Speeches by Colombo

 On behalf of President Premadasa and the people of Sri Lanka, I extend to the President and to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session our warmest gre...

1. My delegation would like to join with the many that have preceded it in discharging its first and pleasant duty of paying a tribute to Mr. Maza and congratul...

Sir, allow me, first of all, to join the representatives who have spoken before me in congratulating you on your well-deserved election to the high office of Pr...

I am honoured to represent Sri Lanka at this gathering today. I would first like to congratulate Mr. Abdulla Shahid on his election as President of the General ...

I should like first to add my voice to yours, Mr. President, in a word of heart-felt thanks and gratitude to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Fra...

Before I start my statement on the agenda items I should like to pay once more the homage of my country to the memory of the great leader of the Chinese people ...

As our Organization enters the last quarter of this century, in its thirty-first year of activity, it will at least benefit from the enlightened and experienced...

I am pleased to be able to address the global community on the first day of the current session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Please accep...

I too would like to extend to Ambassador Insanally the congratulations of Seychelles on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. We wish him ever...

I congratulate you, Sir, on being elected as the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. We wish you success and assure you of our full...

1. Had our friend and colleague, Mr. Belaúnde, been in the Chair this morning instead of being unfortunately temporarily indisposed, I would have expressed to h...

It is with great pleasure that I congratulate His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser on his assumption of the presidency. I must also congratulate His...

I should like first, following the example of previous speakers, to address my warmest congratulations to our President, Sir Leslie Munro, on his unanimous elec...

The election of Ambassador. Amerasinghe to preside over this session of the General Assembly could not have come at a more opportune time. He is a man totally c...

It is with particular pleasure that, through you, Sir, I express to Mr. Amerasinghe, on behalf of the Republic of Cyprus, warm congratulations on his unanimous ...

May I extend to the President the warmest congratulations of Seychelles on his unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly. We also extend our ...

47. On behalf of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to all representatives present here. 48. I should like to ...

Let me begin by conveying, on behalf of the Sri Lanka delegation, our sincere felicitations to Mr. Jan Kavan on his election as President of this fifty-seventh...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure at the outset to offer Ambassador Amerasinghe the congratulations of the delegation of Bahrain on his election to the ...

30. This Assembly has opened in a hopeful atmosphere. During the past year there have been welcome signs of an improvement in the international climate. It can ...