Speeches from 1997

Mr. President, your election to preside over the fifty-second session of the General Assembly is a fitting and well-deserved result of your distinguished servi...

I should like at the outset to extend my warmest compliments to His Excellency Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, Foreign Minister of Ukraine, on his assumption last week ...

It gives me great pleasure to begin my statement by congratulating you, Mr. President, and the Government and people of your friendly country on your election ...

First of all, I would like to congratulate the President on his election to his high office, which convincingly proves that the international prestige of Ukrai...

Allow me, at the outset, to convey to you, Sir, on behalf of my delegation, my warm congratulations on your election as the President of the fifty-second sessi...

Allow me first of all, on behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to congratulate Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, the Minister For Foreig...

I congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly and pledge to you our full support and cooperation. I a...

It gives me pleasure to convey to the President the greetings of His Excellency Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah, Acting Prime Minister and Minister fo...

Allow me, on behalf of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and its people, to congratulate my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Udov...

In accordance with tradition, I take this opportunity to begin by congratulating the President most warmly on his assumption of the presidency of the fifty-sec...

Allow me to congratulate the President on his election and express my confidence in his leadership during a crucially important session of the General Assembly...

Allow me to extend our thanks to the outgoing President, Ambassador Razali Ismail, and to congratulate him on the way in which he fulfilled his mandate. I woul...

Allow me to extend to Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko the sincere congratulations of my delegation on his election to the presidency of the fifty- second session of the ...

I have the honour to present my personal compliments to His Excellency Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko and to wish him every success during his presidency. 24 I have t...

Allow me, at the outset, to express to Mr. Udovenko, on behalf of my country’s delegation, our 21 warm congratulations on his election to the presidency of t...

On behalf of the Liechtenstein Government, I should like to congratulate the President on his election to preside over the fifty-second session of the General ...

Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your election to your honourable post. You may count on our full support and dedication to your goals. You, Si...

First of all, I should like to extend my warmest congratulations to you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-second 8 ...

First of all, Sir, allow me to congratulate you on your election as President of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly of the United Nations and to ...

The success of a session of our General Assembly lies heavily with its President, the chief catalyser and conductor of our work during the session; with the st...