Speeches by Mr. Luns

1. Each session of the General Assembly is a time when we broaden our perspective and look at the world as a whole. Certainly we cannot escape from our own nat...

80. Mr. President, when I visited Romania early this year I not only was charmed by your country but I was also impressed with the political views expressed by ...

Mr. President, this eighteenth session of the General Assembly being under your distinguished presidency, I feel particularly privileged and happy to extend to ...

33. Mr. President, allow me to preface my observations on the world situation by saying that my delegation rejoices in the circumstance that the generous gestur...

 Never during the many-years that I have been attending sessions of the General Assembly have I done so with such a heavy heart. Not only are the threats to pe...

I propose to take into account the fact that a great number of Members are taking part in this general debate and to limit myself, therefore, to a brief stateme...

50. Sometimes it happens that we reach a turning point in international relations, when the course of our actions is narrowly circumscribed and we are made acut...

155. Many representatives have already addressed this Assembly in the course of the general debate. This simplifies my task here, because in respect of a number...

On behalf of the Netherlands delegation, I should like first of all to offer the President our sincere congratulations upon his election to his high office. It ...

201. The first advantage that accrues to me from this opportunity of addressing the Assembly is that I have the pleasure of congratulating Mr. Belaúnde upon his...

90. As I have the honour to mount this rostrum today for the fifteenth year in succession in order to address this, the world's most representative gatheri...

101. On behalf of the Indonesian delegation, may I be permitted first of all to extend our most sincere congratulations to Ambassador Hambro on his election as ...

79. Mr. President, my delegation has already had an opportunity to offer you its congratulations upon your election to your high office. I therefore wish to lim...

The Charter has wisely recognized the interdependence of the conditions for peace and security. It has proclaimed the interrelationship between political, econo...

30. May I be permitted, first of all, to offer Mrs. Pandit the most sincere congratulations on the part of the Netherlands delegation upon her election to the h...

59. Mr. President, allow me first of all to take this opportunity, which did not present itself earlier, to express to you the congratulations of the Netherland...

30. Mr. President, to pay respects once again to a distinguished statesman from Latin America, after his election to the Presidency of the General Assembly, is ...

Seven years have passed since the establishment of the United Nations, and we are now foregathered in our new magnificent home. Does the fact that we possess a ...

141. As my opening remark I should like as many speakers have done before me to pay a tribute to your predecessor, Mrs. Angie Brooks-Randolph, for the able, di...

I hope the President will allow me to begin by saying that the Netherlands delegation is particularly happy to have him preside over this session of the General...