Speeches from 1979

A birth in a family is naturally a source of joy and of hope. Thus the people of Burundi share the legitimate pride of the people of Saint Lucia on their acces...

Sir, may I be permitted, first of all, to offer you the warmest fraternal congratulations of the delegation of Cameroon upon your unanimous election to the hig...

 May I join my colleagues in congratulating the President on his election to the high office he now holds. He is even newer to his job than I am to mine. But w...

About four years ago we came to the General Assembly for the first time, after a long struggle for national liberation which made it possible for the people of...

A world in crisis, mankind in disarray, in peril, in danger of being swept away in a general conflagration, in an apocalyptic cataclysm, which it must ward off...

First of all, it is a signal honour and pleasant duty for me, as head of the delegation of my country, to convey my country's greetings to our Assembly, which ...

May I congratulate you, Sir, on the happy circumstance you have just referred to of your presiding over the meeting this afternoon. My country joins in congrat...

195. Allow me, first of all, to extend my congratulations to you on your election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assem...

On behalf of my Government, I should like to congratulate Mr. Salim on his election as President of the thirty-fourth regular session of the General Assembly. ...

Mr. President, first of all I should like to associate myself with the previous speakers who have extended to you warm congratulations on your unanimous electi...

Among the events which have shaken the world and especially the African continent in recent days, there is one of which we would like to make special mention: ...

On behalf of my country and my delegation, I am pleased to extend to Mr. Salim our most cordial and sincere congratulations for the well-deserved tribute paid ...

I have not come to speak about Cuba, I have not come to denounce in this Assembly the attacks to which our small but worthy country has been subjected for 20 y...

Sir, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate you on your unanimous election to the high office of President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Asse...

Mr. President, allow me1 most sincerely to thank you for the words of sympathy expressed to my country in connexion with the passing away of the outstanding Cz...

Sir, on behalf of the delegation of Democratic Kampuchea, I wish first to extend my warmest congratulations to you upon your unanimous election to the high off...

Mr. President, please accept my congratulations on your election to your high office. We are especially pleased that you, being a representative of a country w...

I should like, Sir, on behalf of my people, my Government and my President, Hajji Hassan Gouled Aptidon, to congratulate you most sincerely upon your election ...

Mr. President, the Commonwealth of Dominica wishes to congratulate you on your election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly and t...

Mr. President, permit me, in these first words, after congratulating you on the assumption of your important office, to express the confidence that we have in ...