Speeches from 2006

Before proceeding with my remarks, I wish to indicate that Cyprus, as a member of the European Union, is represented by the Union and fully subscribes to the...

Let me start by congratulating you on your election, Madam President, and by wishing you every success in the coming months of hard work. The outgoing presid...

Allow me first, on behalf of my delegation, to congratulate Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her election as President and to express my conviction that the ses...

At the outset, Sir, I would ask you to kindly convey to Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa my warm and heartfelt congratulations upon her election to the presid...

The global game has changed. Interdependence and globalization are occurring at an unprecedented speed. With globalization, the concept of national sovereign...

I would like to extend my congratulations to Her Excellency Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa and to her country, Bahrain, on her election as President of the Gener...

I am greatly honoured to congratulate Her Excellency Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa of Bahrain upon her election, the first woman from the Middle East, to presid...

The twenty-first century demands that the world develop a new vision of the concept of international law and of relations among peoples and States. A year ag...

Madam President, allow me today to pay a special tribute to Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of our Organization, for the important role he has played ov...

We wish to congratulate Ms. Al-Khalifa for her election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, with the certainty that her distingu...

Equatorial Guinea is participating in the debates of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly in the firm conviction that this world Organization rema...

On behalf of the Government and people of the State of Eritrea, I avail myself of this opportunity to extend to Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, and to the Govern...

I begin by congratulating Ms. Haya Rashed Al-Khalaifa on her assumption of the office of President of the General Assembly. We have full confidence in her an...

Allow me to extend to you, Madam President, our sincere congratulations on your assumption of the Presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first sessi...

I extend to you, Madam, the congratulations and best wishes of the Government and the people of the Fiji Islands. The General Assembly is to be commended for...

Madam President, on behalf of the European Union, I have the honour to address the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. The acceding countries Bulgar...

Lebanon has again been set ablaze by war, a further manifestation of the interminable conflict in the Middle East whose tragedies have, for 60 years now, pu...

Madam President, I should like at the outset sincerely to congratulate you on your well-deserved election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-f...

My delegation extends our heartiest congratulations to Ms. Al-Khalifa on her election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. Her el...

Let me begin by thanking this institution and all who subscribe to its values and mission for providing me — and the citizens of my nation — with the opportu...