Speeches from 2014

I would first of all like to extend my sincere congratulations to Mr. Sam Kutesa on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth sess...

Thanks be to the almighty Allah for giving me another opportunity to address this global body at a time when human civilization is teetering on the brink of ...

It is a great honour for me to represent my country here at the United Nations. In recent years, the world has witnessed Georgia’s unwavering transformation ...

The year 2014 is a special one for Europeans — a special year of commemoration. In the summer 100 years ago, European diplomacy failed and the world slid int...

Change has become an overriding theme in the language of today`s social and political landscape. We speak of the need to change behaviours, attitudes and law...

This sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly is taking place in a global context full of challenges, testing the efficiency of the current international s...

I would like, first of all, to thank the outgoing President, Mr. John Ashe, for his sterling efforts in presiding over the sixty-eighth session of the Genera...

I would like to begin my remarks by conveying our greetings to Mr. Sam Kutesa, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. At the same time...

Fourteen years ago, in this very Hall, the international community, in a promising move, pledged to attain a series of common goals by 2015, essentially, to ...

On behalf of the President of the Republic, Mr. José Mário Vaz, and on my own behalf, and in the name of the State and people of Guinea-Bissau, I would like ...

I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at this year’s session. I wish also to commend your p...

Since the Charter of the United Nations was adopted in San Francisco, the international community has made it a true act of faith in setting up a new interna...

In extending the Holy See’s congratulations to Mr. Sam Kutesa on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, I wish to...

I am Juan Orlando Hernández. I was born in a humble village called Rio Grande, in the department of Lempira, a region with very high rates of inequality and ...

“If you seek peace, prepare for war.” Those are the words of Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’ fourth- or fifth-century tract De Re Militari, written more than ...

Next year we will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations. As we approach that milestone, it is good to reflect on the successes of our Or...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. It is a truly a great...

It is a great honour for me to stand once again before the Assembly — the last time I shall do so in my two terms as President of Indonesia. I could not agre...

At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to extend my sincere congratulations on your well-deserved election as the President of the General Assembly at it...

I salute the General Assembly on behalf of Iraq and congratulate Mr. Sam Kahamba Kutesa on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-nin...