Speeches by Barack Obama

Several weeks ago, as we prepared to address this historic seventieth session of the General Assembly on the post-2015 development agenda and in the general deb...

It is an honour and a privilege to address this forum today and to share the views of the Republic of Macedonia regarding a number of issues of concern for all...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremi. on his outstandingly successful presidency of the General Assembly at its previous...

We are meeting once again, but this time at a moment when humankind is facing many problems, each as difficult as the others, as if they had been planned to ...

First, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the President of the General Assembly on his election. I wish him every success in leading the ...

On behalf of the Malian delegation, I would first like to warmly congratulate the President on his accession to the presidency of the General Assembly at its se...

In this year 2014, proclaimed by the General Assembly as the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Israel has chosen to make it the y...

We address the General Assembly at its seventy-second session in the name of the constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Madur...

Costa Rica would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. I reiterate my country’s commit...

I come before the General Assembly today from Palestine to sound the alarm concerning the grave dangers of what is happening in Jerusalem, where extremist Israe...

I would like to begin today by telling the Assembly about an American named Chris Stevens. Chris was born in a town called Grass Valley, California, the son of...

It is a great honour to address this Assembly for the second time, nearly two years after my election as President of the United States. We know this is no o...

At the outset, allow me to welcome a very relevant event that took place here a few days ago — on 10 September — when, by 136 votes in favour, the General Assem...

It is a great honour for me to be here today. I would like to talk to the General Assembly about a subject that is at the heart of the United Nations — the p...

We come together at a crossroads between war and peace, between disorder and integration, between fear and hope. Around the globe, there are signposts of pro...

Seventy years after the founding of the United Nations it is worth reflecting on what the members of this body, working together, have helped to achieve. Out of...

It is my honour to address the Assembly for the first time as the forty-fourth President of the United States. I come before you humbled by the responsibilit...

As I address the General Assembly in this Hall as President for the final time, let me recount the progress that we have made these last eight years. From the d...

Each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution. For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whim...