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Statements by the President

Speeches by HE Judge Iwasawa Yuji and his predecessors, dated, with the languages each is available in.

President Iwasawa

2025–2026

President Salam

2024

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Earlier statements

President Donoghue, 2021–2023

Speeches to the Sixth Committee and the General Assembly each October from 2021 to 2023, to the International Law Commission each summer, at the Security Council’s signature event on the rule of law among nations (12 January 2023), to mark the fortieth anniversary of UNCLOS (29 April 2022) and at a dinner for the Heads of international organizations in the Netherlands (6 December 2023). Open the archive.

Earlier Presidents

The full archive of statements, by President and by date, in the languages each was delivered in. Statements by the President.

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One record, two languages

Each statement is a dated document record with its speaker, occasion and language versions. The list filters itself by President and by year, and the French edition of the site shows the same record with the French file first.

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