assembly the fond greetings of the people of Guinea, its Government and its Presi...

Mr. President, it is with pride that I congratulate you, a representative of Ukraine, on your election to the international community’s highest political post....

Allow me to join previous speakers in congratulating Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-...

In a few weeks’ time, it will be 60 years since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And here we find ourselves at the midpoint in ...

I bring to you, Mr. President, and through you to all representatives the warm greetings and good wishes of His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Allow...

On coming to this rostrum for the first time in the general debate to add my country’s voice to those of all the speakers preceding me, I should like, on behalf...

Mr. President, I should like to offer my sincere congratulations to you, a representative of neutral and non-aligned Malta, which is making active use of its s...

In view of the very lengthy agenda that has been presented to us, several items of which are undoubtedly of grave and pressing international importance calling ...

 I have the honour to convey to you, Sir and through you to the representatives assembled here, greetings from my august Sovereign, His Majesty King Birendra B...

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I have no d...