Speeches by Albert

My participation in this general debate, like that of more than 100 heads of State and Government, confirms both the seriousness of the choices we must make ...

May I first join preceding speakers and congratulate you most sincerely, Sir, on behalf of the Government and the people of the Republic of Suriname on your un...

In taking the floor here at the Headquarters of our Organization — recipient of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize — meeting in New York, which has been so tragically ...

At the outset, allow me to express my most heartfelt condolences to the authorities of Morocco and Libya following the devastating events that have taken place ...

**Mr Philémon Yang, President of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly,** **Excellencies, Heads of State and Government,** **Mr António Gu...

A decade ago, it was said that with the end of the cold war we had reached the “end of history.” Over the years, this view has been largely discredited. M...

Antigua and Barbuda is pleased that this is the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. However, we can have meaningful dialogue only if the domin...

Much has been said from this rostrum in recent years about global governance. Yet in fact there is a pervasive feeling that chaos is inexorably engulfing our ...

Allow me to start by extending my congratulations to Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés and wishing much success to the presidency of the General Assembly at it...

68. First of all, Sir, I should like to congratulate you and your country upon your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth sessi...

It is a great pleasure for me to congratulate you, Sir, on your outstanding election. Your competence and your vast experience in multilateral diplomacy, to wh...

Twenty years ago I took the floor for the first time before the General Assembly. A few months before that, on 28 May 1993, Monaco had become the one hundred...

It is an honour and a great responsibility to address the 21 10-54965 Assembly today. It is a responsibility because we need to make the right analysi...

I am present here in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria. I extend my greetings to the President and the Vice-President of the General Assemb...

On behalf of the Philippine Government, I proffer my warmest congratulations to the President on his election. I wish him success and assure him of my countr...

The fact that the Grenada delegation is speaking on the last day of the general debate in no way diminishes my delegation's pleasure at seeing you, Sir, presid...

Let me express my country's delight in having Mr. Jan Kavan preside over this fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. Antigua and Barbuda owes much to t...

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming your important duties. I would also like to congratulate Mr. Peter Thomson on his su...

On behalf of the Philippine Government, I express our warmest congratulations to the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its ...

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...