Speeches by Major

94. Please accept my congratulations, Sir, on your election as President of this session. You merit our full co-operation, not only in your capacity as a repr...

When I stood on this platform in September last year, I addressed the issue of the threats that beset our world. Unfortunately, these threats are still prese...

I would like to congratulate the President on his unanimous election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. We are confident that ...

48. I should like to begin my statement by saying that one of the founders of the United Nations has departed from a world in which, in so many ways, he played ...

The opening of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly, under the presidency of Ambassador Razili, takes place at the very moment a large number of Sta...

I wish at the outset to express my sincere gratitude for being given the honour of speaking from this lofty rostrum. Allow me first of all to convey to the mem...

I would first like to briefly express my pleasure at seeing the representative of Antigua and Barbuda, a country that is part of the Caribbean and is very de...

The Malawi delegation is pleased to join other delegations in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your election to preside over the business of the General As...

I wish first to congratulate Mr. D’Escoto Brockmann on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. This session of the General Assembly is takin...

1. I should like first of all to extend to the President my sincere congratulations on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly. Hi...

I thank the President for raising for discussion at this year’s general debate a very pertinent subject, namely, “The post-2015 development agenda: setting t...

 On behalf of President Premadasa and the people of Sri Lanka, I extend to the President and to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session our warmest gre...

It is with great pleasure that I extend my warmest congratulations to Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on his election as President of the General Assembly at i...

It is my honour to represent my country, the Principality of Andorra, before the Assembly, which this year is celebrating its seventieth anniversary. Over the p...

I have to confess to my usual excitement and pleasure at addressing the General Assembly, exceptionally crowded and patient even at this late hour. Let me begin...

Allow me first, on behalf of the Romanian delegation, to congratulate Ambassador Freitas do Amaral of Portugal most sincerely, and all the members of the Bureau...

Allow me to express my deep pleasure at Mr. Amara Essy’s election to preside over the General Assembly this year. This is a well-deserved tribute to your countr...

I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the European Community and its member States. Allow me, first of all, Mr. President, to pay a tribute to your predece...

The President of the Republic of Benin, His Excellency Mr. Thomas Boni Yayi, has asked me to deliver this message to the Assembly on his behalf. At the outse...

Once again the nations of the world meet in full assembly in this Hall to discuss the state of our world, to report on our actions of the past year, and to e...