Speeches by president

On the grand occasion of the general debate of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, I congratulate the new President of the Assembly, Mr. Joseph ...

I come before the General Assembly today from Palestine to sound the alarm concerning the grave dangers of what is happening in Jerusalem, where extremist Israe...

Once again, a woman’s voice is opening the general debate of the General Assembly. For many, we women are “half the sky”. However, we wish to be half the Earth...

225. When this entire Assembly elected you to the high office of President, it was as if every country, from the far corners of the earth, had sent a sprig of l...

It is indeed a great honour and pleasure to participate in this General Assembly debate at its sixty-ninth session on behalf of the Government and people of ...

First of all, I should like to extend my congratulations and those of my delegation to Mr. von Wechmar on his election to the presidency of this thirty-fifth s...

1. I should like at the outset, Sir, to convey to you the greetings and congratulations of the delegation of Peru on your well-deserved election to the presi...

76. Mr. President, in congratulating you upon your well-deserved election as President of this General Assembly, I salute in your person the nations of the Afri...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate Mr. Essy on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session and to wish him every succe...

Mr. President, my delegation warmly congratulates you upon your election to the high office of President of the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly. ...

I bring to you, Mr. President, to Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to all representatives the greetings and best wishes of His Majesty King Birendra and of the ...

The delegation of Panama wishes to join in the very warm congratulations that the President has already received from the speakers who have preceded me. His we...

• Excellency, Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly • Excellency, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations • Excellencies, Heads of ...

I congratulate President Ashe very warmly on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I congratulate also Mr. Vuk ...

Mr. President, on behalf of Cuba, I would like to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly. We are living at a decisive moment...

I wish to begin by congratulating Ambassador Insanally on his election to the high office of the presidency of the General Assembly. He can rest assured that th...

At the eighteenth ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, which was held at Nairobi in June, my ...

75. Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Pakistan, I take pleasure in extending to you our most sincere congratulations on your election to the high of...

On the auspicious occasion of the forty-third session of the General Assembly, I bring the Assembly fraternal greetings from His Majesty King Moshoeshoe II and...

I should like first of all to extend heartfelt greetings, on behalf of the delegation of Paraguay, to the President of this session of the General Assembly. We ...