Speeches by BIRD

In 1965 three of the Caribbean’s most outstanding statesmen created an institution to foster cooperation and to quicken the pace of their countries’ developmen...

312. Every year, as custom has it, we review here major developments in international relations at the beginning of the session of the General Assembly. I want...

Antigua and Barbuda offers hearty congratulations on the election of the president of the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session. His efforts towards brin...

My delegation extends hearty congratulations to you. Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session. Your assumption of ...

President of the United Nations General Assembly, Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Distinguished delegates, ...

Let me first of all congratulate Mr. Holkeri on his unanimous election to the mantle of the leadership of the world's foremost international body. He is presidi...

I would like to commend the election of His Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session and to welcome his ex...

Allow me at the outset to extend to Mr. Mogens Lykketoft my warm congratulations on his election to the high office of President of the General Assembly at its ...

Forty-four years ago, Samoa became independent, and when we joined the United Nations it was a reaffirmation of our support for the principle of multilateral...

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...

I wish to extend warm greetings of iokwe from the people of the Marshall Islands as we gather for the sixtieth session of the Assembly. I am honoured to speak o...

Mr. President, my delegation is reassured to know that this difficult forty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly is being steered by a statesman...

I wish to convey Papua New Guinea’s congratulations to you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first s...

1. First I must extend to you, Sir, the warm wishes and congratulations of Samoa, my delegation and myself on your Installation as President of the thirty-seco...

I am happy to greet you on behalf of the Haitian people, whose hearts beat in time with liberty, pride and dignity: the liberty we have conquered, the pride we...

Solomon Islands, with much pride, wishes to thank our Secretary- General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for honouring my country with a historic visit earli...

On behalf of the Government and people of Antigua and Barbuda, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the General Assembly at t...

It is my honour to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. I also wish to pay tribute to the tirele...

Forty-five years ago, in 1950, a destructive hurricane battered my island country. It destroyed our small homes, levelled our sugar-cane fields, left death and ...

I am very pleased to address, for the first time, this global family of ours at its seventy-first gathering, on behalf of the Government and the people of Kirib...