Speeches by Kennedy

I wish to extend to you, Mr. President, the warm congratulations of the Danish Government and the Danish delegation on your election to the high post of Preside...

Mr. President, allow me to offer our congratulations to you upon your election. We are very fortunate in having chosen a colleague of such notable experience in...

On behalf of the Dominican delegation and on my own behalf I take great pleasure in congratulating Mr. Carlos Sosa Rodriguez, the representative of Venezuela, o...

5. Before embarking on the main text of my statement this afternoon, I have a few brief remarks on the statement just made by the representative of Guinea. I sh...

 The people of Argentina, on whose behalf I am addressing this Assembly, wish to support all those who have spoken here in favour of the maintenance of peace a...

It is only right to begin by thanking the outgoing President, Minister Amara Essy, who has done so much for our Organization during the past year, and by congra...

May I extend to you, and through you to the Tunisian Government and nation, my own warm congratulations and those of the Government and people of Costa Rica on...

56. It is indeed a great pleasure and honour for me to extend the congratulations of my Government to Mr. Arenales on his attainment of the high office of Presi...

A year ago, from this same rostrum, I began my statement by reading some 10 hair-raising news items of the moment from the international press, on bellicose co...

As one who has taken some interest in the election of Presidents, I should like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his election to this hi...

May I, Mr. President, add the warmest congratulations of my Government and delegation to the many congratulations extended to you from this rostrum on the occa...

1. Over nearly two decades the United Nations has increasingly become the centre and the stage of international diplomatic activity, and it has been customary i...

We grieved to learn of the aviation disaster yesterday in Lagos, which caused the death of 163 members of the Nigerian military. On this sad occasion I should...

1. The sudden events through which we have lived this year have brought about a lack of confidence in the future and the feeling that less than ever before are...

74. It is a particular pleasure for me, Mr. President, to perform in my turn the traditional duty of congratulating you on your election to the presidency of th...

Mr. President, the profound satisfaction felt by your friends from South America on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly at its eighteenth se...

For the United Nations and the system of collective security that it represents, the past year has been a traumatic one. Our Organization could ill afford the ...

42. Mr. President, it is with great pleasure that I offer you, on behalf of my delegation and in the name of the Chairman and members of the National Reformatio...

The general debate in which we are now engaged serves many purposes. Above all it gives the Governments of all Member States, great and small, an opportunity to...

Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you our warmest congratulations on your election to the Presidency of the eighteenth session of the Gener...