Speeches by Sharp

Mankind is increasingly feeling the winds of the twenty-first century. What they bring depends on all of us, on whether or not we succeed in responding collecti...

Every generation faces its own challenges but no generation has faced a challenge as urgent and formidable as that confronting us in climate change and global w...

Within the past few years the world has witnessed a series of momentous and dramatic political events. These followed closely on the remarkable changes is East...

May I, first of all, express my sincere congratulations to you on your election as President of the United Nations General Assembly during its forty-sixth sess...

May I first. Sir, on behalf of my delegation and on behalf of the Government and people of Gabon, convey to Ambassador Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria our warm congr...

83. Madam President, our Permanent Representative to this Organization has. already extended to you, on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago delegation, our warmes...

 Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, and to wish you success in presiding ove...

I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate you most sincerely on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session. My dele...

I extend cordial greetings from the Government and the people of Grenada, on whose behalf I am always honoured to address this noble institution and its members...

Our strength is in our unity. That lesson — that together we can achieve much more than we can alone — is a lesson that the world of today is learning in circum...

On behalf of the Government and people of Venezuela, I wish to congratulate you, Sir, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Côte d’Ivoire, on your election as Presiden...

25. Mr. President, on behalf of the Government of Finland, I wish to extend to you our congratulations on your election as President of this thirty-sixth sessio...

Sir, it is my honour and privilege on behalf of the Government of His Majesty King Mswati III and the peace-loving people of the Kingdom of Swaziland, to conve...

It surely must be one of the great ironies of our age that this Assembly is being addressed, for the first time in its 49 years’ history, by a South African Hea...

It is with a special sense of satisfaction that I wish to congratulate Mr. Ganev on his unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fo...

 Mr. President, I wish at the outset to convey to you the best wishes of the President of the Republic of Kenya, the Honourable Daniel T. Arap Mai, and his hop...

60. Mr. President, you come to the leadership of the General Assembly at a time when eastern Asia stands in the center of international concern. It is in that ...

I should like to begin by extending a warm welcome to the new States Members of the United Nations. Colombia hopes to be allied with all of them as they striv...

 I congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session. Your wide experience and diplomatic skills will no dou...

48. May I first offer you, Sir, the fiM support and cooperation of the Canadian delegation in the performance of the great responsibility you have accepted as...