Speeches from 2009

Let me begin, Mr. President, by warmly congratulating you on your election and extending the best wishes of the Irish Government and the Irish people for a s...

Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years old, to a State of their own in their ancestral homel...

This morning, like all other members of the Assembly, I listened with great interest to President Obama’s statement. The President spoke from the heart with ...

I join other speakers in congratulating Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on assuming the presidency of the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. We are confident tha...

I should like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its...

First of all, I would like very warmly to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session. I am cert...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Treki on his election to the high post of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and w...

I should like to congratulate the President on the singular honour of having been chosen for the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly at its six...

I am indeed honoured to address this body on behalf of the people of Kiribati, but let me start by congratulating Mr. Ali Treki on his assumption of the pres...

It is my pleasure, Sir, to convey to you on behalf of the State of Kuwait and on my own account our most sincere congratulations on your election as Presiden...

At the outset, I should like to express our congratulations to Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his election to preside over the General Assembly. We wish him the...

At the outset, on behalf of the Lao delegation, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, on your election as President of the General Asse...

I wish to begin by congratulating the President on his assumption of the presidency at this session of the General Assembly. I pledge Latvia’s full support t...

I should like at the outset to congratulate Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and to ...

Mr. President, the theme that you have chosen for this session of the General Assembly — “Effective responses to global crises: strengthening multilateralism...

My delegation and I are honoured, for the second time, to address the General Assembly on behalf of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Government and pe...

In the name of the African Union, I would like to greet the members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and I hope that this meeting will be among...

It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly, a body that represents the heart of multilateral diplomacy, for the first time tonight. As such,...

Today the international community is striving to meet challenges that the founders of the United Nations could not have envisioned some 65 years ago. At the ...

I believe it is fair to say that we have just come through an annus horribilis: a year marked by the worldwide financial and economic crisis, the worst sinc...