Speeches by president

4. This has been an exceptionally active year, with three special sessions of the General Assembly, a heavy calendar of conferences and an increasing range of ...

Saudi Arabia solemnly acclaims this meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations in the New World, and hopes that it will in fact mark the advent of a ...

It is a great honour for me today to address the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, on behalf of the Government of Leonel Fernández and of the people ...

I would like at the outset to congratulate Mr. Jan Kavan on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session and to assure h...

 1. It is our privilege to have as our President at this Assembly an eminent personality in the world of Latin American thought and politics, the Minister for ...

I would like, on behalf of Bulgaria, to offer my sincere congratulations to Mr. Jean Ping on his assumption of the presidency ó a position of great responsibili...

It is with a deep sense of pleasure that I venture to associate myself with the many well-merited complimentary statements, as my sources have indicated, mad...

On behalf of my delegation, I have the honour to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, o...

May I, Mr. President, add the warmest congratulations of my Government and delegation to the many congratulations extended to you from this rostrum on the occa...

 Comrade president, allow me to congratulate you cordially upon your election to the high office of President of the United Nations General Assembly at its for...

We have gathered in New York once again. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at their midpoint, facing mounting obstacles. To our dismay, the aggressio...

Let me begin by expressing my deepest sympathy and solidarity with the people and the Government of Mexico following the devastating earthquake that has taken t...

79. Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to express to you my warmest congratulations and those of my Government and delegation upon your unanimous elec...

The delegation of Bolivia is happy to associate itself with the general satisfaction at the unanimous and well-deserved election of Mr. Slim as President of th...

The practice of beginning sessions of the Assembly with a general debate should be recognized as affording the Governments represented here an opportunity to st...

78. Mr. President, on behalf of the Turkish Government and myself, may I offer you our heartiest congratulations on your election as President of the General As...

I bring warm greetings, Sir, from the Government and people of Solomon Islands, and I wish to congratulate the President on his election to lead the General Ass...

I would like to say, Mr. President, that I take special pleasure in seeing you preside over this Millennium Assembly session. I wish to assure you of my deleg...

When I assumed the presidency of my country less than two months ago, I recalled that in the tradition of the Aymara, an indigenous people of the Republic of Bo...

Allow me, Sir, to express the pleasure of the Republic of Croatia at your election to the post of President of the General Assembly. At this crucial moment in t...