Speeches from 2013

At the outset, I would like to join previous speakers in congratulating the President of the General Assembly on his election to serve at its sixty-eighth se...

Each year we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution. For most of recorded history, individual aspirations were subject to the whim...

In the year 2000, we met here and agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for 2015. They are: Goal 1, the eradication of extreme poverty and hunge...

First of all, on behalf of Ukraine, I sincerely congratulate Mr. John William Ashe on his election to serve as President of the General Assembly at its sixty...

In my lifetime, the world has been sliced up and labelled in many different ways: East and West; communism and capitalism; North and South; Christian and Mus...

I come from the South. At the conjunction of the Atlantic and the River Plate, my country is a gentle, temperate plain where livestock graze. Its history is ...

The rapidly changing situation, growing tensions, radicalization, security challenges and threats in various regions of the world today cannot but raise seri...

The Republic of Vanuatu is honoured to participate in this debate under your presidency, Sir, and we wish to associate ourselves with all other delegations i...

At the outset, on behalf of the people and the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Nicolás Maduro Moros, I would like to convey to General...

It is a distinct honour for me to address this forum. I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to Mr. John Ashe on his assumption of the presidency o...

Allow me, at the outset to extend sincere my congratulations to Ambassador John Ashe, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. We are c...

At the outset, I wish to congratulate His Excellency Mr. John. Ashe on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I am co...

Let me begin by extending my warmest congratulations to Mr. John William Ashe on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth sessio...