Speeches by president

It is an honour for me to address the Assembly and to share the Republic of Macedonia’s positions on the most important issues on the United Nations agenda. I f...

This has been an enormously difficult year for the United Nations. As the Secretary-General has pointed out, we are living in an era of an unprecedented leve...

My country, Togo, welcomes the election of the President of the Assembly to direct the work of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. On behalf of ...

I am addressing the General Assembly today on behalf of the more than 14 million Palestinians whose parents and ancestors lived through the tragic Nakba 74 year...

I bring to you the greetings of more than 1.3 billion people from the world’s largest democracy. They join me in congratulating President Csaba Korosi on his el...

Allow me to begin by congratulating the President of the General Assembly on his election. I offer him Malaysia’s full cooperation and support as he seeks to...

119. Mr. President, I take special pleasure at the outset in conveying to you, on behalf of the Moroccan delegation and of myself, our hearty congratulations on...

First of all, I would like to wish every success to the new Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres, and reaffirm our full support for his work. Allow me also to congra...

May I begin by congratulating the President on his election to preside over the fifty-second session of General Assembly and pledging to him the full support o...

Mr. President, I have already had the privilege of paying my respects to you from this rostrum and I take pleasure in doing so again today. 144. This is the fir...

Allow me at the outset to convey to the President my Government's congratulations on his election to preside over the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembl...

It is a great pleasure for me to join with others who have spoken before me in congratulating, on behalf of my country, the Union of the Comoros, and on my own...

Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Allow me also to express our...

Mr. President, I wish at the outset to offer you the warm congratulations of my delegation, to which I add my own. At this time when the world and the General A...

Let me congratulate Mr. Sam Kutesa of Uganda on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. I also extend my warmest...

The General Assembly is meeting in the shadow of the tragedy last month in which United Nations staff were killed or injured in Baghdad. New Zealand unreserved...

Singapore was delighted to see Mr. Didier Opertti unanimously elected as the fifty- third President of the United Nations General Assembly. As this century draw...

With an end to the global crisis finally within reach, it is imperative to make growth and development our first priority today. In the past 10 years, remark...

87. The French delegation does not conceal its satisfaction that the crisis which prevented the General Assembly from meeting normally last year, and which, had...

First, on behalf of the Government of Colombia, I would like to congratulate Mr. Kutesa for his election to the presidency of the General Assembly and to expr...