Speeches by Jimmy Carter

70. Mr. President, permit me to join the representatives who have spoken before me in this general debate by offering you the congratulations of the delegation...

Today our region and the entire world are facing great regional and global challenges, and we will be able to find solutions to them only if we act collectively...

We are assembled here in 2015, once again fully aware of the immense struggle of our peoples to arrive at an age of dignity, a time when there will finally be a...

Permit me to congratulate Mr. Razali Ismail on his unanimous election to preside over this session. His election is a reaffirmation by the United Nations Membe...

‘The Spirit of San Francisco’ Mr. President. Nearly four score years ago, nations exhausted from a cataclysmic World War came together in San Francisco to crea...

Allow me at the outset to express to Ambassador Insanally my special congratulations on his election to preside over the General Assembly at this important sess...

 38. Mr. President, for Latin America your election as President of the General Assembly is an event of singular importance. That is because we consider y...

184. "Peace, security, independence and sovereignty for all cannot be secured by dealing only with the problems of some. This also means that peace and securit...

We would like to congratulate Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. Our world is afflicted by new...

Mr. President, your election to the Chair at this thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly represents just recognition by the international community of yo...

May I offer my warm congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election to the position of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. Follo...

I extend my greetings to the President of the General Assembly, Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, whom I wish to recognize as the first Latin American woman t...

On behalf of the delegation of Uganda, I congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the deliberations of the fifty- seventh regular session of the...

 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...

The heroic people of Venezuela and its revolutionary Government greet all peoples and all Governments of the world represented in the General Assembly of the U...

It is indeed for me a great honour and privilege to address the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly. This occasion not only presents the first opportun...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate Mr. Opertti on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session. We are confident that his vast exp...

161. Mr, President, please accept my congratulations on your election to the high office of President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly. We ...

Three days after the entry into force of the new treaties on the Panama Canal , a milestone in the history of Latin America, the President of Panama, Mr. Arist...

 1. The great English writer, Charles Dickens, began one of his celebrated novels thus: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.. .". I suggest th...