Speeches by president

73. Mr. President, the Republic of Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Madagascar enjoy very close relations, and therefore you will understand the special sa...

It is an honour for me to speak before the General Assembly on behalf of France. I do so knowing how important our common Assembly is. this Assembly of all our ...

93. Mr. President, I should first of all like to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the Assembly. We count it a good fortune of this Assembl...

132. Mr. President, it is a special pleasure for me. as Foreign Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Peru, to congratulate you on your election to the ...

128. Mr. President, permit me to congratulate you on your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. My delegation is convinced that,...

As a founding Member of the United Nations, Guatemala would like to reaffirm, before the General Assembly, its faith in and commitment to human rights and funda...

56. It is indeed a great pleasure and honour for me to extend the congratulations of my Government to Mr. Arenales on his attainment of the high office of Presi...

As the general debate opens, I have the honour and sincere pleasure of conveying to you, Sir, the first expressions of congratulations on your election to the ...

At the outset, it is with pleasure that I extend, on behalf of the Government and people of the State of Kuwait, our sincere congratulations to Mr. Ashe and ...

I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the high office of President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly and assure you of Sri Lanka’s ful...

Let me first offer my delegation’s congratulations to Ambassador Insanally of Guyana on his election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth se...

3. Mr. President, let my first words be of congratulation to you on behalf of the Brazilian Government and in my own name, on your unanimous election as Presid...

On behalf of the delegation of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, I should like to congratulate Mr. Humayun Rasheed Choudhury on his election to the presidency of the ...

44. Mr. President, may I be allowed, at the outset, to express the deepest pleasure of the Italian delegation at seeing you preside over this twenty-eighth se...

Please allow me to extend to you, Sir, on behalf of the delegation of Eritrea, warm congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly ...

Every year, the United Nations channels billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance. It also sets the global agenda on key policy issues from development to ...

Seventy years ago, on the still smoking ruins of the Second World War, the United Nations was born, with the purpose of maintaining international peace and secu...

I congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. You can be assured of Jamaica’s fullest support ...

It is an honour to extend on behalf of the delegation of Costa Rica our warm congratulations to Mr. von Wechmar on his election to the presidency of the thirty...

Mr. President, allow me first to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. It gives me great p...