Speeches from 1946

I give you the greetings of the Government and people of Liberia. In particular, I give you greetings from William V. S. Tubman, our beloved President, whose pr...

At the point at which we have arrived in our general discussion it befits the representative of little Luxembourg to be very brief. I have listened to the speec...

Our presence in New York affords objective proof of the conviction of our Governments that just as a city cannot develop without the foresight and watchfulness ...

We wish to limit our participation in this general debate to a few remarks of a general nature, with the intention of making known our views on the various ques...

I desire to take advantage of this opportunity in the general debate to express the views of New Zealand on certain aspects of the United Nations in the light o...

We all feel deeply that this session of the General-Assembly faces a responsibility of the gravest and most far-reaching kind. At the same time it faces an oppo...

When I had the honour of addressing the General Assembly at the first part of its first session in London, I had occasion to express certain ideas illustrating ...

Peace is not built with words. Peace must be written in the human heart. We are not here to make the peace, but to build for peace. We are not here to avenge th...

The activities of the United Nations, which are the subject of our debate, have as yet been of too short duration to enable us to draw any essential conclusions...

Saudi Arabia solemnly acclaims this meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations in the New World, and hopes that it will in fact mark the advent of a ...

The meeting of the General Assembly is a good occasion for self-examination. It affords an opportunity for a backward look on the progress achieved and for a fo...

More than a year has elapsed since the United Nations came into being in America. Since its inception, the Organization has become somewhat larger and stronger....

The day before yesterday the head of the delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr. Molotov, made in his speech a masterly analysis of the post-...

The general debate on the report of the Secretary-General offers us an opportunity to state our views both on individual questions of interest to this or that c...

In his great pronouncement here the other day, President Truman used the following words: “The United States will support the United Nations with all the resour...

At the outset of what I have to say to the General Assembly I must refer briefly to the speech made yesterday by the representative of the Union of Soviet Socia...

I should like to congratulate the President on his conduct of this Assembly's debates, and the Secretary-General on his success in setting up the present Organi...

For the second time this year the representatives of the United Nations are meeting in the General Assembly to continue with a firm and determined step along th...

In his report to the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, portrayed for us all the problems confronting the United Nations. I will endeavour...