Speeches by Xavier Bettel

**Colleagues,** It is an honour to stand before you once again and to speak about the state of the world as we see it. I have listened to many speeches, and w...

Our debate is being held under the theme of restoring trust and reviving global solidarity. President Dennis Francis has rightly called on us to accelerate acti...

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear friends, We will remember this year — 2020. What a year! We cannot meet as we usually do in the Hall, which, once a ye...

It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly for the first time, and I must say that I do so with great emotion. Commitment, solidarity and r...

Yesterday, our Secretary-General provided his view of the international situation and the challenges that we all face (see A/73/PV.6). His view was a mixed one...

May I first of all congratulate Mr. Thompson on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy- first session. I wish also to take this...

First of all, I would like to endorse what my colleague Mr. Charles Michel just said on behalf of the European Union, since I come from a generation that has ne...

I would like to begin on a personal note by thanking the previous speaker, Charles Michel, who will be stepping down from the Belgian Government in a few months...

I must say that it is with emotion that I am speaking to the General Assembly today. I still recall that last year we talked to each other through a screen, wit...