Speeches by Sir Alec Douglas-Home

182. First of all, Mr. President, I should like on behalf of my delegation to congratulate you most warmly on your accession to the Presidency of the Assembly....

118. Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to join with my colleagues in congratulating you on your high office. Ecuador will rightly feel a reflected glor...

Mr. President, I should like to start by echoing the congratulations which my colleagues have extended to you on your assumption of office as President of the t...

Mr. President, New Zealand joins with the previous speakers in offering you its warmest congratulations on your election to the presidency. You have already bro...

79. Mr. President, I should like in the beginning to join with those of my colleagues who have spoken in saying how happy I am that we meet under your guidance ...

The first word I should like to mention as I mount this rostrum for the fifth time is hope, a difficult virtue. I am encouraged to do so, Mr. President, by your...

169. Mr. President, in welcoming you as President of our Assembly, I merely wish to say one thing. Studying the introductory statement you made on 21 September...

51. Mr. President, it is with the greatest pleasure that I address you as President of the nineteenth session of the General Assembly and extend to you, on beha...

Mr. President, I am very happy to add my congratulations to those you have already received from so many on your unanimous election as President of this session...

Every year, during the general debate, we inform each other of the undertakings and hopes of our respective countries; but our overriding duty is to deal with p...

34. It is toward Asia where all the problems of the world are in ferment, but whose ancient wisdom never shuts out the possibility of dialog, that our thoughts ...

Mr. President, in taking the floor for the- first time in this august Assembly, my delegation and I myself have the pleasant duty of conveying to you, first of ...

116. I should like, Sir, on behalf of the Irish delegation, to add my warm congratulations on your election as President of the twenty-sixth session of the Gen...

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 ...