Speeches from 1988

 There is an awesome power that pervades this Hall and the universe. It is a power that instils courage in the weak and humility in the strong. It is the timel...

 For the past few years, we have been meeting hers with the financial crisis hanging over the United Nations like the sword of Damocles. Today the financial cr...

 Sir, permit me to extend to you my congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-third session. I am confident that with ...

I should like at the outset. Sir, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, to congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the General Assemb...

 The election, as President of the General Assembly, of a dear friend and colleague has been for me a source of great satisfaction. I should like to congratula...

Let me at the outset, on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka, extend to Mr. Caputo of Argentina, our sincere congratulations on his election to the presidenc...

I warmly welcome this opportunity to extend to you. Sir, the congratulations of the delegation of St. Kitts and Nevis on your election to the eminent post of P...

It gives me great pleasure to extend to you. Sir, our warn congratulations on your election as President of the current session of the General Assembly, which ...

Mandated by a free and determined people through the most adequate mechanism to designate by whom they wish to be governed, namely, free and fair general elect...

Sir, it is my honour and privilege on behalf of the Government of His Majesty King Mswati III and the peace-loving people of the Kingdom of Swaziland, to conve...

Forty years ago this month, my compatriot Count Police Bernadotte was murdered during his mission as United Nations mediator on Palestine. His name reminds us ...

 It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Mr. Dante Caputo on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-second session. His country...

 I should like to begin by congratulating Mr. Dante Caputo on his well-deserved election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-third session. ...

On behalf of the delegation of Thailand, and on my own behalf, I should like to convey to Mr. Dante Caputo our warmest congratulations on his election to the p...

I should like first of all to express the warmest congratulations of the delegation of Ito go to Mr, Dante Caputo on his election as President of this forty-th...

 it is indeed a pleasure and an honour for me to convey to Mr. Dante Caputo, on behalf of the Government and people of Trinidad and Tobago, our sincere congrat...

It is a great pleasure for me, speaking on behalf of the Tunisian delegation and on my own behalf, to congratulate the Ambassador of Argentina on his election ...

 It gives me great pleasure to extend warm congratulations to Mr. Dante Caputo of Argentina on his election to the presidency of the forty-third session of the...

On behalf of the United Arab Emirates it gives me great pleasure to extend to Ambassador Caputo ray heartfelt congratulations on his election as President of t...

 Sir, may I offer you my congratulations on taking up the presidency of the General Assembly and send my warm thanks to the outgoing President, the Deputy Fore...