Speeches by Major

The world today is undergoing major developments, major changes and major adjustments. The trend towards peace, development and cooperation, which represents...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to offer you the felicitations of my delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fo...

Praise be to God and may peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, his family and his companions. Mr. President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Ladies and...

I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. May I also express...

I wish cordially to greet you, Mr. Amara Essy of Cote d’Ivoire, and to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I pledge the...

I believe that the natural disaster of such terrible extent that has just afflicted Mexico has moved each and everyone of us here. I would therefore like to joi...

29. Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you personally and on behalf of the Yugoslav delegation upon your election to the Presidency of this General Assem...

 On behalf of the Thai delegation, permit me to extend to Ambassador Garba our warmest congratulations on his unanimous election to the presidency of the forty...

My delegation wishes to associate itself with the compliments paid to you, Mr. President, on your election to your high office, and we pledge to you our conti...

Mr. President, all of us in Ecuador feel profound friendship and great admiration for your country. I should like to express these feelings as I hail you on yo...

111. I extend to you, Sir, warm congratulations on your election to the presidency of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. We know that with your...

I have the honour to deliver the following statement on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Patrice Talon, President of the Republic of Benin, who had to leave New Yo...

The past few decades have been marked by two contradictory trends — increasing political fragmentation and increasing economic globalization. The first of those...

My congratulations, Mr. President, on your election to this high office. You are well known in United Nations circles and your election is a tribute to your cou...

Madam President, I should like at the outset sincerely to congratulate you on your well-deserved election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-f...

The theme of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, “Reaffirming the central role of the United Nations in global governance”, is appropriate and t...

As Africa’s candidate for the position of President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session, Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande was elected on 4 June (see...

Your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, Sir, is a tribute to you and to your country, friendly Bulgaria, which has risen to the challenges of...

It is a great pleasure for me, at this fifty-first session of the General Assembly, to congratulate you on your election. Your wealth of experience in internat...

137. Mr. President, when my Prime Minister spoke, before the general debate opened [2122nd meeting], he conveyed to you the congratulations of the Government a...