Speeches from 2022

It is a particular honour for me to address this session of the General Assembly because I stand here as the representative of a country, Albania, that is curre...

At the outset, I am pleased to extend to Mr. Csaba Korosi my warmest congratulations on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its current ...

After two years of absence due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, it is an honour once again to take part in person in the General Assembly. I woul...

It is a great honour to take the floor in this majestic Hall of multilateral diplomacy on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Joao Manuel Gongalves Lourengo, President...

As high representatives of our world’s nations gather at this seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, our peoples would have been right to expect great...

Many times in history, assassinations have been the prologue to great tragedies. Based on the rejection or hatred of their victims, the perpetrators of such act...

It is an honour to return to the General Assembly, although I wish I were here with a more positive message given all the challenges and tribulations that the w...

It is my honour to speak on behalf of Australia in the venerated General Assembly Hall, which signifies so much to the world’s peoples. It remains the only plac...

When we met in this Hall last year, I was cautiously optimistic that the world would slowly but surely find its footing after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...

First, I would like to extend congratulations to you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy- seventh session and wish you every...

Next year we will mark 50 years since the Bahamas became a fully independent sovereign nation. Our accession to full membership of the United Nations in 1973 wa...

It is with pleasure that I congratulate you, Mr. President, and your friendly country on your election as the President of the General Assembly at its current s...

I heartily congratulate Mr. Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy- seventh session. I assure him of my delegation’s f...

Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate Mr. Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly and to thank Secretary-General Antonio Guterres a...

For more than six months, the world has been living in the shadow of the conflict in Ukraine. It is adversely affecting a great many people on the planet. The c...

I want to begin with the story of Karina, 22-years-old. Eight years ago, Karina — a teenager — was forced to flee Donetsk when Russia invaded eastern Ukraine. I...

I take this rostrum with a heavy heart, more pessimistic than I was last year and more cynical and disappointed. We have come to depend on the multilateral syst...

I have the privilege and signal honour, on behalf of Mr. Patrice Talon, President of the Republic of Benin, who is unable to be here today, to deliver this stat...

I bring the warm greetings of His Majesty the King and from the people of Bhutan. Allow me to convey our congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Csaba Korosi, Pre...

At the outset, allow me to congratulate Mr. Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly and to express to him, on behalf of the Plurinatio...