Speeches by president

It is a great honour and a pleasure to address the General Assembly at its sixty-first session on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina. First of all, I would l...

Allow me at the outset to convey to Mr. Jaime de Piniés the greetings of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, and his hopes for...

Permit me, Sir, on behalf of the French delega¬tion to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the Assembly. Your experience of internat...

It is an honour for me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to your high office. As the United Nations approaches its fiftieth anniversary, its ...

101. O temporal O mores! We could not have found a better place than this nor could we have selected a better occasion than this to take up again this cry of a...

On behalf of the Mongolian delegation, I should like to offer Mr. De Marco our sincere congratulations on his unanimous election to the lofty post of President...

Allow me to extend our thanks to the outgoing President, Ambassador Razali Ismail, and to congratulate him on the way in which he fulfilled his mandate. I woul...

Sir, your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session is a tribute to your personal qualities. It reflects the contribution o...

It is with pleasure that I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency at the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly. It is also a pleasure...

Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to extend to you, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, my congratulations on your election to the presid...

I sincerely congratulate Mr. Gurirab on his election as President of the General Assembly at this session, the last to be held 37 before the start of the new ...

Permit me first to express the Swedish Government's satisfaction at your election as President of this Assembly. Not only is your election and expression of the...

One decade ago, the world was convulsed by a cataclysmic collapse of its economic order. The devastating global economic and financial crisis began in the board...

 1. It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to extend to you, Sir, on behalf of the Government and people of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and on my ...

As we all know, this year constitutes a landmark year for our Organization as we celebrate its seventieth anniversary. The Organization’s founding fathers wante...

Mr. President, I am pleased to join in the expressions of pleasure at your election. Your brilliant record makes you well qualified to occupy your lofty post ...

At the outset, the Government and people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines take this opportunity to extend deepest condolences to the people of the Philipp...

We are fortunate indeed, Sir, to be approaching the end of the fourth decade of the life of the United Nations under the distinguished presidency of a man such...

In the gigantic struggle, which has always divided the great Powers — and which, unfortunately, is still being waged — the forum of this Assembly has proved the...

We meet in a Hall devoted to peace; in a city scarred by violence; in a nation awakened to danger; in a world uniting for a long struggle. Every civilized nati...