Speeches by MAUMOON ABDUL GAYOOM

The first three words of the Charter of the United Nations reads “We the peoples”. Those words make it clear that human life is at the heart of the Charter of t...

The 192 Member States gathered here have not yet taken the qualitative leap called for by Woodrow Wilson in 1918 for our international order not to be based ...

The United Nations today is at a crossroads. It needs to become part of the twenty-first century, and it must do so with great urgency. It needs to gear itse...

Allow me at the outset to extend to Mr. Kerim my delegation’s warmest congratulations on his election to preside over the sixty-second session of the General...

I have much pleasure in extending to you, Sir, my warm congratulations and those of the members of the Maldives delegation on your election as President of the...

First of all, Sir, let me congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly. Your election is a reflectio...

It is indeed a great honour for me and my delegation to felicitate you, Sir, on your election to the esteemed office of President of the General Assembly. We e...