Speeches by SHEVARDNADZE

This session of the General Assembly is taking place in a world that has undergone fundamental change. The United Nations is the focal point of mankind's new h...

 I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly. Your experience and the esteem in which you are held as the former Foreign Min...

 At the outset I extend my warm congratulations to the President on his election to preside over the forty-fourth session of the General Assembly. This session...

 Allow me to begin by warmly congratulating the President on his election to preside over this session of the General Assembly. He brings to his role a wealth ...

I should like to express my sincere congratulations to Mr. Joseph Garba on his unanimous election as President of the General Assembly at this session. His qua...

One does not usually say anything personal from this podium. I would submit, however, that my position does allow me to depart from this role. Exactly two yea...

 Half a world away from this place of peace, the firing, the killing, the bloodshed in two merciless conflicts have for the first time in recent memory diminis...

 My delegation expresses its warmest congratulations to you, Sir, a worthy representative of the German Democratic Republic - a bastion of peace and socialism ...

I congratulate Mr. de Pinies, a prominent diplomatic representative of a country with which we are developing mutually beneficial co-operation, on his election ...

 The Soviet delegation has instructed me Sir, to congratulate you on your election to the honourable post of President of the forty-second session of the Gener...

My task as head of the delegation of the Soviet Union to the General Assembly has been greatly facilitated by two fundamental statements made by Mikhail S. Gor...

I have stood upon this platform on many occasions, and I well remember every speech I have given here since 1985. This is perhaps because, first, I cannot conce...

 First of all, Mr. President, I should like to congratulate you on your election to the high post which you occupy. This is not only a tribute to your very gre...

I wish first of all to offer you, Mr. President, my warm congratulations on your election to your high office. You are guiding the foreign policy of a country ...

We all come in turn to this important rostrum to speak of our perception of the world, our combined efforts produce a picture of present day international reali...

I wish at the outset warmly to congratulate the President on his election to preside over the General Assembly at this forty-first session. I have every confide...

 As my first duty, permit me, Sir, to congratulate you on your election to the important and honourable post of President of the General Assembly at the curren...

Sir, permit me first of all to congratulate you upon your election to the high post of President of the united Nations General Assembly for the fortieth session...