Speeches by Amerasinghe

Allow me first to express the congratulations of our delegation on the keen perception with which the General Assembly has chosen Mr. Amerasinghe to preside ove...

1. Mr. President, let me join other representatives who have spoken before me in congratulating you warmly on your election to this high and onerous office. In...

Rarely, if ever, in the history of the United Nations has a President of the General Assembly been elected unanimously and without the whimsical aberration of a...

 1. "O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endured for ever" ...

55. Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to extend to you on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Iraq our warm congratulations on your election as Presi...

150. Mr. President, allow me at the outset to offer my warmest congratulations to you on your election to the high office of the presidency of the current sess...

 1. Mr. President, first of all permit me to express to you on behalf of the people of Guinea, its Party-State and its Government, our warm congratulations on...

72. On behalf of the Government of Ceylon and the delegation of Ceylon, as well as on my own behalf, I extend to His Excellency Mr. Emilio Arenales, the Foreign...

55. Mr. President, your election is a great tribute to you personally and to your country, with which Kenya maintains very cordial relations. Yugoslavia has b...

It is with genuine feeling that I return to this podium where I first came when I addressed the eleventh session of the General Assembly as Minister of Foreign ...

Since he assumed the post of Foreign Minister of Algeria, this is the first time that Mr. Bouteflika has been unable personally to take part in the general deba...

On behalf of the delegation of Tanzania, I would like to join my colleagues who have spoken before me in congratulating Ambassador Amerasinghe on his election t...

234. Throughout the regular meetings, our continued concerns and the exigencies of a future which we wish to build despite unforeseeable contingencies, we have...

75. Comrade President, it is with particular satisfaction that 1 wish to congratulate you on your election to the high office of President of the thirty-second...

41. Mr. President, may I first of all express to you, on behalf of the Kingdom of Morocco and on my own behalf, our warmest congratulations on your election to...

125. The delegation of Ceylon is taking this opportunity of adding its own tribute to the many that have already, in the course of the general debate, been paid...

Pressure of work forced Mr. Ismail Fahmy, head of the Egyptian delegation and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, to stay in Cairo, and he h...

The election of Ambassador Amerasinghe to the presidency of the thirty-first session of the General Assembly is symbolic in many ways. In addition to being a fi...

I am greatly honored to transmit to the General Assembly the warm congratulations of His Excellency Jean Bedel Bokassa, the President for Life of the Republic, ...

1. In addressing this Assembly for the first time I should like to acknowledge the honour that this represents for our people. This Assembly embodies the just ...