I would first like to thank the French delegation for the leadership and openness that it showed in facilitating deliberations on this important draft resolution (A/78/L.9).
Senegal would especially like to commend the United Nations on its initiatives to promote sport as a tool for peace, friendsh…
The General Assembly has unanimously chosen you, Mr. President, to guide the work of the fifty-second session. This decision is a tribute to your outstanding personal qualities as a diplomat and a statesman, and at the same time a tribute to your vast experience in international relations. It also s…
Your noteworthy election, Sir, to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session is an eloquent and solemn tribute from the Members of our Organization to your great country, Malaysia. Your intellectual and moral qualities, your faith in the United Nations and your vast experience…
My country, Senegal, is very pleased to express to Mr. Diogo Freitas do Amaral its warm congratulations on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fiftieth session. His election reflects how much the international community values the role his country — Portugal — has played in…
The international community is meeting once again, assembling the great diversity of the nations which are its members, to consider the state of the world and to chart the paths of progress for the 12 months that lie ahead.
We give thanks to God for having inspired the delegations here present in t…
On behalf of the Senegalese delegation, I wish to say how pleased we are to see you presiding over the Security Council for the month of April and discharging your responsibilities, to our great satisfaction, with skill and devotion.
I therefore wish to congratulate you most sincerely, while reaffi…
The General Assembly’s annual convening in New York is a world event which, each year, expresses the hope of nations and peoples to find common ground, through dialogue and joint effort, in order to live together their shared destiny. In a world that is becoming daily more diverse and in which peopl…
The thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly has opened in an atmosphere of expectation and hope. We are remin<led that at the thirty-fifth session the study of certain important questions, whose satisfactory solution could have beneficial effects on international peace and security, yielded blu…
Mr. President, the excellent relations which unite our two countries, the Federal Republic ofGermany and the Repub- licof Senegal, are the reason for our pleasure in seeingyou assume the lofty post of President of the thirty-fifth session of the General Assembly. I should like to congratulate you on…
Mr. President, I should like first of all, on behalfofmy Government, the people ofthe Republic of Senegal and His Excellency Mr. Leopold Sedar Senghor, to express to you our most heartfelt congratu- lations on the occasion of your brilliant election to the presidency of this thirty-fourth session of…
