Speeches from 2003

Please allow me to convey my delegation’s warmest congratulations to Mr. Julian Hunte on his election to the high office of President of the General Assembly a...

Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Allow me also to express our...

I wish to begin by congratulating the President, on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session and wish him every success wi...

The past two years have been years of near apocalyptic ordeal for the world and this great Organization. In rapid succession, the world and this Organization h...

Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. You are assuming your duties at a difficult junc...

It is with a deep sense of pride and pleasure that my delegation congratulates you, Sir, on your unanimous election to the presidency of the General Assembly a...

I come before this parliament of humankind to present my final report as a Head of State who believes in interdependence and for whom sovereignty is not a clos...

On 19 August 2003, the international community took a blow to the body in Baghdad in odious acts that caused the tragic loss of approximately 20 United Nations...

You have assumed the presidency of the General Assembly, Sir, at a particularly critical time, when the applicability of rules, the reliability of mechanisms a...

It is a great pleasure for me to address the General Assembly under the presidency of a fellow citizen of our Caribbean Community. Allow me to extend our warme...

It is my honour to greet the President on behalf of the people of Haiti, and I congratulate our dear friend and brother Mr. Julian Hunte, President of this ses...

This is the first time that I come the house of the peoples of the United Nations. This is also a crucial time in history, as it is for the Organization. A few...

Allow me to extend to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session. You may rest ass...

Allow me at the outset to congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of this General Assembly. The role of the President in providing overall...

Mr. President, we congratulate you on your election to the presidency of the fifty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. We wish you every suc...

Allow me to begin by drawing the General Assembly’s attention to the fact that, despite all its deficiencies and weaknesses, it must be admitted that the Unite...

I would like to express my cordial congratulations to the President for presiding over this important session of the General Assembly. I wish also to express m...

Today I stand before the Assembly representing the voice of the Iraqi citizen who long suffered from cruelty within and outside his homeland. Those within his ...

For the United Nations and the system of collective security that it represents, the past year has been a traumatic one. Our Organization could ill afford the ...

I would like to congratulate His Excellency, the Foreign Minister of Saint Lucia, upon his assumption of the Presidency of the General Assembly, and wish him m...