Speeches by Dalia Grybauskaitė

This November the world will commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War. The war caused the fall of empires and opened a window for small ...

The topic of this year’s debate invites us to focus on people and our responsibility to ensure their peaceful and sustainable future. However, in today’s world,...

Today, numerous outbreaks of armed conflict and instability in the world make us look back at the main cause and purpose of the United Nations — to keep peac...

In the past few years, the number of conflicts in the world has again been on the increase. That causes the deaths and injuries of, and a loss of shelter for, ...

This year we agreed that the general debate would aim to give a universal push to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. I would like to focus on the part...

I am delighted and privileged to address this Assembly. I believe that this is the right place to discuss the issues of greatest concern to the international...

The seventieth anniversary of the United Nations offers us an opportunity to renew our commitments to the ideals and principles of the Charter of the United Nat...

Today the international community is striving to meet challenges that the founders of the United Nations could not have envisioned some 65 years ago. At the ...

“We the peoples of the United Nations, determined ...”. Yes, these are bold and visionary words drafted 70 years ago, providing the United Nations with its sen...