Speeches by Felipe Pérez Roque

Actually, we have no reason to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations. The chaotic, unequal and insecure world in which we are now living is n...

Every year at the United Nations, we go through the same ritual. We attend the general debate knowing beforehand that the clamour for justice and peace by our u...

A year ago, the General Assembly had to be postponed because of the ruthless crime committed on 11 September. There was then a worldwide wave of solidarity tow...

Last century bore witness to two terrible world wars, in which over 80 million human beings perished. It later seemed that, due to the lessons learned, the Uni...

We are living at a decisive moment in the history of humankind. More than half a century after the creation of the United Nations, on the threshold of a new mil...

Before delivering my statement, I would like to express our condolences to the United States, the Dominican Republic and other countries represented here that ...

Never before have the real dangers awaiting the human species become so evident; never before have the violations of international law become so evident, as ...

In this Hall today are representatives of wealthy countries and also representatives of poor countries, who constitute the majority. There are ministers and amb...