Speeches from 2018

I am very grateful to be able to address the Assembly as a female Chancellor and Vice-President of the Republic of Costa Rica. I extend to the Assembly and the ...

We live in times of great opportunities and serious challenges. We are more interconnected than ever, yet the world remains divided in many ways. Technologica...

It is impossible to stand here speaking from this rostrum on behalf of Cuba and not recall historic moments before the General Assembly that are among our most ...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate the newly elected President of the General Assembly, Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, and to assure her of my Governm...

Despite all our efforts, 100 years after the end of the First World War we find ourselves in a world in which lasting peace has not yet been universally secure...

I would like to congratulate Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her auspicious election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session and...

At the outset, I would like to join others in paying tribute to the memory of the late Kofi Annan, a true world leader and a firm believer in the strength of th...

At the outset, I would like to offer our warm congratulations to the President of the General Assembly at its seventy- third session. Her many exceptional quali...

I congratulate the President of the General Assembly on her election to the presidency, and my delegation wishes her every success in a productive tenure as we ...

At the outset, I would like to congratulate Ambassador María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election as President of the General Assembly and to wish her every...

Everything in life is cause and effect, and every effect has a cause. Human beings tend to look to the past to find similarities in order to predict the future,...

I would like to congratulate Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, and to express ...

I congratulate Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, our Latin American sister, on her election to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-third session....

On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea’s independence, on 12 October, I would like to extend a greeting of peace and fre...

Let me join previous speakers in conveying our congratulations to the President for her election to lead the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. Ever...

Ten days ago I was in Ukraine, picking up syringes and empty bottles in a park next to a kindergarten in the industrial city of Dnipro. It was on the occasion o...

Allow me to start by expressing my warmest congratulations to the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. I can assure her of my d...

The European Union is fighting intensely to preserve the rules-based international order, which is currently under great strain with regard to trade, security...

Bula, and a very good day to all. Allow me to congratulate the President on her assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-third sessio...

I wish to start by paying tribute to Secretary-General António Guterres for his vision in leading the United Nations. Finland wholeheartedly supports him in his...