Speeches by U Thant

1. Mr. President, may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election to this very high and important office. Your distinguished career as a public...

97. The twenty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly has opened and is pursuing its work at an especially difficult moment in the development of ...

1. First of all, Mr. President, it is my pleasant duty to convey to you on behalf of the President of my country his most affectionate congratulations. The Gene...

78. Madam President, allow me to congratulate you on your election as our President. In the exercise of the functions of your high office you will be able to d...

87. Madam President, my delegation is happy to add its voice, with all the warmth and sympathy of a member of the Afro-Asian group, to the mounting chorus of tr...

80. Mr. President, at the outset of my statement I want to extend to you the warmest congratulations of my delegation upon your election as President of the Ge...

35. The delegation of the Republic of Guinea to the Twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, at a time when the international commu...

117. Mr. President, let me begin by congratulating you on your unanimous election to the office of President and by wishing you every success In your condu...

Once again I should like to reaffirm in a few words from this podium the perseverance with which Upper Volta stands side by side with all the other nations repr...

62. I should be giving no evidence whatsoever of originality if I were to recognize, along with all of the preceding speakers, that the opening of a dialog bet...

112. Mr. President. I am happy to convey to you our sincere congratulations on your election as President of the twenty-sixth session of the General Assembly....

66. First of all, Mr. President, I should like to offer you, on behalf of the delegation of Cameroon, my warmest congratulations on your brilliant election as P...

53. Mr. President, on behalf of the Japanese delegation, I wish to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on your election to the Presidency of the twenty-f...

1. Madam President, let me begin by congratulating you on your election to the high position of President of the General Assembly. Africa, your own country and ...

191. Before delivering my speech, 1 should like to express the condolences of my delegation to the delegation of Honduras on the occasion of the death this morn...

40. I am grateful to you, Mr. President, for the opportunity afforded me to make the position of my country clear on the major issues now being agitated in this...

Mr. President, allow me to offer our congratulations to you upon your election. We are very fortunate in having chosen a colleague of such notable experience in...

Mr. President, I should like to congratulate you whole-heartedly, on behalf of the Austrian delegation, on your election as President of the eighteenth session ...

1. The great honour has fallen to me, Mr. President, of presenting to you, on behalf of my Government and my delegation, our heartiest congratulations on your s...

98. Mr. President, I should like to convey to you the Dahomean delegation's warmest congratulations on your election as President of this session of the Uni...