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I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express once again the gratification of my delegation at Mr. Boland's assumption of the high office of President o...

Mr. President, you represent a country whose cultural traditions, desire for peace and political maturity we all admire. The task of conducting the debates of t...

From this rostrum the most authoritative voices in world politics have taken up, with a greater or lesser degree of passion, the question of the emancipation of...

Although Mr. Boland is not present, my delegation would like to address the following greeting to him. 136. We are far from your country, Mr. President; few of ...

Although we have been given the reputation of speaking at great length, the Assembly need not worry. We shall do our best to be brief, saying only what we regar...

Cyprus, as one of the recently admitted countries to the United Nations, comes into this general debate with all the diffidence of a newcomer. We have no experi...

Undoubtedly all of us who are meeting in this hall realize the importance of this session of the General Assembly. On the initiative of the Soviet Union, many c...

Disarmament is today the question that stands out as the all-important problem in international politics. While fears of new weapons and new methods of warfare ...

I should first like to extend my congratulations to the President of the United Nations General Assembly at its fifteenth session. Destiny and his own outstandi...

The fifteenth session of the General Assembly has had as special features the presence and active participation in this general debate of Heads of State and Hea...

"When during the course of this year the big Powers were to meet in Paris last May to discuss major issues that affect world peace, the small Powers, though not...

It is my great pleasure and privilege to extend to Mr. Boland, on behalf of my delegation, our most sincere congratulations on his election as President of the ...

The great tide of history flows, and as it flows it carries to the shores of reality the stubborn facts of life and men's relations one with another. One cardin...

The atmosphere in which the fifteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly opened and, still more, the atmosphere in which our work has at times taken...

Mr. President, it is a great honour for me to convey to you the congratulations of my Government on your well deserved election to the presidency of the General...

Rarely in the history of the United Nations has a General Assembly session been followed with more intense or hopeful interest than was the fourteenth session. ...

The many speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum have expressed their satisfaction at the election of so able a chairman as yourself, Mr. President, to pr...

First of all, may I congratulate you, Mr. President, on the General Assembly's felicitous choice in electing you to preside over our deliberations at the presen...

It is beyond doubt that the present fifteenth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations is one of the greatest importance since its inception and ma...

I am a newcomer to this Assembly and not accustomed to its ways and conventions. I seek, therefore, the indulgence of the President, and the indulgence of the m...