Speeches by Edi Rama

One year ago, Pope Francis began his visits around Europe in Albania. Last week, we saw here in America the hope and joy he could bring to the richest and most ...

I am the newly elected Prime Minister of Albania. This is my first month in office. It is truly humbling to stand at this rostrum in the steps and the shadow...

As we meet today, we confront yet another year of complex crises and conflicts—as a deeply divided world watches. Our prospects for a more peaceful, just, a...

It is a special honour to deliver this speech as the representative of a country that for the first time in its history is joining the Security Council, as a no...

How many times has it happened that humankind has been confronted with as many complex challenges in such a relatively short time as is the case nowadays? Has t...

It is a particular honour for me to address this session of the General Assembly because I stand here as the representative of a country, Albania, that is curre...

Over the more than seven decades since this rostrum was raised to bear the weight of the entire world’s concerns, and the more than half century since the gloom...

Your Excellencies, The 75th UN anniversary and the 75th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter is an important jubilee for the entire mankind. The Republi...