Speeches by Ursula Plassnik

We Austrians unfailingly keep the United Nations in high esteem. Let me try to explain why. Austria became a Member of the United Nations in December 1955. That...

Let me address at the outset a burning issue: the situation in Myanmar/Burma. We join the call of many, including our partners in the European Union and in t...

“United in diversity”: this motto of the European Union expresses what we, the 25 — and soon to be 27 — member States of the European Union, demand from ours...

These days, on our television screens, images of thousands of parents concerned about the health of their babies and children remind us of what lies at the v...