At the outset, it is my pleasure to congratulate Her Excellency María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on her election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. I wish her every success in her tasks. I also wish to congratulate her predecessor, Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, President du…
I am pleased to stand before the General Assembly today on behalf of the League of Arab States and the country that served as President of the twenty-ninth Arab Summit, namely, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We are here to participate in this Peace Summit, a summit bearing the name of a man who change…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Miroslav Lajčák on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session and to wish him every success. I would also like to thank Mr. Peter Thomson, President of the Assembly at its seventy-first session, for his efforts…
Seventy years have passed since the United Nations was founded, and we are gathered here today to recall together the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. My country was among the founding signatory Members in 1945.
We all realize that the United Nations came into the world…
We meet today after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (resolution 70/1). That post- 2015 development agenda is based on our experience in realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and on a positive coalition among Governments, international organizations and special…
