Session 17 Speeches

1. It gives me great pleasure, Mr. President, to join, all those who have congratulated you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly. The choi...

Mr. President, in congratulating you and the Assembly upon your election to preside over our deliberations, the thought of your brilliant and most distinguished...

First of all, I wish to extend the hearty congratulations of my Government and the Afghan people to the representatives of Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad...

On taking the floor for the first time at this session, I should like first to extend my delegation's congratulations to the President of the General Assembly o...

47. It is both a great honour and an immense pleasure for me to address this august Assembly, which aims to be, and must be, the conscience of the world. 48. Af...

44. The Argentine delegation to the seventeenth session of the United Nations General Assembly is happy to congratulate you most sincerely, Mr. President, on yo...

Allow me, Mr. President, at the opening of Australia's statement in the general debate, to express the sincere congratulations and the great pleasure of my coun...

Mr. President, first of all permit me to extend to you the most heartfelt congratulations of the Austrian, delegation. We are, together with all the other deleg...

It is a generally accepted rule that a speaker in the general debate begins by extending his congratulations to the President on his election. This is a rule wi...

To begin with, I should like to congratulate the President heartily on his election. 152. On behalf of the people of Bolivia, I wish to extend a fraternal greet...

Before I begin my statement, Mr. President, allow me to present to you, on behalf of the delegation of Brazil, our most sincere compliments on your election to ...

I should like first, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate the President of the General Assembly upon his election. 65. The main concern of peoples, since...

Mr. President, permit me, at the outset of my speech, to convey to you my warm congratulations and those of my delegation on your election to the high office of...

56. Mr. President, as this is my first speech of the present session, allow me to congratulate you, on behalf of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, on ...

It is a great honour for me to present my Government's views from this rostrum, where so many eminent personalities have preceded me. Like all small nations, Ca...

Mr. President, before presenting to this Assembly the views of the Federal Republic of Cameroon on the principal items on the agenda of the seventeenth session,...

In the first place, Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to join with others in offering you congratulations on your election to the Presidency of the Gene...

122. Mr. President, may I first of all, on behalf of the Central African delegation, sincerely congratulate you on your election. I congratulate myself also, be...

Since this is my first public appearance before you, Mr. President, please permit me to congratulate you most warmly and very sincerely on your election to the ...

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Chile I have pleasure in offering you our sincere congratulations on the wise choice made by the General Assembly ...