Speeches by president

I would like first of all to pay tribute to you, Sir, for your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session, and wish you every s...

19. Mr. TURBAY AYALA (Colombia) (translated from Spanish): Both as the representative of a democratic Government and as spokesman for a Latin American country, ...

It is my pleasure to congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly. The Barbados delegation s...

My delegation, and by extension, the Government and the people of the Commonwealth of Dominica, congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his electi...

I extend to Mr. von Wechmar the warm felicitations of my delegation on his unanimous election to the presidency of the thirty-fifth session of the General Asse...

My delegation wishes to associate itself with the compliments paid to you, Mr. President, on your election to your high office, and we pledge to you our conti...

I welcome this opportunity to offer the President my sincere congratulations on his election to his high office. Knowing his competence, experience and integrit...

First of all, I would like to congratulate Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election as President of this fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nat...

In addressing this forty-sixth session of the General Assembly, I should like first of all to express the respect and very high esteem felt by the people of Sa...

May I start, Sir, by congratulating Mr. Opertti on his election as President of this great Assembly, and wishing him well as he guides its deliberations. I was ...

I extend congratulations to His Excellency Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana on his election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. May...

132. Mr. President, my delegation had the opportunity earlier during the course of this session to offer its felicitations to you on your unanimous election to ...

I should like, on behalf of the Government and people of the Republic of Namibia, to extend to Ambassador Samir Shihabi our heartfelt congratulations on his el...

Since we last gathered in this great Assembly one year ago, we have witnessed developments of historic dimensions. There has been democratic protest and demo...

154. In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate: 155 The appointment of Mr. Fanfani to the high office of the Presidency of the General Assembly ...

I wish to begin by thanking His Excellency Srgjan Kerim for his leadership over the past year as President of this august and venerable body at its sixty-sec...

 I should like at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the office of President of the General Assembly. I am confident that your experien...

As Robert Nesta Marley, a great poet of our Caribbean civilization, once paraphrased the Book of Psalms in song, “the stone that the builder refuse, will always...

134. I wish to start by saluting you, Mr. President, and the great Latin American peoples whom you represent in this high office to which you have so fittingly ...

His Highness Prince Souvanna Phouma, our First Minister, detained by his many obligations, having been unable to come this year to the rostrum to plead the caus...