Speeches by president

It is my great honour and pleasure to participate in the general debate of the Assembly on behalf of the people and Government of Tuvalu. As Tuvalu will commem...

President, may I be permitted first of all, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Niger, to convey to you warm congratulations on the confidence placed...

115. Madam President, it is a source of satisfaction to me that the unanimous choice for the exalted office of President has fallen upon you, whose smiling auth...

It is a great honour and privilege for me to address the Assembly for the first time at the beginning of my tenure as President of the Republic of Paraguay. Par...

I would like to congratulate His Excellency, the Foreign Minister of Saint Lucia, upon his assumption of the Presidency of the General Assembly, and wish him m...

129. Mr. President, in offering you my Government's warm congratulations on your unanimous election as President, I am not merely doing what ritual demands; I a...

Sixty years ago, our predecessors, having adopted the United Nations Charter, made sure that the United Nations immediately got down to work. We need to act now...

Allow me, first of all, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. Secondly, allow me to express the profou...

His Excellency President of the UN General Assembly, His Excellency UN Secretary-General, Excellencies, Leaders of UN Member Countries. The world community look...

Mr. Castro stated that the election of General Romulo, head of the Philippine delegation, as President of the General Assembly pointed to an advance of that dem...

127. Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Japan, I wish to express to you our heartiest congratulations on your election as President of the General...

I should like, first of all, to extend my sincere congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the forty-seventh session of th...

The international community stands at a crossroads. The decade starting in 2020 will either be remembered in history as a turning point or as the moment when mu...

I congratulate Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. I also commend her predecessor, ...

We are proud that Foreign Minister Dante Caputo of Argentina is presiding over the General Assembly- Argentina and Ecuador are States linked by brotherly ties ...

I should like to extend to the President the warm and sincere congratulations of the delegation of Benin on his election to the presidency of the thirty-first s...

1. Mr President, my delegation has already extended to you from this rostrum its warm congratulations on your election as President of this session of the Gen...

156. All the speakers who have preceded me to this rostrum have extended to the President of the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly their congratulat...

233. Mr. President, may I first express you how joyfully the Government and people of Cuba welcome the entry of triumphant, united and socialist Viet Nam to ...

I bring warm greetings from the people of Kiribati, on whose behalf I am privileged to address this body once again. I join with those who have gone before me ...