Speeches by president

 For the past few years, we have been meeting hers with the financial crisis hanging over the United Nations like the sword of Damocles. Today the financial cr...

I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming your responsible office. Major decisions are to be taken at this session and I wish you good fortune in your con...

It gives me pleasure, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, to extend to you, Madam President, and to your fraternal country, the Kingdom ...

I have the honour of addressing the General Assembly on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Eduard Kukan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Slovaki...

I have already, on 17 September [678th meeting], congratulated Sir Leslie Munro upon his election as our President. I repeat the good wishes which I then extend...

In the annual report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization which, together with the report of the Security Council, forms the main basis for ...

Mr. President, as the united Nations celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its creation, I should like to convey to you the great satisfaction and the feeling ...

I would first like to offer my most sincere condolences to the people and Government of Mexico for yesterday’s devastating earthquake. It is an honour for me to...

The social upheavals that have occurred in the world, whose consequences have for some time been steering international relations in a new direction, have rece...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to express to you on behalf of the Government of the State of Kuwait heartfelt congratulations on your election to you...

Let me extend to you, Mr. Vice-President, my warmest congratulations on your election. The Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Mr. Jacques Poos, spoke on behalf of...

On this, the first occasion of the participation of my country in the general debate of the Assembly, I hope the President will permit me to express the sincer...

51. Mr. President, your unanimous election is a great tribute to you personally and to your country, with which Kenya maintains cordial relations. Kenya is pro...

Sir, in congratulating Mr. Hollai on his unanimous election to the presidency, I wish to express the confidence of the Spanish delegation in his experience a...

I would first like to congratulate President Kutesa on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. His d...

I wish to extend our congratulations to Mr. Jan Kavan on his election to lead the work of the General Assembly. We are confident that his leadership will bring...

At the outset, on behalf of the delegation of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, I would like to extend my congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Miroslav Laj...

9. Mr. Krishna MENON (India): My delegation wishes to add its voice, Mr. President, to the many that have been heard from this rostrum conveying to you their fe...

Let me start by saying how pleased I am to see a representative of my own country presiding over this session of the General Assembly. It is the first time tha...

Two years ago, during my first address before the Assembly as President of Colombia (see A/65/PV.15), I expressed my country’s aspiration to become a member of...