Speeches by Ban Ki-moon

I should like at the outset to express heartfelt congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its present session, ...

First of all, I would like very warmly to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. I am cert...

It is a great honour and pleasure to participate in the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly on behalf of the people and the Government of Tuvalu. At...

On behalf of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, let me congratulate President Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly. He can count on the ful...

It gives me great pleasure once again to address this body where we unite our goals and labours for a better and brighter future. I wish to wholeheartedly co...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Sam Kutesa on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. We...

On behalf of India and on my own behalf, I congratulate Mr. Peter Thomson on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. I w...

Allow me to congratulate the President on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. I assure him of the full suppo...

On behalf of the President of the Republic, Mr. José Mário Vaz, and on my own behalf, and in the name of the State and people of Guinea-Bissau, I would like ...

Today, I address the Assembly at a time when I feel great uncertainty about the future of the Organization and the established rules governing the relations ...

I would like to begin by conveying my warm congratulations to the President on his brilliant election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-f...

I would like first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to your prestigious office. Your vast political experience and diplomatic skills will...

At the outset, I would like to address my warmest congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on the confidence that the entire United Nations family has invested in hi...

It is now 71 years since our Organization, the United Nations, was created to ensure peace, security, cooperation, economic development and respect for human ri...

Fourteen years ago, in this very Hall, the international community, in a promising move, pledged to attain a series of common goals by 2015, essentially, to ...

Samoa commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of its independence this year, at home and abroad. The Headquarters of the United Nations was one of the venues, an...

On behalf of the Kingdom of Morocco, I should like to congratulate you warmly, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General-Assembly of the United ...

Allow me to first extend to all of you the fraternal greetings and best wishes of President Michel of the Republic of Seychelles, the Government and the peop...

First, let me join other speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. I sho...

May I first congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I am confident that the current session...