Speeches from 1974

Mr. President, I particularly welcome this opportunity of associating myself with the speakers who preceded me to this rostrum to extend our congratulations and...

My first very pleasant duty is to convey to you all the personal greetings and salutations of Mr. Siaka Stevens, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. To s...

Mr. President, permit me to congratulate you on your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly. You have the distinction of being the younges...

: It is for me a great honor and privilege to address this Assembly in my capacity both as current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity [OA U] and as h...

As representative of Spain to this session of the General Assembly, I should like first, Sir, to congratulate you on your election as President. Your personal q...

Rarely, if ever, in the history of the United Nations has a President of the General Assembly been elected unanimously and without the whimsical aberration of a...

Mr. President, all of us assembled here have worked, negotiated or chatted with you at one time or another. We know that you are the outcome of prowess in war a...

Mr. President, those who have addressed this Assembly before me have ably expressed their congratulations to you on your unanimous election as President of the ...

On behalf of Sweden, I wish to join in the congratulations that have been addressed to Foreign Minister Bouteflika on his election as President of the twenty-ni...

Mr. President, permit me at the outset to address to you my most sincere congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of this session of the General Ass...

Mr. President, it is most fitting that the twenty-ninth session of the. General Assembly is presided over by an illustrious son of Africa. For it is Africa whi...

The heavy responsibility of conducting the proceedings of the General Assembly, assumed in such an exemplary fashion and with such remarkable mastery and outsta...

Mr. President, the Tunisian delegation is happy to associate itself with all the speakers who have already congratulated you on your election as President of th...

Mr. President, first I should like to extend my warmest congratulations to you upon your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly. Your long...

Mr. President, allow me the privilege of associating my delegation with the hearty congratulations already expressed by many delegations on your election to the...

28. Mankind is approaching a memorable date the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The years that have passed since then have been filled...

Mr. President, on behalf of the Soviet delegation, I should like to congratulate you upon your election to the important post of President of the twenty-ninth s...

We have learned with great sorrow of the passing of Mr. Paul Hoffman, the former Managing Director of the Special Fund and Administrator of UNDP. A man of inter...

Mr. President, I thank you for calling upon me at this late hour when the prospect of lunch must be so much more alluring than the thought of another indigestib...

For many years, from this rostrum and others, the non-aligned countries have constantly called for peace and detente -a far-reaching general detente which woul...