Speeches by president

It is a great honour to make my first speech to the General Assembly. The United Nations has a duty to lead the world in addressing the shared threats and ...

Australia is a founding Member of the United Nations, and we have long supported this Organization’s important role in world affairs. The United Nations has man...

42. Mr. President, I am pleased to be one of the first speakers to congratulate you on your election, which my delegation regards as a tribute both to your pe...

Your Excellency the President of the United Nations General Assembly All protocol observed, It is an honour to address this Assembly once again on behalf...

At the outset, I would like to join previous speakers in expressing my sincere congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his electi...

I should like to begin by greeting you, Sir, congratulating you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. We are...

I join my colleagues in congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. I would also like to wish...

On behalf of my delegation, the people of Uganda, and on my own behalf, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. Jean Ping, from the sister African Republic of Gab...

This is the second year that I have come to the General Assembly as President of Panama, representing a peaceful, healthy and noble people, to whom I send my gr...

You now preside, Sir, over a forum for every voice — an Assembly of all people and nations, one for no country or bloc to dominate solely or lead as one alone,...

It is a true pleasure for me to address the General Assembly once more. I wish first of all to echo previous speakers in congratulating you most warmly, Sir, on...

As we meet for the sixty-second session of the General Assembly, we look again to the United Nations as the global forum to address the challenges which affe...

At the outset, I warmly congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election as President of the General Assembly. I wish him every success in his endeavours. I also w...

30. It is a great honour for me to address the Assembly. 31. Since the United Nations was founded—and I have not forgotten that France was at San Francisco as ...

I congratulate the President and the members of the Bureau on their respective elections. I also express my deep appreciation to the Secretary- General. Mr. Ant...

It is a great honour to address the General Assembly. I would like to join other speakers in congratulating His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election to p...

At the outset, I have the pleasure of congratulating Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-th...

141. Before I begin, I must congratulate the President, Miss Angie Brooks, on her election. This is not a mere ritual. My delegation is particularly happy to se...

52. Last year the delegation of Ecuador pointed out the importance of the general debate at the beginning of General Assembly sessions; that debate serves to gu...

At the start of the annual session of the General Assembly, I would like to convey greetings to all countries of the United Nations. I greet the peoples and the...