Speeches by Pope John Paul II

 I salute you, Sir, on behalf of the Costa Rican people and wish you all success as President of the General Assembly. I salute also a tireless friend in the e...

It is a great honour for me to participate in the forty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly. First, Sir, I wish, on behalf of the Government ...

Mr. President, it is a great pleasure for my Government to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the thirty-fifth session of the General Assem...

Mr. President, permit me to welcome you, a representative of friendly Panama. Your long-standing service at the United Nations, commitment to peace and well-kn...

Upper Volta, through me, wishes to express its great satisfaction, Mr. President, at seeing you presiding over this thirty-fourth session of the General Assemb...

First of all, I wish to convey to Mr. Salim our profound satisfaction at seeing him occupying the high post of President of this session of the General Assembl...

2. It is my privilege to convey the warmest congratulations of the Government r d delegation of the Dominican Republic, and my own personal congratulations, t...

184. First of all, Sir, I should like to fulfil the pleasant duty of extending to you, on behalf of the delegation of Venezuela and on my own behalf, our since...

I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming your responsible office. Major decisions are to be taken at this session and I wish you good fortune in your con...

It is with particular pleasure that I congratulate you, Sir, and your country, Zambia, on your election as President of the thirty-ninth session of the General...

Mr. President, my address today will be published in its entirety just as I wrote it. Because of its length, however, I shall now read it out in a shortened fo...

At the outset allow me to express Colombia's grief at the tragedy in Mexico. We wish to restate our solidarity with that fraternal people. Together with the Lat...

It is the tradition of the General Assembly that its President carry out the important duties assigned to him in a forthright spirit of equa-nimity and impar...

134. Mr. President, first of all, I should like to convey to you the warmest congratulations, on behalf of the Italian Government and on my own behalf, on your ...

I wish first of all to convey to Mr. Guido de Marco the sincere congratulations of the government and the people of Costa Rica on his assumption of the presiden...

On behalf of the Chilean delegation I wish first of all to congratulate you. Sir, on your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. We...

It gives me particular pleasure to address the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly, meeting as it is under the presidency of Ambassador Salim. The Au...

The lengthy debates we have had at this session and over the past three and a half decades, particularly on the theoretical parameters of important economic an...

On behalf of the Government of Ecuador, it is a great pleasure for me to extend to you Sir, our congratulations on your well-deserved election as Presid...

Mr. President, I wish at the outset to address to you our warmest congratulations on your unanimous election to the high and responsible office of President of...