Speeches by Stray

Mr. President, my dear friend and colleague, I take especial pleasure in telling you how gratified we Costa Ricans feel to see you presiding over the General A...

Ten years ago, Switzerland joined the United Nations, thus becoming both the 190th Member State and the first country in which United Nations membership was ap...

The Government of Iraq which I have the honour to represent before this Assembly, strongly upholds the principles of the United Nations Charter, and is convince...

177. Regular sessions of the General Assembly are nothing exceptional because we have become accustomed to them. But the present session should be of particul...

In a year of frightful tragedy and uncertainty, we were at least fortunate to have the charisma and leadership of Mr. Han Seung-soo, as President of the fifty-...

“We, the peoples” is a powerful rendition of world affairs and a daunting portrait of life for future generations. It took intellect and diplomatic savoir-faire...

The world is undergoing a time of change. A new era is dawning while humankind is still coping with the effects of a pandemic that killed 15 million people, exp...

We, the Togolese people, are profoundly and sincerely attached to peace and the union of our countrymen; for we know that we are not alone in the world and that...

113. Mr. President, I am happy to congratulate you upon your election to your high office at this twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly. The Norwegian p...

First of all I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly and to express our confidence in your ability t...

 I should first like to associate myself with all previous speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on your election to the great office of President of this ses...

As Mr. Peter Thomson of Fiji assumes the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, I wish to recognize that historic occasion for Pacific...

First of all, permit me to take this opportunity to associate the South African delegation with the tributes which have been paid from this rostrum to those who...

I should like first of all. Sir, to convey to you my most sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. You represent a co...

83. Permit me to take this opportunity to pay to you, Madam President, the respectful tribute which is your due, and to offer you the congratulations of the Gov...

27. First, Mr. President, I gladly offer to you my congratulations on your election. It is altogether fitting that the distinguished representative of a country...

Let me begin by expressing the deep sympathy we all feel with the people of Mexico following the serious earthquakes that struck their country and their capital...

 On behalf of the Mauritanian delegation, Sir, may I first congratulate you on your well-deserved election to the presidency or the forty-second session of the...

At the outset, Sir, I wish to congratulate you on your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. 21. During the last few years we have...

In the name of the people and Government of Colombia, allow me to congratulate Ambassador Shihabi of Saudi Arabia on his election to the presidency of this ses...