Speeches from 1992

In 1989, the year in which the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war came to an end, there were 159 Member States represented in this Hall. Today, three years lat...

Allow me to congratulate you. Sir, and the friendly nation of Bulgaria on your election as President of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session. We ...

It is an honour and privilege for me to address this forty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly. On behalf of the Government and people of ...

Allow me first of all to convey to you. Sir, my most sincere congratulations, on my own behalf and that of my delegation, on your election to the presidency o...

The delegation of Sri Lanka congratulates Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria on his election as President of the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly. We ...

Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate Mr. Ganev, on behalf of my delegation, on his election to the presidency of this important session of the General Ass...

The delegation of the Republic of Suriname congratulates you most warmly. Sir, upon your election to the presidency of the forty-seventh session of the Genera...

May I begin, on behalf of His Majesty King Mswati III, Her Majesty the Indlovukazi - the Queen Mother and the whole Swazi nation, by conveying to you all the ...

I should like to offer you hearty congratulations on your election to the presidency. Sir. I am confident that this session of the General Assembly is in goo...

It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the Syrian delegation, to congratulate the new President on his election to the presidency of the forty-seventh sess...

As the first representative of the Independent Republic of Tajikistan, I wish to congratulate you. Sir, on your election to the presidency of the Assembly and...

We have come here to renew our faith and confidence in the world Organization. In a way, especially to us in Africa, the United Nations has assumed a unique ...

The euphoria and enthusiasm that greeted, no so long ago, the disappearance of ideological East-West confrontation and the progressive expansion of freedom an...

At the outset, I wish to greet this Assembly and to convey to it our esteem as well as Tunisia's appreciation for the United Nations' tireless efforts to real...

It gives me great pleasure, Sir, to congratulate you on your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. We are happy to have a distingu...

Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session. I am confiden...

I should like to extend sincere congratulations to you, Sir, on your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session...

It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates, to extend to you. Sir, sincere congratulations on your election to the pres...

I am privileged to speak this morning on behalf of the European Community and its 12 member States. It is a pleasure to do so under your guidance, Mr. Preside...

Forty-seven years ago I was a young man of 21, and, like thousands of others of my generation, I had gone off to war to help keep freedom alive. Forty-seven y...