Speeches by Mark Rutte

Mr President, Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, [PM] For me, the General Assembly in New York is the ultimate UN experience. All the d...

On 17 July, in a summer already marked by alarming reports from Syria, Iraq and Gaza, our country was confronted with a stark international reality. The 298...

In 1864. Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to Edwin Stanton, his Secretary of War. He observed that “you cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it...

In 1999, in his message for the New Millennium, the late Kofi Annan spoke words that still ring true almost two decades later: “More than ever before in human h...

Growing up in Europe as a child of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a fact of life, and I still vividly remember when the first breaches began to appear in th...

Every era and every decade has its problems, great and small. The problems we face now seem overwhelming. These days many people worry about the future, which i...

This spring, after a year in the grip of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, we looked forward to the summer. We were full of hope and anticipation. De...