With the unanimous agreement today, under the leadership of President Obama, and with the great speeches that have been made around this table, we are sending a united, unequivocal and undivided message across the world today that we, as leaders of nuclear-weapon States and non-nuclear-weapon States…
I stand here to reaffirm the Charter of the United Nations, not to tear
it up. I call on every nation to support its universal principles.
A year ago, we met on the brink of a global crisis and, as national leaders spoke in turn at this rostrum, the full scale of the danger was becoming clear — a …
I am delighted that so many leaders who have served the world with such distinction and whom I admire for their statesmanship have assembled from every faith and every continent for this very special conference on the culture of peace and the power of dialogue. And I am grateful that this conference…
It is humbling to stand before this great Assembly today. Events of recent weeks have proved beyond doubt that we are now in a new global age. Living through the first financial crisis and the first resources crisis of globalization, we are a world not simply in transition, but facing transformation…
I want to start by thanking President Mbeki for convening this event and for his important and pivotal role in the creation of the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, both of which are essential to ensuring African solutions to the challenges that Africa faces.
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Sir, my delegation is very happy to join in the expressions of pleasure and congratulation on your assumption of the presidency of this Assembly. It is a source of satisfaction to all of us to see as our President someone of such wide experience who has given proof of great diplomatic skiIls in the …
