Speeches by STREET

For the past three years the President of Honduras has come to this global forum to propose simple, honest, straightforward ways of responding to the great ...

1. It is the established practice of the General Assembly to begin the work of each session with a general debate in which it takes stock of the previous year’s...

First of all, let me congratulate His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, I wish him ...

Costa Rica is extremely pleased at Mr. Didier Operttiâs election to preside over the work of this fifty-third session of the General Assembly. We say this not j...

Please allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the exalted office of President of the General Assembly. Your distinguished career and your experi...

Many years ago, I proposed in the Assembly that policy statements should be limited to 20 to 25 minutes. I have attempted and will attempt today to do that. The...

At the resumption of the first session of the General Assembly, the Argentine delegation wishes to state its views on a number of questions. Politics are determ...

Forty years ago, on the ruins of Nazi fascism and of the infamous and ignominious "New Order" that Hitler's hordes tried to impose on mankind, the peoples of th...

At this general debate of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, I convey to the Assembly a Christian, socialist greeting of solidarity from the pe...

I come from the South. At the conjunction of the Atlantic and the River Plate, my country is a gentle, temperate plain where livestock graze. Its history is ...

I should like first to congratulate you most warmly, Sir, on your election as President. The Assembly could not have made a wiser choice. I wish you all good fo...

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...

Sir, allow me to begin by offering you the warmest felicitations of the delegation of the Union of Myanmar on your assumption of the presidency of the General ...

I wish, first of all, to pay a well-deserved tribute to the men who are fighting in Korea. In particular I wish to pay a tribute to those who not being of Korea...

I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly.This session takes place at an important mome...

1. As the General Assembly convenes, our interest is without doubt concentrated primarily on the Korean question. The Swedish delegation expounded during the re...

 First, I should like to congratulate you, Mr. Dante Caputo, upon your election to the presidency of the forty-third session of the General Assembly, Your elev...

A year ago, I delivered my address at this very place as the President of a country of 38 million people (see A/76/PV.4). Today I stand at this rostrum with the...

I wish to join Sir Leslie Munro's numerous friends in expressing to him the hearty congratulations of my delegation on his election to the presidency of the twe...

Chile's first words in this thirty-first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations are to congratulate Mr. Amerasinghe upon his election to the pres...