Speeches from 1979

Mr. President, I should like to extend to you my warmest congratulations on your unanimous election to the presidency of this session. Your election is an expr...

Sir, in extending to you our most sincere congratulations on your outstanding election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly, the ...

It is a welcome tradition in each session of the General Assembly to begin policy statements by paying a tribute to the President of the General Assembly and o...

Permit me first, Sir, to extend to you the warmest congratulations of the Albanian delegation on your election to the important post of President of the thirty...

Mr. President, a well-deserved tribute has unanimously been paid to you and, through you, to your country, by your unanimous election to the presidency of the ...

First of all, I wish to convey to Mr. Salim our profound satisfaction at seeing him occupying the high post of President of this session of the General Assembl...

It gives me particular pleasure to address the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly, meeting as it is under the presidency of Ambassador Salim. The Au...

Mr. President, it is a particular pleasure for me to see you presiding over this General Assembly. I wish to congratulate you most sincerely on your election. ...

Mr. President, I have great pleasure on behalf of the State of Bahrain in offering you my sincere congratulations on the occasion of your election as President...

The members of my delegation and I deem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of participating in the deliberations of the thirty-fourth session of the ...

Mr. President, at a time when the question of the speed with which this Organization can proceed with the decolonization of the remaining non-independent Terri...

On behalf of the delegation of the Byelorussian SSRI wish to convey our sincere congratulations to the people, the Government and the Socialist Unity Party of ...

1. The sudden events through which we have lived this year have brought about a lack of confidence in the future and the feeling that less than ever before are...

First and foremost, may I be allowed to express here the feelings of deep sadness of my delegation at the cruel loss of two of the most courageous sons of Afri...

Mr. President, I have the honour to convey, through you Sir, to all the representatives the good wishes of His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, ...

Mr. President, it is a unique privilege for me to be here at this rostrum from which outstanding personalities, Heads of Government and State from all parts of...

Mr. President, it gives me personally, and the entire Botswana delegation, great pleasure and satisfaction that you, a representative of the United Republic of...

As the general debate opens, I have the honour and sincere pleasure of conveying to you, Sir, the first expressions of congratulations on your election to the ...

Sir, permit me, first of all, to express the genuine satisfaction of the Bulgarian delegation at seeing the responsible post of President of the General Assemb...

May I begin by conveying to Ambassador Salim of the United Republic of Tanzania the warm congratulations of the delegation of Burma on his election to the pres...