Speeches by Rafael Correa

Ecuador hails the choice of Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. We believe his broad experience in the...

What an honour it is to be at the General Assembly and to represent Ecuador and our citizens’ revolution. I would like to begin by congratulating President Sa...

I am highly honoured to address the Assembly on behalf of the Government of the citizen revolution, of the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa Delgado, and o...

Mr. President, I would like to extend to you the congratulations of the Government of Ecuador on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its...

It was 70 years ago that, on behalf on their peoples, the first Member States of the Organization signed the Charter of the United Nations. We pledged ourselves...

Allow me to begin my statement by recalling the commitment to fight poverty, in force since September 2000, when 189 countries signed the Millennium Declarat...

I would like to commend the election of His Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session and to welcome his ex...

Our people, from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, have followed last week’s debate of General Assembly. They are a people in the middle of a revolution ...

I bring greetings from President Rafael Correa and an embrace from the people of Ecuador to all sister nations of our United Nations. The past decade of the cit...

In June 2009, humankind was still witnessing with perplexity the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and its devastating consequences on employm...

We passionately support the proposal of our dear colleague and friend, President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera of Costa Rica, that the next Secretary-General shou...

We are assembled here in 2015, once again fully aware of the immense struggle of our peoples to arrive at an age of dignity, a time when there will finally be a...

I greet all the citizens of the world who have come here — as they do every year — for this gathering of such great importance for the world. I am very please...