Speeches from 2000

At the outset, I should like to congratulate the President on his well-deserved election to the presidency of this Millennium Assembly. I also want to congratul...

On behalf of the people and the Government of Thailand, I would like to extend my warm congratulations to you, Sir, upon your election to the presidency of the ...

Before discussing some of the concerns of the African continent and our views on some of the problems facing the United Nations, I should like at the outset to ...

I wish to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session. At the same time, I record my thanks and...

I am particularly pleased to express my congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. Your grea...

Our deliberations come in the wake of the historic Declaration just adopted at the Millennium Summit. Today, we look into the future with greater confidence. Ou...

Allow me, Sir, to welcome you to your post and to wish you every success in your important and difficult activities in guiding the activities of this Assembly. ...

I have the honour to convey to you, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, our sincere congratulations and regards on your election to the presidency of the fif...

I am conscious that the central problem for all of us when we rise to speak to the General Assembly is that there are too many issues of concern to hope to addr...

I am honoured to address the Assembly on behalf of the United States and to reinforce the eloquent message President C1inton conveyed during last week's Millenn...

I should like to offer the apologies of my Minister, who was to have made this statement today. He has had to travel to Winnipeg, where the future of some of ou...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at the current session and to wish you every succ...

Allow me to begin by thanking the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Namibia, Mr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, for his work as President of the fifty-fourth session of the Ge...

Allow me first of all to convey the apologies of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vanuatu, The Honourable Serge Vohor, who is unable to be here on this histor...

I again extend our congratulations to the President on his election. The Millennium Summit has charted for us a plan of action for the immediate future. We must...

I would like to convey our warm congratulations to Mr. Harri Holkeri on his election to the presidency of this fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I wi...

Permit me, at the outset, to extend to you, Mr. President, my congratulations on your election to the presidency of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assem...

I wish to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri of Finland on his election to the presidency of this historic session of the General Assembly. I also take this opportu...