Speeches by president

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, I would like, first of all, to congratulate you on your election to ...

): It is not to follow a customary practice but rather to express a real feeling that I wish to congratulate you on your election, Mr. President. The unanimous...

I should like first, following the example of previous speakers, to address my warmest congratulations to our President, Sir Leslie Munro, on his unanimous elec...

I wish to convey my sincere congratulations to President Jeremić on his election to guide and oversee the important work of the General Assembly at this sessio...

It is with great pleasure that I extend to you, Mr. President, our warmest felicitations on your election. I also congratulate your predecessor, His Excellency...

It is my privilege and honour to address the fifty-third session of the General Assembly on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 12 At the outset I would like to...

I should like at the outset to express my delegation's satisfaction and pleasure at your election, Sir, to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-...

32. Mr. President, it is a great pleasure for me and my delegation to join in the warm congratulations expressed to you on your election as President of th...

 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 ...

First of all, I would like to align myself with the statement made by the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman van Rompuy, on behalf of the European...

Let me at the outset commend you, Sir, on your unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. I pledge my delegation’s s...

At the outset permit me to congratulate you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, and to e...

The fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly affords me the special privilege, honour and pleasure of congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the of...

23. Mr. President, the Tanzanian delegation is very happy to see you preside over the deliberations of the thirty-second session of the United Nations General...

1. I hope 1 am not too much mistaken if I say that it has been a matter of conscience in order, as it were, to justify the trip to New York that in previous ye...

President of the General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, Excellencies, Heads of State and Permanent Represen...

243. Mr. President, permit me to express to you on behalf of the delegation of Oman our whole-hearted satisfaction at your election to the high office of Presi...

96. First of all, I wish to express the satisfaction of the Cuban delegation at the election of Mr. Gaston Thorn to preside over the thirtieth session of the ...

Allow me, Sir, to add my congratulations to all those already extended to you on the occasion of your election as President of the General Assembly at its thir...

Allow me, Madam, to add my heartiest congratulations to you on being the third woman in the history of the United Nations to be elected President of the Gene...