Speeches from 2013

At the outset, I offer my condolences to the families whose loved ones died as a result of the terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Kenya. Having suffered ...

I am particularly pleased to extend congratulations to you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I am inde...

For the second time in my tenure as Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, I have the pleasure and honour to welcome a distinguished son of our ...

Today, I address the Assembly at a time when I feel great uncertainty about the future of the Organization and the established rules governing the relations ...

Allow me at the outset, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Suriname, His Excellency Mr. Desiré Delano Bouterse, and the people and the Government ...

It is a great pleasure for me to have this opportunity to join my fellow Heads of State and Government at the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly. W...

The world is constantly changing and the pace of change is increasing every year. The world is a very different place today compared to 10 years ago when the...

The world in which we live is profoundly changing, but whether it changes for the better is another matter. That is up to us. We often get the impression tha...

I would like to congratulate Mr. Ashe, the President of the General Assembly, and his friendly country, Antigua and Barbuda, on his election as President at ...

At the outset, I would like to join with those expressing their cordial congratulations to Mr. John Ashe on his election to serve as President of the General...

Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your well- deserved election to steer the affairs of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth sessi...

On behalf of the delegation of the Kingdom of Thailand, allow me to congratulate the Honourable Mr. John Ashe on his election to the presidency of the Genera...

Allow me to begin by conveying my vigorous condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks in Kenya, Pakistan and Iraq, which killed scores of innocent people. ...

At the outset, I would like, on behalf of the Head of State, the Head of Government and the people of Togo, to congratulate the General Assembly on the occas...

As this is my first time addressing the General Assembly as Head of State, I wish to sincerely congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election to the presidency o...

This evening, as the Chairperson of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I am very delighted and honoured t...

On behalf of my country, Tunisia, and the Tunisian people, I greet the Assembly and all those around the world represented here. On 17 December 2010, Tunisi...

I wish to start by extending our sincere congratulations to Mr. John Ashe on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth ses...

At the outset, allow me to express our sincere gratitude for the honour of addressing the General Assembly from this rostrum. I bring greetings from His Excel...

It is a great honour and pleasure to participate in the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly on behalf of the people and the Government of Tuvalu. At...