Speeches from 2006

New Zealand remains unwavering in its support for the United Nations. Our commitment has not changed since we helped found the Organization 61 years ago. Thi...

Allow me to begin by congratulating the 192nd Member State, Montenegro, upon its accession to membership of the United Nations. On 5 November, elections wil...

Allow me to express the warmest congratulations of the delegation of Niger to Ms. Al-Khalifa upon her election to the presidency of the General Assembly at i...

I bring you, Madam President, good tidings from Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who could not b...

The United Nations is now more at the centre of international affairs than it has been for many years. We see the Secretary-General and his staff driving dip...

It gives me great pleasure, Madam, to extend my warmest congratulations to you and your country, the Kingdom of Bahrain, on your assumption of the presidency...

I am indeed very happy to see a sister from fraternal Bahrain presiding over the General Assembly at this important session. Your election, Madam, symbolizes...

Let me begin by offering my congratulations to you, Madam President. We would also like to thank former Assembly President Jan Eliasson for his able leadersh...

I would like to start by congratulating Ms. Haya Rashed Al- Khalifa on her election to preside over this session and to wish her success in achieving the obje...

I should like to say how pleased the Government of Panama is at your election, Madam, to preside over the sixty-first session of the General Assembly. Your i...

I wish to convey Papua New Guinea’s congratulations to you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first s...

Madam President, may I tell you how happy Paraguay is to see you presiding over the sixty-first session of the General Assembly. Your personal and professiona...

First, allow me to express to you, Madam President, our congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session. I should a...

It gives me great pleasure, Madam, to extend to you the felicitations of my Government and our people, and my own congratulations, on your well-deserved elec...

Let me begin by extending my congratulations to Her Excellency Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa from the Kingdom of Bahrain on the occasion of her election as Presiden...

I would like to begin, like previous speakers, by extending my warmest congratulations to Ms. Haya Rasheed Al- Khalifa, the first woman in nearly 40 years to ...

It gives me pleasure at the outset to congratulate you, Madam President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-first sessio...

Let me begin by congratulating the presidency on the success of the High-level Meeting on the least developed countries, earlier in the week. I had the honou...

It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you, Madam, on your election as President of the General Assembly. The Romanian delegation looks forward to a pres...

Traditionally, the General Assembly session provides an opportunity to conduct a review of the current situation in the world, identify major international i...