Speeches by BRAHIMI

Please allow me warmly to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly. This day, 11 November...

The terrorist attacks of 11 September are going to thoroughly change the world, but we do not yet know how. The aftermath of these events has shown that there ...

I would like to sincerely congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of this, the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session, which serves as a...

On behalf of the Belize delegation, I extend my congratulations to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency. Your vast experience in international affairs w...

The events of recent months have illustrated once again the importanceof the United Nations as a multilateral forum for addressing today’s crises and challenges...

At the outset, I would like to express my great and profound satisfaction for the recent release of four hostages kidnapped in Iraq, among them a young woman wh...

Allow me first of all to offer my sincere congratulations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Mr. Didier Opertti, on his election to the post of Pre...

Our world is changing rapidly. The black-and-white photos that were taken when this Organization was created back in 1945 are truly testimonies from another er...

To stand again at this podium today, representing Australia as its Foreign Minister, entering into the great conversation of nations, is an unsettling experien...

Allow me at the outset, Sir, to express my delegation's satisfaction at seeing you preside over the work of the General Assembly at this fifty-fifth session. Yo...

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the President on his assumption of the presidency of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I ha...

There is no reality more oppressive than the silence of a nation. For too long, Afghanistan was a silenced nation, a country without a voice. After decades of ...

Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to your high office, and to express our confidence in the success of the work of the current session. I als...

The Danish Government associates itself with the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium on behalf of the European Union. On 11 September...

The deaths of Sergio Vieira de Mello and his colleagues leave a terrible void. The loss of so many dedicated servants of the United Nations at its headquarters...

Let me join others in extending our sincere congratulations to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his unanimous election to preside over this session of the General...

Allow me at the outset to express my sincere congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-sevent...

At the outset, it gives me great pleasure to convey to Mr. Vuk Jeremić my sincere congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its s...

English text furnished by the delegation): It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Mr. Han Seung-soo on his election to the presidency of the General Ass...

Allow me to congratulate Mr. Udovenko, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on his election to the post of President of the General Assembly. His elect...