Speeches by prime minister

At the outset, I would like to join the international community in paying tribute to the late Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, all United Nations personnel who lost...

Permit me. Sir, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-first session and to affirm ...

First of all. let me congratulate Mr. Dennis Francis on assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session. I will not be the first a...

Mr. President, my delegation is reassured to know that this difficult forty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly is being steered by a statesman...

It is my honour to congratulate you, Sir, on behalf of the Prime Minister, the Government and the people of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, on your election to...

55. Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to extend to you on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Iraq our warm congratulations on your election as Presi...

It gives me great pleasure to extend warm congratulations, on behalf of the delegation of Myanmar and on my own behalf, to Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral on his as...

This year, we celebrate the centennial of the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice (ICC) and the Permanent Court of Arbitrat...

On behalf of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, I should like to congratulate warmly Ambassador Shihabi on his election to the presidency of...

1. Mr. Vice-President, I should be grateful if you would convey to our President, along with our sincere congratulations, the best wishes of my country, Laos, f...

Let me start by expressing my respect and gratitude to the President of the General Assembly at its previous session, Mr. Srgjan Kerim, whose active involvem...

Your Excellency, President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Honorable Audience, May the peace, mercy and bl...

It is my honour to address the General Assembly again on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, who could n...

Allow me, at the outset, to join previous speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembl...

29. Mr. President, let me begin by expressing on behalf of my delegation our great pleasure at the honour that you have done us and Latin America by accepting ...

The General Assembly has unanimously chosen you, Sir, to guide our debates. This is a tribute both to your qualities as a diplomat and statesman and to your co...

At the outset I would like to congratulate you. Sir. on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, and to wish you succes...

Before addressing the Assembly and in exercising my right of reply, I wish to refer to a statement made by the Foreign Minister of Ghana when he participated i...

Let me congratulate the President of the current session and former President Jean Ping for the success of the historic sixtieth anniversary summit. We admire t...

Just over a year ago, we were here, attending the Millennium Summit, some 100 days before the dawn of the twenty-first century. At that time, I made a statemen...