Speeches by president

Mr. President, on behalf of the Ghana delegation and on my own behalf I congratulate you on your election as President of the twenty-seventh session of the Gene...

118. Mr. President, allow me first of all to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. Your great personal qualities, as well...

164. It is my pleasure at the outset to congratulate the President on his election as President of the thirty- eighth session of the General Assembly. I trust...

It is a pleasant duty for my delegation to welcome the election of Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral to the presidency of the General Assembly at this especially sole...

Ghana presents its compliments to the President, a worthy representative of our great neighbour the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and congratulates him heartily ...

Mr. President, it is with real pleasure that I add the voice of the Rwandan delegation to the chorus of praise addressed to you since the beginning of the thirt...

I am honoured to be here to read the statement of my President, His Excellency Hâmid Karzai, who had to return from New York to Kabul on an urgent basis, fol...

Please permit me to offer you, Mr. President, our congratulations on your election to your high office and to assure you of our support and cooperation. To the ...

Madam President, on the occasion of your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- first session, I am pleased to convey to you and to o...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth...

It is a pleasure to see the General Assembly presided over by the Ambassador from Israel, and it is good to see all of the representatives here. Three thousand...

The seventy-second regular session of the General Assembly is being convened at a time of historic transition in Liberia and during a period of acute challenges...

I should like first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly and to thank you for having accepted the weighty task...

I bring warmest greetings from Grenada’s Prime Minister, the Honourable Keith Mitchell. Prime Minister Mitchell sincerely believes in the work of the General As...

It is a particular pleasure for me. Sir, to convey to you our warm congratulations and our best wishes for success on the occasion of your election to the presi...

It is my honour and privilege, first of all, to convey the greetings and salutations of the people and Government of Nepal and the best wishes of our Sovereign,...

I am pleased to bring our usual warm greetings from the Government and the people of Grenada, on whose behalf I am privileged to address this renowned instituti...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate Mr. Ismail Razali on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session, which is being held a...

As William Shakespeare said in Act I, scene 2, of Julius Caesar: "Men at some time are masters of their fate: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But i...

It gives me great pleasure to address this forum and to share with the General Assembly my Government’s views on issues of the highest relevance to our Organiza...