Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India (since 2004).

Please Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the Presidency of the General Assembly. I wish to assure you of India’s full cooperation in the conduct of the sixty-sixth session of the Assembly.
It is also my great pleasure to welcome in our midst the new State of South Sudan.
We meet at this session of the United Nations General Assembly at a time of great uncertainty and profound change.
Till a few years ago the world had taken for granted the benefits of (...)

President Barack Obama,
Excellencies,
Distinguished Heads of Delegations,
Nuclear security is one of the foremost challenges we face today. I therefore wish to commend President Barack Obama for his initiative in convening this Summit on Nuclear Security. We would like the Summit to lead to concrete outcomes which help make our world a safer place.
The developmental applications of nuclear science in areas such as medicine, agriculture, food preservation and availability of fresh (...)