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It is with particular pleasure that I congratulate you, Sir, and your country, Zambia, on your election as President of the thirty-ninth session of the General...

1. Allow me, Mr. President, to present to you the warm congratulations of the Government of Haiti and of the delegation over which I have the honor to preside...

I am privileged to address the General Assembly, and I know to whom I owe this privilege. I owe it to all those who, just over 70 years ago, rose up against a b...

Allow me, Sir, to extend to you my warmest congratulations on your unanimous election as President of the General Assembly. I am certain that your wide experie...

Hopes for the success of the United Nations were running very high in the closing days of the first session of the General Assembly. Few of us, if any, left thi...

Mr. President, let me begin by congratulating you most warmly on your election to this internationally very important post. 3. I speak to you as a German and ...

We meet in an hour of grief and challenge: Dag Hammarskjold is dead. But the United Nation^ lives. His tragedy is deep in our hearts, but the tasks for which h...

96. First of all, I wish to express the satisfaction of the Cuban delegation at the election of Mr. Gaston Thorn to preside over the thirtieth session of the ...

27. Mr. President, it is my great privilege to join the speakers who have preceded me in expressing to you on behalf of the Government of Ghana warmest congrat...

We meet at a time when the world economic outlook, both immediate and longer term, is depressingly bleak. On the political front, discussions on detente are de...

Mr. President, my address today will be published in its entirety just as I wrote it. Because of its length, however, I shall now read it out in a shortened fo...

 Allow me Sir, on behalf of the Ugandan delegation, to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. As Foreign Mi...

Sir, I hail, salute and congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly. You bring to this high posit...

24. As one surveys the world scene, one sees momentous events of great importance succeed each other with almost kaleidoscopic rapidity — events which are bound...

141. Mr. President, my first words will be words of welcome and of farewell. Welcome to you, Mr. President, whom I am honoured to congratulate on your electio...

In the name of the African Union, I would like to greet the members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and I hope that this meeting will be among...

46. Mr. President, the Cuban delegation is extremely delighted to congratulate you on your election as President of the twenty-second session of the United Nati...

Every year, during the general debate, we inform each other of the undertakings and hopes of our respective countries; but our overriding duty is to deal with p...

 I should like to begin by congratulating Mr. Dante Caputo on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-third session. ...

51. A few months ago, Mr. President, you went to the plateau of Mexico to take part in the tribute which we paid, on the seventh centenary of his birth, to Dant...