Sentence examples for general assembly speech from inspiring English sources

In his UN general assembly speech last week, Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the official version of the 2001 attacks.

The new foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is due to meet the British foreign secretary, William Hague, and the EU foreign policy chief, Lady Ashton, on Monday, to lay the groundwork for Rouhani's general assembly speech the next day.

There was no official reaction from Jersualem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was flying home from New York, where he highlighted the Iranian government's "extreme fundamentalism" and "fanaticism" in his UN general assembly speech.

The anti-American violence in the Muslim world demanded a firm push back from President Obama, who finally delivered it on Tuesday in the last U.N. General Assembly speech of his term.

Like all general assembly speeches it was substantially or wholly aimed at a domestic audience, but he moved as far as he could on the substantive issues.

From the impassioned to the provocative to the truly bizarre, here are the 10 most unforgettable remarks to come out of the United Nations general assembly speeches in the last sixty years.

And Obama has said this repeatedly in his his Cairo speech, in his speech to the U.N. general assembly, in his speech, I believe, in Oslo, but almost any major speech where he's talked about democracy, and talked about his approach, and implicitly how it is different from the previous President's approach it is to point out that it has to be indigenous.

And Obama has said this repeatedly — in his his Cairo speech, in his speech to the U.N. general assembly, in his speech, I believe, in Oslo, but almost any major speech where he's talked about democracy, and talked about his approach, and implicitly how it is different from the previous President's approach — it is to point out that it has to be indigenous.

After a weeks-long love-bombing campaign conducted by the new Iranian leadership in the run-up to the UN general assembly, President Hassan Rouhani's speech on Tuesday afternoon seemed strikingly old-school.

Netanyahu, who is to address the UN general assembly next week, said Rouhani's speech "lacked both any practical proposal to stop Iran's military nuclear programme and any commitment to fulfil UN security council decisions".

On a discussion show after the speech, pro-Putin theatre director Sergei Kurginyan praised Putin's "Shakespearian" speech, comparing the UN general assembly to the plot of Henry IV: "Putin's speech was a call to a duel," he said, to thunderous applause.