Speeches by Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão

Your Excellency the President of the United Nations General Assembly All protocol observed, It is an honour to address this Assembly once again on behalf...

Let me start by expressing my sincere congratulations to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his assumption to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly ...

On behalf of President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta and on behalf of the people of Timor-Leste, allow me to congratulate you, Madam, on ...

Allow me to begin by conveying my vigorous condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks in Kenya, Pakistan and Iraq, which killed scores of innocent people. ...

It is a great pleasure for me to address this great General Assembly for the second year in a row. Last September, I tried to convey to the Assembly a message ...

In September 2000, before becoming an independent country and while under the administration of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor,...