Speeches by Jean Ping

I should like at the outset to sincerely congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at the present session. That election...

Allow me to congratulate you most warmly, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly. Through you, I would like also to thank your predecessor, ...

Allow me to congratulate the President, on his election to his high post and to express our confidence in his successful and professional implementation of the ...

It gives me great pleasure at the outset to extend to you, Mr. President, our congratulations upon your election to the presidency of this sixtieth session of t...

Sixty years ago at San Francisco, the United Nations Charter was adopted. It was an event that set the path for the future of nations and peoples. It was an eve...

Palau warmly congratulates the President on his election to the presidency of the Assembly and assures him of Palau’s full support and cooperation. We pay tribu...

Let me first congratulate Mr. Jean Ping on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session and wish him every success in this impor...

Allow me at the outset, on behalf of my delegation, warmly to congratulate Mr. Eliasson on his outstanding election to the presidency of the General Assembly at...

At the outset, I would like to express my great and profound satisfaction for the recent release of four hostages kidnapped in Iraq, among them a young woman wh...

Let me begin, Sir, by paying tribute to your predecessor, Jean Ping, for his extraordinary work — above all on the world summit, but also throughout his year as...

Let me start by extending to the President my sincere congratulations on his election to the presidency of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. I can a...

May I first take this opportunity to congratulate the President on his election to lead the work of the General Assembly. Let me also reassure him of Tonga’s su...

The election of Mr. Jean Ping to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session does honour to our continent, to our subregion of Central Afr...

It gives me great pleasure to address this forum and to share with the General Assembly my Government’s views on issues of the highest relevance to our Organiza...

Allow me to begin by extending my delegation’s warmest congratulations to the President upon his assumption of the office of the presidency of the General Assem...

As you know, Madam President, there is one African tradition, but its forms are many. That is why the African continent is the cradle of mankind and this Afr...

On behalf of the Government of the Republic of San Marino, I wish to congratulate Ambassador Jan Eliasson on his election as President of the General Assembly a...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixtieth session. I would like to express to you t...

At the outset I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. I have known ...

I should like, first and foremost, to convey, once again, my sincere sympathy in connection with the victims of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. All...