Speeches by Major

 The peoples of the world are turning towards our Organization with interest, expectations and hopes that are higher than ever before. There is a widespread, g...

Dear Mr. President, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, allow me to convey greetings and best wishes of peace and prosperity from the Presi...

Allow me to congratulate Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I would also ...

At the outset, allow me to convey our deepest condolences to the American people and Government for today's plane crash and to express our deepest sympathies t...

1. May I be allowed to come to this rostrum to present my respectful compliments to my friend, the President of the General Assembly, a distinguished statesman ...

On behalf of the Government and people of the Dominican Republic, I am pleased to extend our warmest congratulations to the President of the General Assembly...

It is an honour and privilege for me to address this forty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly. On behalf of the Government and people of ...

As the first representative of the new Government of Myanmar to speak before the Assembly, it is my duty and my privilege to reaffirm our faith and confidence i...

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...

At the 22nd session of the summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of Africa, held in Addis Ababa last July, my colleagues and brothers entrusted to m...

Mr. President, I would like to express my warmest congratulations to you on your election as President of our prestigious Assembly at its seventieth session. Yo...

Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my great honour to address the General Assembly today. Colleagu...

I congratulate Ambassador María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election as President of the General Assembly. I welcome the fact that, for the first time in hi...

I address the United Nations Assembly today for the second time since I returned to take part in international affairs. Last time we met in Paris in a temporary...

Let me extend my heartiest felicitations to Mr. Lykketoft on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. I also commend Hi...

I would like to commend the election of His Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session and to welcome his ex...

In many areas during the last year we have seen the Charter of the United Nations ignored, if not defied. These situations have caused great human suffering and...

Your Majesties, Highnesses, and Excellencies, Your Excellency Mr. President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency Secretary-General Guterres, It is my ho...

At the outset, I would like to join others in paying tribute to the memory of the late Kofi Annan, a true world leader and a firm believer in the strength of th...

In 1945, in the aftermath of a war that tore apart all the peoples of the world - a war during which the most basic human rights were violated - a few leading c...