Speeches by Major

I had intended to begin today by speaking of the sincerity with which Japan is implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, and I hoped to introduce the inno...

Let me join previous speakers in congratulating His Excellency Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sev...

Permit me at the outset to convey to you my warmest congratulations on your unanimous election as President of the eighteenth session of the General Assembly. I...

It is an honour for me to address the Assembly and to share the Republic of Macedonia’s positions on the most important issues on the United Nations agenda. I f...

This has been an enormously difficult year for the United Nations. As the Secretary-General has pointed out, we are living in an era of an unprecedented leve...

My country, Togo, welcomes the election of the President of the Assembly to direct the work of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. On behalf of ...

My first words are addressed to the President of the General Assembly, at its sixty-third session, my friend Miguel d’Escoto. I am pleased that the responsib...

First of all, I would like to wish every success to the new Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres, and reaffirm our full support for his work. Allow me also to congra...

It is an honour for me to stand here today to address the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. When, in 1945, Liberia joined the efforts to establish th...

Allow me at the outset to convey to the President my Government's congratulations on his election to preside over the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembl...

Our world continues to change in profound ways. Technological advances have accelerated globalization, bringing diverse challenges and new agendas. The magni...

On behalf of the Government of Tuvalu, I congratulate Mr. Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session. Tuva...

The General Assembly is meeting in the shadow of the tragedy last month in which United Nations staff were killed or injured in Baghdad. New Zealand unreserved...

I bring to the General Assembly greetings from my President, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, who would have loved to be h...

At the Seventh Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non- Aligned Countries, held at New Delhi from 7 to 12 March 1983, the chairman of the Movement of...

It is a great honour for me to address the Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, and its President, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab. You may be assured, Sir, of my highest...

 It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the forty-fifth session of the General Assembly, particularly as yo...

Since the founding of the United Nations a period of time has elapsed which we normally call a generation. 68. This is a singularly appropriate occasion to cons...

It is a sad irony that while we are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, the Organization finds itself in serious financial crisis. If no...

My delegation has already congratulated the President on her assumption of her high office. I would like to reaffirm our confidence in her ability to accompl...