Speeches by Major

The sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations is meeting in the very heart of France, here in Paris, with its magnificent tradition of fightin...

I should like at the outset to welcome the fact that Nicaragua, represented by Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, is presiding over the General Assembly at its s...

1. Mr. President, the delegation of Cuba, in the name of the Cuban people and Government, offers its hearty congratulations on your well-deserved election as Pr...

At the outset, I would like to express my great and profound satisfaction for the recent release of four hostages kidnapped in Iraq, among them a young woman wh...

Over the Assembly hangs a cloud of uncertainty — indeed, of unease — about the future of multilateralism and of international relations generally. The tragedy ...

Secretary-General Guterres, fellow delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry that circumstance dictates that we cannot be together for this, the 75th annivers...

Seventy years ago, the United Nations was founded as a collective response to the horror of war. For seven decades, the peoples of the United Nations have been ...

By electing Ambassador Shihabi of Saudi Arabia to the presidency of its forty-sixth session, the General Assembly paid a tribute to hit eminent professional an...

I have the honor to convey to you, and through you to the members of this Assembly, greetings from my Sovereign, His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikran Shah Dev, ...

I have the honour and privilege to speak on behalf of the European Union. In this capacity I would like to extend my warm and sincere congratulations to you, Si...

Let me begin, Sir, by paying tribute to your predecessor, Jean Ping, for his extraordinary work — above all on the world summit, but also throughout his year as...

It is a great privilege for me to address this great institution for the first time on behalf of the Republic of Lithuania. I have come with the message that my...

I wish to begin by congratulating the President, on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session and wish him every success wi...

Before I begin my address, I wish to express to our sister Republic of Honduras the great grief and solidarity of the Government and people of Peru in connexion...

125. Now more than ever man is facing the challenge of changing times. Through the concept of Heraclitus "all is flux, nothing is stationary is not a new one, i...

The last session of the General Assembly took place in an atmosphere of confidence and serenity. The fortunate settlement of the Korean war turned all eyes towa...

Let me at the very outset extend to Mr. Opertti our warm congratulations upon his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty- third session. We ...

96. During the twelve years since the United Nations was founded it has become an established tradition to hold a general debate at the opening of each session ...

Mr President, Secretary General, Mr. Antonia Gutteres Excellencies, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, 1. I wish to start by extending my congratulat...

Allow me first, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election as President and to express my conviction that the ses...