Speeches by Major

On behalf of the Government and people of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, I convey my sincere congratulations on Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki’s election to pres...

The United Nations today is at a crossroads. It needs to become part of the twenty-first century, and it must do so with great urgency. It needs to gear itse...

My warmest congratulations go to you, Sir, on your early election as President of the General Assembly, which was the first fruit of the revitalization efforts...

39. Mr. President, chance and the rule of alphabetical order have led to a situation in which I am speaking to you today as the Minister for Foreign Affairs o...

Let me begin by extending my warm congratulations to Mr. Al-Nasser as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. His strong leadership wil...

I warmly congratulate you, Your Excellency Minister Essy, on your election as President of the General Assembly at this forty-ninth session. Australia is very p...

The agenda of this session not only is full of importance and burning issues but also brings great hopes and expectations. In his statement, Mr. Bernard Bot, th...

48. Sir, it is a pleasure for me, on behalf of the Bahamian delegation, to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, You ass...

We meet in this General Assembly on the threshold of a new decade. It will be a time of complex challenge, a period in which, more than ever, co-operative ende...

On behalf of the people of Honduras, I would like to extend greetings to the General Assembly. The Honduran people extend solidarity to their Mexican brothers a...

I am particularly pleased to congratulate Ambassador Insanally on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly, which does honour to the Group of Lat...

Allow me at the outset to express to the President my warmest congratulations on his election to guide the fiftieth session of the General Assembly. We are conf...

I extend my warm congratulations to you, Sir, and to Bulgaria on your election to the office of President of the General Assembly. Ireland, as one of the Vice...

The seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, in which I am participating on behalf of my country, the Central African Republic, offers me the happy oppor...

To stand again at this podium today, representing Australia as its Foreign Minister, entering into the great conversation of nations, is an unsettling experien...

Mr. President, my delegation is pleased to extend its warm congratulations to you on your election to preside over the thirty-fourth session of the General Ass...

Let me start by joining the President of Brazil in conveying to the people and Government of Mexico our deep sympathy over the devastation wrought by earthquake...

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the President on his assumption of the presidency of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I ha...

1. Mr. President, may I begin by offering you my sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. You bring to your high offi...

At the end of the nineteenth century, one quarter of the Icelandic population emigrated to Canada and the United States. Iceland was one of the poorest countrie...