Speeches by SHEVARDNADZE

58 speeches found

Burundi

BDI
1987
Session 42
MBONIMPA

Mr. President, your election to guide the work of this session honours you and gives us cause for rejoicing for, given your qualities as an experienced diploma...

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Bulgaria

BGR
1989
Session 44
MLADENOV

 I have the honour to congratulate you, Sir, the representative of friendly Nigeria, upon your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-fourt...

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Luxembourg

LUX
1991
Session 46
POOS

Our traditional meeting this year in New York is taking on particular significance because of the simultaneous admission of the two Koreas, Micronesia and the ...

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Ghana

GHA
1989
Session 44
ASAMOAH

 Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to offer you, on behalf of the Ghana delegation, our warm congratulations on your unanimous election. Your election ...

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Austria

AUT
1989
Session 44
MOCK

It is with great pleasure, Sir, that I congratulate you on your election to the presidency of this General Assembly. This is an expression of esteem for you as...

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Netherlands

NLD
1987
Session 42
van den BROEK

May I join other delegations in congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations at its forty-second sessio...

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United States of America

USA
1989
Session 44
Bush

I am honoured to address the General Assembly today at the beginning of its forty-fourth session. I should like to congratulate Joseph Garba of Nigeria, a dist...

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Cyprus

CYP
1989
Session 44
George Vassiliou

 I should like first of all to offer you. Sir, my warm congratulations on taking up the presidency of the General assembly and to express my deep thanks to the...

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Sri Lanka

LKA
1989
Session 44
WIJERATNE

As Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, I appear before the Assembly for the first time to speak on behalf of my country. I am very happy to address these...

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Belarus

BLR
1989
Session 44
GURINOVICH

Please accept, Sir, the congratulations of the delectation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic on your election as President of the forty-fourth sess...

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Bulgaria

BGR
1987
Session 42
MIADENOV

 Comrade president, allow me to congratulate you cordially upon your election to the high office of President of the United Nations General Assembly at its for...

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Venezuela

VEN
1990
Session 45
Carlos Andres Perez

On behalf of my Government, allow me to congratulate you very sincerely. Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, Your personal qualiti...

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Netherlands

NLD
1989
Session 44
VAN DEN BROEK

 I should first of all like to extend my warmest congratulations to the President on his assumption of the presidency of the current session of the General As...

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India

IND
1989
Session 44
RAO

My delegation warmly welcomes the assumption by Ambassador Garba of- the stewardship of the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly. He is an eminent perso...

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Czechoslovakia

CSK
1990
Session 45
DIENSTBIER

Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on your election. Your professional skills and your kindness, which I had the opportunity to know during my recent ...

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USA

USA
1987
Session 42
Ronald Reagan

Let me first welcome the Secretary-General back from his pilgrimage for peace in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands have already fallen in the bloody confl...

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Burundi

BDI
1989
Session 44
Mr . MBON IMPA

 · Mr . MBON IMPA (Burundi): As I have the honour of speaking in this important forum of the United Nations, I am happy to convey to the Assembly a message of...

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Congo

COG
1989
Session 44
NDINGA-OBA

 The year that is now drawing to its end has demonstrated the perfectible nature of international life. In a good number of situations which until very recentl...

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Czechoslovakia

CSK
1988
Session 43
CHNOUPEK

I should like to congratulate Mr. Dante Caputo on his election to the high office of President of the forty-third session of the United Nations General Assembl...

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Czechoslovakia

CSK
1986
Session 41
Mr. CHNOOPEK

I should like to congratulate Mr. Choudhury on his election to the presidency of the forty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly and to wish him ...

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