Speeches by Pope John Paul II

The Holy See is honoured to take part in the general debate of the General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time since the Assembly adopted resoluti...

It is the honour of the delegation of Costa Rica to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this historic session m...

It is a very pleasant duty for me to offer you my heartiest congratulations, Sir, on your election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Ass...

2. Mr, President, I wish first to express my personal congratulations to you on your unanimous election to your important position. We have two reasons to be p...

May I congratulate you, Sir, on the happy circumstance you have just referred to of your presiding over the meeting this afternoon. My country joins in congrat...

In the name of the people of Haiti, I am happy to greet you, Sir, and offer you our warm congratulations on your election to the presidency of the forty-seven...

Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President on your election as President of General Assembly at its sixty-second session. I wish you every success. I would ...

I should like at the outset, Mr. President, to hail your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. I would also like to ext...

Let me begin by extending my congratulations to Her Excellency Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa from the Kingdom of Bahrain on the occasion of her election as Presiden...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate Mr. Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. I am confident that the ...

I want to invite us all to take a short journey down memory lane and recall that in 1946 the United Nations General Assembly, convened for the very first tim...

 Forty-five years ago, the United Nations was formed to turn guns into ploughshares. Today, in Nicaragua, we are turning this great dream of the United Nations...

Not so long ago, it appeared that our world was growing at a pace beyond our control into a single global village. Today’s reality, by contrast, appears more...

It is an honour for me to represent Italy before this General Assembly of the United Nations — an honour that is. however, not light like privilege, but heavy l...

At a time when the United Nations is going through a painful crisis of growth, when relations between States are becoming more and more complex and presenting ...

Today, I am honoured as I congratulate you, Madam President, on your election as the first Arab woman to ever preside over this body, hoping that this herald...

A few weeks ago, a young Muslim lawyer in Singapore told me about a recent experience he had had in an East Asian airport. Unlike others holding Singaporean pas...

At the outset, I would like to state that Portugal, of course, endorses the statement made here by the presidency of the European Union. Portugal wishes the Uni...

I should like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. 13 08-51606 I ...

The international order born out of the Second World Mar is dead. We have seen an end to a stage in history marked by the cold war, the bipolar division of wor...