Speeches from 1979

I wish first to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to your distinguished position as President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly. You g...

Mr. President, we of the Republic of Suriname, should like to begin by telling you how much we welcome your election as President of this General Assembly, a s...

It gives me great pleasure to extend to you, Sir, and to the friendly people of the United Republic of Tanzania warmest felicitations on your election as Presi...

It is with great pleasure, and a modest measure of pride, that I congratulate you, Sir, on behalf of the Tanzania delegation, upon your assumption of the high ...

I wish at the outset, on behalf of my Government and my delegation, to extend to Ambassador Salim, a great son of Africa, my warm congratulations on his electi...

Throughout the world people are wondering whether next year will succeed in being the year of justice for the peoples, since 1979 has been for the third world,...

On behalf of the Government and people of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and on my own behalf, I take great pleasure in extending to you, Sir, our sincer...

The delegation of Tunisia is happy at Mr. Salim's election as President of the thirty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly. We feel sure that ...

It is a great pleasure for me to join the previous speakers in congratulating President Salim most warmly on his election to the high office he now occupies. A...

This is the first time that I have had the honour of addressing the United Nations. But no one who has lived through the last 34 years can fail to have been co...

We meet in this General Assembly on the threshold of a new decade. It will be a time of complex challenge, a period in which, more than ever, co-operative ende...

Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on the occasion of your election to this most responsible position and to express the conviction that your activiti...

 It gives me tremendous pleasure and pride to convey to you, Sir, in the name of the Uganda National Liberation Front and on behalf of the entire people of Uga...

Permit me, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly and to wish you suc...

On behalf of my country, I have the honour of extending my most sincere congratulations to Mr. Salim on his election as President of the thirty-fourth session ...

Upper Volta, through me, wishes to express its great satisfaction, Mr. President, at seeing you presiding over this thirty-fourth session of the General Assemb...

I should like to begin by congratulating Mr. Salim on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly, in which office, we are sure, he will act with th...

Mr. President, my address today will be published in its entirety just as I wrote it. Because of its length, however, I shall now read it out in a shortened fo...

On behalf of my Government, I extend to the President my most sincere congratulations on the high honour conferred upon him on his election as President of the...

May I first convey to you, Mr. President, our warmest congratulations on your brilliant election to the high office of President of the thirty-fourth session o...