Speeches by Major

It is my great honour to stand here as the new Japanese Prime Minister — brand new, really, as I was designated by the National Diet yesterday. First, I w...

87. The thirteenth session of the General Assembly is convened under the dismal clouds of increased tensions and crises. One wonders if human ingenuity and huma...

53.The English version of his statement was supplied by the delegation. *Mr. President, I should like, first of all, to take this opportunity to convey to you t...

At the outset, on behalf of the people and the Government of Yemen, I would like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly and his brotherly coun...

34. Madam President, slow me to extend the very warm congratulations of the Maldivian delegation to you on your election as the President of the twenty-fourth s...

130. On behalf of the South African delegation I wish to add my congratulations to those already extended to the President on his election to the high office of...

In 1954, former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld stated that the United Nations was not created to bring us to heaven, but to save us from hell. The need for ...

The current political debate is taking place against the background that is not quite usual. This Hall just heard statements by the participants in the Millenni...

I would like to congratulate Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his election as the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. I take this oppo...

It is with a heavy heart that I address the Assembly today. Just before I left Ghana to attend this general debate, I learned of the terrorist attack that to...

 Mr. President, let me on behalf of the delegation of Saint Kitts and Nevis congratulate you on your election to office. My delegation has absolute confidence ...

Mr. President, It is an honor and privilege to address this 79th session of the General Assembly. I bring warm greetings from the Government and people of S...

I am pleased today to address the General Assembly on behalf of my Prime Minister, His Excellency Mr. Peter Paire O’Neill, and the Government and the people of ...

I begin by joining others in congratulating Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on assuming the noble and high responsibility of the presidency of the General Assembly ...

146. My country wishes to associate its voice with those of the eminent speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum in offering to you, Mr. President, it...

A veteran of United Nations diplomacy recently told me that every session of the General Assembly has its own crisis to discuss, its own major topic. So what is...

 Burkina Paso and Nigeria on joy fraternal and friendly relations. Therefore it is with some pride and pleasure that we see as President of the General Assembl...

1. Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic I wish to join in the congratulations which have already been addres...

Two years ago, I addressed the General Assembly for the first time as King of Spain (see A/69/PV.6). I feel at present the same honour and the same responsibili...

Each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution. For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whim...