Speeches from 2011

In taking the floor for the first time before this Assembly, I offer my heartfelt thanks to the international community and all the friendly countries that h...

It is a distinct pleasure for me to participate in the general debate of the General Assembly for the first time since my election as President of Croatia. ...

I am pleased to welcome the Government of South Sudan as a State Member of the United Nations. I also join the appeal by all African leaders for an urgent, e...

I congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I express the support of the Cypriot delegation, a...

Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the very important post of the highest representative of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth sessi...

Allow me, at the outset, to commend the President of the General Assembly and his whole team for their election to the Bureau of the General Assembly at its ...

First of all, I would like to align myself with the statement made by the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman van Rompuy, on behalf of the European...

Allow me to warmly congratulate the President on his accession to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- sixth session. With his experience and ...

On behalf of my delegation and the Government and the people of the Commonwealth of Dominica, I would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulazi...

We extend our warmest congratulations to the Ambassador from Qatar, Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, on his recent election as President of the General Assem...

In June 2009, humankind was still witnessing with perplexity the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and its devastating consequences on employm...

I am pleased to congratulate the brotherly State of Qatar and Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser personally on his election as President of the General As...

This new session of the Assembly of the United Nations brings us together at what is no doubt an historic time of great importance, as has been said in one ...

I participate in this debate of the General Assembly in our dual position as President in Office of the African Union and President of the Republic of Equato...

Allow me begin by congratulating the President of the General Assembly and his country, Qatar, on his election to preside over the Assembly at this session, ...

I would first of all like to congratulate Ambassador Al-Nasser on assuming the presidency of the General Assembly. The twentieth anniversary this year of t...

It gives me great pleasure to congratulate the President on his election to lead the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I wish to assure him of the...

I bring warm greetings to all from the Government and people of Fiji. May I take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Al-Nasser on his election to the presid...

Let me start by congratulating both the President and the Secretary- General on their elections. We live in an era of integration and interconnection. No c...

When we met in this very place in September last year, who among us could have imagined that in barely one year the world, already shaken by an unprecedented...