General debate of the sixty-eigth session of the General Assembly

General Debate Resource Centre

Your window on the general debate of the 68th session of the General Assembly!

The Live debate is available on the UN Webcast. (webtv.un.org)

From 26 September onwards the live streaming will also be available from this site.

This portal offers access to the speeches of the Member States delivered from the UN Headquarters in New York. Each speaker will have a dedicated page featuring the statement, a video and downloadable sound files (.mp3) in six languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

The site will be continuously updated and content will be searchable by date or country/entity.

High-level Meetings of the 68th Session (2013)

24 September to Friday,
27 September; and Monday,
30 September up to Friday,
4 October

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Morning Session

• 1.

  Secretary-General of the United Nations

  Ban Ki-moon
• 2.

  President of the 68th Session of the UNGA (opening)

  H.E. Mr. John W. Ashe
• 3.

  Brazil

  H.E. Mrs. Dilma Rousseff

  President
• 4.

  United States of America (The)

  H.E. Mr. Barack Obama

  President
• 5.

  Turkey

  H.E. Mr. Abdullah Gül

  President
• 6.

  Nigeria

  H.E. Mr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

  President
• 7.

  Chile

  H.E. Mr. Sebastián Piñera Echeñique

  President
• 8.

  Bulgaria

  H.E. Mr. Rossen Plevneliev

  President
• 9.

  Mozambique

  H.E. Mr. Armando Emílio Guebuza

  President
• 10.

  France

  H.E. Mr. François Hollande
• 11.

  Jordan

  His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein

  King
• 12.

  Slovakia

  H.E. Mr. Ivan Gašparovič

  President
• 13.

  Colombia

  H.E. Mr. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón

  President
• 14.

  Qatar

  His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani

  Amir
• 15.

  Monaco

  His Serene Highness Prince Albert II
• 16.

  South Africa

  H.E. Mr. Jacob Zuma

  President
• 17.

  Ukraine

  H.E. Mr. Viktor Yanukovych

  President
• 18.

  Sri Lanka

  H.E. Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa

  President

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  Afternoon Session

  • 19.

    Costa Rica

    H.E. Mrs. Laura Chinchilla Miranda

    President
  • 20.

    Austria

    H.E. Mr. Heinz Fischer

    President
  • 21.

    Paraguay

    H.E. Mr. Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara

    President
  • 22.

    Latvia

    H.E. Mr. Andris Bērziņš

    President
  • 23.

    Liberia

    H.E. Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

    President
  • 24.

    Iran (Islamic Republic of)

    H.E. Mr. Hassan Rouhani

    President
  • 25.

    Gabon

    H.E. Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba

    President
  • 26.

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    H.E. Mr. Zeljko Komšić

    President
  • 27.

    Lebanon

    H.E. Mr. Michel Sleiman

    President
  • 28.

    Switzerland

    H.E. Mr. Ueli Maurer

    President
  • 29.

    Uruguay

    H.E. Mr. José Mujica

    President
  • 30.

    Uganda

    H.E. Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

    President
  • 31.

    Argentina

    H.E. Mrs. Cristina Fernández

    President
  • 32.

    Malawi

    H.E. Mrs. Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda

    President
  • 33.

    Zambia

    H.E. Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata

    President
  • 34.

    Sweden

    H.E. Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt

    Prime Minister

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