Session 5 Speeches

It is indeed difficult to find words which do not reflect a false picture of the realities of the international situation at a time when we are faced with such ...

Mr. President, let me begin by congratulating you, as many others have done before me, on your election to the high office of President of the Assembly. This is...

Five years ago, when we met in San Francisco and drafted the United Nations Charter, we thought we were “united” nations. The tragic truth is that we meet here ...

At the beginning of my remarks, I should like to associate my delegation, as indeed the people of Israel, with the tribute paid from this rostrum to that great ...

In the gigantic struggle, which has always divided the great Powers — and which, unfortunately, is still being waged — the forum of this Assembly has proved the...

In view of the very lengthy agenda that has been presented to us, several items of which are undoubtedly of grave and pressing international importance calling ...

Five years ago the Charter of the United Nations was drafted at San Francisco in the firm belief that after two wars the world was ready to embark on better way...

Before I embark on the submissions which I hope to make to the General Assembly, may I ask the President’s indulgence for two very brief preliminary observation...

It may, perhaps, throw some light on the situation in which my own and many other countries find themselves to say that a few days before taking part in this de...

May I be permitted to congratulate the General Assembly on its choice of a President for the fifth session. It is a matter of gratification to my delegation tha...

As head of the delegation of Panama, I have thought it advisable to give a brief account of my country’s attitude towards the international situation which conf...

The General Assembly of the United Nations is assuredly meeting a time of crisis. This crisis was foreseen by the smaller countries, which understood how precar...

I shall take only ten minutes of the Assembly’s precious time. 110. At the beginning of this crucial session, it is essential that we keep certain important fac...

More than five years after its inception, our Organization is presented with a document which can, without exaggeration, be described as disturbing. This docume...

The Korean conflict has, quite properly and naturally, played an important role in this debate. The great majority of the Governments represented here consider ...

The era inaugurated by the creation of the United Nations has been one of critical tension in international relations. The atmosphere of uncertainty and insecur...

For five years the Government of the USSR has made steadfast and consistent attempts to induce the United Nations to fulfil its basic purpose — the maintenance ...

I should like to express from this rostrum the sincere thanks of my delegation and my Government to those previous speakers who paid tribute to the memory of Fi...

The General Assembly has begun its work, as always, by holding a general debate, in which it is customary to draw up the balance of the activities of the United...

I do not intend to delay the proceedings of this Assembly very long, but I want to take this opportunity to try to explain to you the approach of my Government ...