Speeches by Major

I would first like to express to the United States authorities our sincere thanks for the warm welcome they give us each time we arrive in the beautiful city of...

I wish to welcome at the outset the President of the General Assembly at its fifty- third session. He has assumed a difficult and important task, and we have fu...

It is an honour to join other speakers in addressing the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. This year the Assembly has as its theme “The post-2015...

94. Mr. President, first of all, allow me the pleasant duty of felicitating you on your election to the high office of President of this Assembly. Your una...

It is gratifying to see at the helm of this important - indeed, crucial - session a statesman of Mr. Choudhury's qualities and abilities. Far-reaching decisions...

Last year, at the previous session [.2124th meeting], in my first address as Secretary of State, I spoke to this Assembly about American purposes. I said that t...

Allow me first of all, and with particular gratitude, to extend to the President’s predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Amara Essy, our warmest compliments for the c...

This is my first General Assembly as Prime Minister. I was here as Foreign Minister, when the waves of change were sweeping away the cold-war era. I recall the ...

 It is a pleasure, Sir, for my delegation to see you presiding over the forty-third session of the General Assembly. We are certain that with your experience i...

As we prepare to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, the memory of the cold war is fading rapidly from our minds. We recal...

266. Sir, may I begin by congratulating you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. This is an appropriate recognition both of your own pe...

It is a great honour for me to begin by congratulating Mr. Peter Thomson on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session....

112. I should like at the outset to convey to Mr. Lievano through you, Sir, the warm congratulations of the delegation of Burma on his election as President of...

I come to the Assembly, as Australia has each year since the first session of the General Assembly in 1946, and I come in the same spirit, to seek solutions ...

 For the past few years, we have been meeting hers with the financial crisis hanging over the United Nations like the sword of Damocles. Today the financial cr...

Permit me to express to Sir Leslie Munro my hearty congratulations on his election to the presidency of the twelfth session of the General Assembly. His qualifi...

I take pleasure in congratulating Mr. Opertti on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, and I pledge my delegation’s...

I wish first to extend to Foreign Minister Essy and the people of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire congratulations on his election to the presidency of the forty-n...

On behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, I would like to most warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to presidency of the General A...

On behalf of the Japanese delegation, I wish to express to you, Mr. President, our hearty congratulations on your election as President of the seventeenth sessi...