Speeches by president

This year, we celebrate the centennial of the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice (ICC) and the Permanent Court of Arbitrat...

On behalf of the Holy See, I am pleased to warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth s...

113. Mr. President, I am happy to congratulate you upon your election to your high office at this twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly. The Norwegian p...

I wish to begin by extending my heartfelt congratulations to the President of the General Assembly on his assumption of office at the sixty-eighth session. I...

On behalf of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, I should like to congratulate warmly Ambassador Shihabi on his election to the presidency of...

1. Mr. Vice-President, I should be grateful if you would convey to our President, along with our sincere congratulations, the best wishes of my country, Laos, f...

Let me start by expressing my respect and gratitude to the President of the General Assembly at its previous session, Mr. Srgjan Kerim, whose active involvem...

Mr. President, I should like to convey to you, on behalf of the delegation of the Netherlands and on my own behalf, my congratulations on your election to th...

I should like to begin my statement by extending to the President and to his delegation my congratulations on his election to the Presidency of this session of ...

I am very honoured and very happy to be here today representing my country and my Government. As an Argentine and a Latin American, I cannot begin my statement ...

First of all. Sir, I should like to take this opportunity to offer you my congratulations on your election to the presidency of the forty-second session of the...

I wish to take the opportunity afforded me today to add my bit to those who have congratulated the President on his election to the presidency of the thirty-ni...

Your election, Sir, as President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session comes at a significant moment in the history of the United Nations. The outcome...

Please accept my most sincere congratulations, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. Let me also thank the...

 Mr. President, the delegation of Peru welcomes your election to preside over the present session of the General Assembly where countries of the north and sout...

It is with great pleasure that I extend to the President of the General Assembly the felicitations of the Pakistan delegation on his election to preside over th...

Let me begin by congratulating Mr. Udovenko on his election as President of the General Assembly at this fifty-second session. The country and the Group he rep...

I would first like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the task you have just embarked on in leading the General Assembly at its seventy-second session. I am...

Speaking for the first time from this rostrum, I wish to reaffirm here the importance France attaches to the multilateral system. Our common future cannot be en...

We are keenly aware that we are meeting in one of those periodic crises in world affairs which deeply affects all nations and peoples. We must also be aware tha...