Speeches by GARCIA

On behalf of my delegation, and in my own name, I extend to the President our warmest congratulations on his well- deserved election to preside over the sixty...

My first words will be to pay tribute to the memory of hundreds of thousands of Haitians and those who came to help — including about 100 United Nations staf...

Just one year ago (see A/62/PV.6), I recalled before this Assembly that I was bringing the words of a people who for 200 years have experienced extreme suffe...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate you upon your unanimous election to the presidency of the thirty-first session of the General Assembly...

It is indeed a great pleasure to address this General Assembly on the International Day of Peace, in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperat...

I received the news of your election to the General Assembly presidency, Sir, with a brother’s pride. Twenty-one years ago, it was through war in Central Am...

I should like my words to this Assembly, to which are brought such important problems and thorny situations, to be a fervent message of the faith and hope of t...

It gives me immense pleasure to address the fifty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly under your able leadership. Allow me, on behalf of my ...

1. Madam President, I congratulate you, and through you, your great country, on the unanimous election which entrusted to you the task of guiding the debates of...

68. First of all, Sir, I should like to congratulate you and your country upon your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth sessi...

 It is a great honour and pleasure for me to return to this rostrum for the forty-fourth session of the Assembly and to address it on behalf of my country, the...

I would like to extend my congratulations to Her Excellency Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa and to her country, Bahrain, on her election as President of the Gener...

It is a great honour for me, as President of Colombia, to speak in the General Assembly, which, as the Organization reaches the fiftieth anniversary of its esta...

Let me begin by expressing my deepest sympathy and solidarity with the people and the Government of Mexico following the devastating earthquake that has taken t...

The international order born out of the Second World Mar is dead. We have seen an end to a stage in history marked by the cold war, the bipolar division of wor...

On 8 October 1967, exactly 13 years ago, revolutionaries and freedom fighters all over the world learned with both grief and indignation that Commander Ernest...

The commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations represents a historic milestone for all mankind. This is less, a time for ce...

1. First, I should like to congratulate Dr. Arenales, Foreign Minister of Guatemala, on his well-deserved election as President. His intelligence and experience...

118. Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly. It...

There is a famous etching by Goya called “The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters”. Goya taught us that when reason deserts us, when it literally falls asleep, it...