Speeches by Corner

Mr. President, we are fortunate to have a person of your wide experience, wisdom and dynamism to preside over this important session of the General Assembly. Y...

I should like to congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly. In electing him the Assembly ...

 The election, as President of the General Assembly, of a dear friend and colleague has been for me a source of great satisfaction. I should like to congratula...

The United Nations continues to be the great hope for mankind to organize relations among States in a system based on peace and the dignity of the human person....

Sir, my first words will be to offer you my personal congratulations and those of my country on your election to the distinguished office of President of the Ge...

On behalf of the delegation of Malta, and on my own behalf, I congratulate the President on his well-deserved election to preside over the General Assembly at i...

Our session opened a few days ago under the provisional presidency of Mr, Gaston Thorn, the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, whose qualities of ...

118. This Assembly’s general debate offers, as usual a special opportunity to each Member State to present its views on the essential problems facing the-world ...

74. When I had the opportunity to congratulate you last week on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly, Mr. President, I expressed the hope tha...

It is a great pleasure to see a distinguished leader such as Ambassador Garba presiding over this Assembly. We have come to know him well from contacts between...

156. All the speakers who have preceded me to this rostrum have extended to the President of the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly their congratulat...

Mr. President, on the occasion of your election as President of this important forum of States of the world, I have the pleasure to extend my congratulations t...

My opening words must be addressed to the valiant people of Angola, whose great sufferings on this sad occasion we share. I refer to the untimely death of Pres...

At the outset, let me say how pleased we are that our deliberations this year take place under the presidency of the Prime Minister of Luxembourg. His contribut...

Mr. President, I wish to extend to you. Sir, my congratulations on your election to the presidency of the historic fortieth session of the General Assembly. I a...

37. Mr. President, I should like to offer you my hearty congratulations on your election. It is good to see the representative of one of the oldest independ...

55. Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to extend to you on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Iraq our warm congratulations on your election as Presi...

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of the Sudan, it gives me the greatest pleasure to congratulate you on your election to this high off...

Let me start by joining the President of Brazil in conveying to the people and Government of Mexico our deep sympathy over the devastation wrought by earthquake...

I should like at the outset to convey to you, an able, creative and experienced diplomat representing a great country with recognized distinction, my delegatio...