Speeches by U Thant

50. Mr. President, I take pleasure in congratulating you upon your well-deserved election to the presidency of this Assembly, and I should like to take this op...

First of all, Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you most warmly, on behalf of the Cyprus delegation, on your election to the Presidency of this session of t...

Mr. President, I am very pleased to be able now to pay tribute to the great statesman and man of law, Edvard Hambro, who so successfully and brilliantly preside...

Mr. President, it is my honour and privilege to extend to you on behalf of the delegation of the Federation of Malaya our sincere congratulations on your well-d...

80. Mr. President, I wish at the outset to congratulate you on your unanimous election to the Presidency of the General Assembly at its twenty-second session. W...

160. It is an auspicious omen, we trust, that the very first two substantive matters, this session has had to deal with were both important steps towards the co...

Colombia, and the delegation which represents it, are particularly gratified by your election as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. We fee...

1. Mr. President, may I, on behalf of the Ghana delegation, congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly. The great qualities whi...

153. Mr. President, it is my happy task to congratulate you, on behalf of the Somali Government, on your election to the high office of President of the Gener...

Mr. President, I should like to join my colleagues--the 115 of them who have spoken so far-in congratulating you on your election to the presidency. Under your ...

125. The delegation of Ceylon is taking this opportunity of adding its own tribute to the many that have already, in the course of the general debate, been paid...

Mr. President, in the name of the Syrian Arab delegation and on my own behalf, I am happy to extend to you our warmest felicitations on the occasion of your ele...

1. Mr. President, allow me first, on behalf of Cambodia, to offer you our very sincere congratulations on your unanimous election to the Presidency of the ninet...

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of Ghana I am happy, first of all, to offer you our warmest congratulations on your election as President of this eig...

147. It is an honour and a pleasure for the Argentine delegation to offer its congratulations to the President on his appointment to preside over the General As...

Mr. President, I have already had an opportunity, a few days ago, to congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly. But with your ...

38. Mr. President, permit me to offer you, on behalf of the delegation of Czechoslovakia, sincere congratulations on your election to an important and respo...

46. On behalf of the Japanese delegation I wish to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Ambassador Benites on his assumption of the presidency of the twenty...

Mr. President, may I be permitted to greet you as the representative of a friendly nation which served as a model of resistance to all those who, refusing to su...

78. The delegation of Cuba to this Assembly has pleasure in first of all performing the agreeable duty of welcoming three new nations to the already large numbe...