Speeches by Major

Mr. President, I thank you for calling upon me at this late hour when the prospect of lunch must be so much more alluring than the thought of another indigestib...

On behalf of the Government and people of Togo, I should like to convey very sincere condolences and feelings of compassion to the people and the Government of ...

63. The delegation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the office of President of the thirty...

Mr. President, at the outset I wish to congratulate you on your assumption of the stewardship of this session of the Assembly, a responsibility upon which you h...

First of all. I wish to congratulate Ambassador Dennis Francis on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session and to extend ...

All of us seated in this Hall witnessed the collapse almost two decades ago of a seemingly invincible international system based on the antagonism of two po...

Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at this session. My delegation pledges its support and it...

I should like to start by conveying to the friendly Republic of Serbia and to President Jeremić personally my most heartfelt congratulations on his election to...

I should like to begin by paying homage to the memory of the late President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Houari Boumediene, and the late Pre...

Sixty years ago, Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand told representatives to the San Francisco Conference that its sole aim should be “the setting up of ...

 May I join my colleagues in congratulating the President on his election to the high office he now holds. He is even newer to his job than I am to mine. But w...

Mr. President, having known you for the years you have been representing your country in the United Nations and having known your objective way of thinking and ...

Seventy years ago, this Organization was born out of the chaos and ruins of the Second World War. It was born with the hope and a vision that the future would b...

I wish first of all to congratulate Mr. Jan Eliasson on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session. We are convinced that, given ...

I speak to you today as the representative of a country which has evolved in the Short span of a decade from a state of dependency to independence. This evoluti...

Mr. President, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Mr. Secretary General, Your Majesties, dear Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the outset, I wish t...

I wish to congratulate Mr. Miroslav Lajčák on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session. I also thank his predecessor, Mr....

Let me join other world leaders in congratulating Her Excellency Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election as President of the General...

Sixty-three years after its formation, the United Nations remains the world’s central international body. Only here do all countries come together to devise ...

Let me begin by conveying my deepest sympathy and condolences to the families and relatives of the victims of American Airlines flight 587, which crashed in th...