Speeches from 2013

May I first congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I am confident that the current session...

I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the delegation of Romania. First, I welcome last night’s adoption of Security Council resolution 2118 (2013), ...

International relations are becoming increasingly complex and multidimensional, while developments in the world are even more rapid and less predictable. Und...

Thirteen years ago, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established humanitarian principles for the twenty-first century. Together, Member States and int...

I address the General Assembly today with a sense of deep humility — humility in the wake of the great architects of world peace who have stood here before m...

I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I also wish also to thank you for your continued strong suppor...

On behalf of the Government of San Marino, I wish to congratulate His Excellency Mr. John Ashe on his election as President of the of the General Assembly at...

On behalf of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, the country that I have the honour of representing in the highest forum of international diplo...

On behalf of the Senegalese delegation, I would like to wish you, Sir, all the best as President at the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly. By fo...

It is my great honour to address the General Assembly on behalf of the Republic of Serbia and inform members about the positions held by my country on some i...

It is with great honour that I address the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session on behalf of the President of the Republic of Seychelles, Mr. James A...

I bring you sincere greetings and very best wishes from His Excellency Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. President Koroma reg...

I warmly congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election as President at the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly and wish him success during his term. O...

To address the General Assembly on behalf of Slovak citizens is a great responsibility. It is a great responsibility for all of us who have been entrusted wi...

I would like to congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election and wish him every success. Let me also pay tribute to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and thank him...

It is with much pride that the Government and the people of the Solomon Islands join me in congratulating a fellow islander, Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua ...

It is an honour for me to be here today, as this it is my first time addressing this esteemed and respected body, the General Assembly, as President of Somal...

It is an honour and a privilege for me to once again address this body. South Africa attaches the utmost importance to the General Assembly as the most repre...

It is a great honour for me to address the Assembly for the first time as Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan. First, I would like to express the h...

On behalf of Spain, I would like to congratulate Ambassador Ashe on his new responsibility as President of the General Assembly and to convey to him our firm...