Speeches by Michelle Bachelet Jeria

On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations Her Excellency Mrs. Michelle Bachelet Jeria, President of the Republic ...

Today’s world is faced with both challenges and tasks. We are witnessing a plethora of serious international crises in various parts of the world, crises that h...

We are living in times that show us the necessity of shifting our perspective with regard to addressing development. Our world is in the midst of a crisis that ...

I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the General Assembly. I would also like to reiterate Chile’s support for the new Secr...

At the end of the twentieth century, we imagined that the twenty-first century would bring greater progress and peace for all and that it would be free of th...

For the past four years, I have been proud to represent my country in this Assembly, the world’s foremost assembly, the forum in which the peoples have place...

There is a famous etching by Goya called “The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters”. Goya taught us that when reason deserts us, when it literally falls asleep, it...

I want to begin by sending a fraternal greeting to the people of Mexico, and especially to the relatives and friends of the victims of the terrible earthquake t...

First I very respectfully invite all those who have not done so to read the book that I am holding, one of the most recent by Noam Chomsky, who is among the ...