Speeches by Gaston Thorn

152. At the beginning of this new session of the Assembly, it is with a certain satisfaction that we look back on the year which has elapsed since the twenty-...

Mr. President, your election as President of the thirty-first session of the General Assembly is a reflection of your personal merit and of the honorable place ...

254. Since my appointment as Foreign Minister of Paraguay this is my first opportunity to address the General Assembly of the United Nations to express the view...

Mr. President, permit me first to join my colleagues in congratulating you on your election as President of the thirty-first session of the General Assembly of ...

Mr. President, may I first of all congratulate you on your unanimous election as President of this session of the General Assembly. Your long service at the Uni...

Mr. President, I wish to express my sincere congratulations to you on your election to the presidency of this historic thirty- first session of the United Natio...

We are loyal to the fundamental postulates of international law, one of which is the juridical equality of States, and thus we should like to take this opportun...

Allow me, first of all, to extend my delegation's congratulations to Mr. Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe on his election as President of the General Assembly at it...

1. It is for me a great privilege to represent Laos at the thirtieth session of the General Assembly, a country which is undergoing a profound historic evolutio...

 2. Mr. President, I welcome this opportunity to congratulate you in person on your election to the responsible post which will mean your presiding in the week...

Mr. President, permit me first of all to convey to you the warm congratulations of the delegation of Burma on your election as President of this General Assembl...

The developing countries are fortunate to have such men as Mr. Amerasinghe. His election to the presidency of the General Assembly's thirty-first session is ind...

I should like first of all, Sir, to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I am all the more pleased to do this because I...

Allow me first to say how pleased I am to see Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe vested with the presidency of the thirty-first session of the General Asse...

75. Mr. Gaston Thorn was elected President of our Assembly virtually unanimously. His good-heartedness, his statesmanship, his complete mastery of internation...

204. Allow me through you Sir, to express to Mr. Amerasinghe our most sincere and warm congratulations upon his election to the presidency of this thirty-first ...

Mr. President, I should like, at the outset, to express to you my heartfelt congratulations on your unanimous election as President of this session. I am convin...

Mr, President, your election to the presidency of the General Assembly is the crowning of long and distinguished service at the United Nations, and a most deser...

109. I should like to extend to Mr. Gaston Thorn our warmest congratulations on his election as President of this session of the General Assembly. These congr...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to express to Mr. Amerasinghe, on behalf of the Government of the State of Kuwait, heartfelt congratulations on his el...