Speeches from 1949

Mr. ARCE said that the difficulties which clouded the international horizon could be traced to causes both within and without the United Nations but that some, ...

Mr. van ZEELAND said that, in commenting on the opening meetings of the General Assembly, an American newspaper had recently expressed the belief that the Unite...

Mr. DE FREITAS VALLE stated that his country’s participation in the San Francisco Conference had been marked by a spirit of confident hope, so much so that, des...

Mr. KISELEV said that the time had come to draw up the balance sheet of the activity of the United Nations during its first four years. 142. He had carefully st...

Mr. PEARSON remarked that all speakers in the opening general debate were emphasizing — and rightly so — the vital role of the United Nations in upholding and e...

Mr. SANTA CRUZ began by saying that the greatest concern of the General Assembly was to see whether the United Nations still enjoyed the faith and confidence of...

Mr. Tsiang observed that the general debate at the beginning of an Assembly’s session was the proper occasion for surveying the work of the Organization, partic...

Mr. HEVIA, after conveying the greetings of Dr. Carlos Prio, President of the Republic of Cuba, and the good wishes of the Cuban Government and people for the s...

Mr. CLEMENTIS said that, in surveying the achievements, and failures and in analysing the problems which had concerned the United Nations during the past year, ...

Mr. HENRIQUEZ UREÑA said that if ever the United Nations General Assembly had commenced its work in an atmosphere propitious to fruitful mutual collaboration it...

Mr. Viteri Lafronte pointed out that the General Assembly’s fourth session was meeting ten years after the beginning of the Second World War, which had taken pl...

RAHIM Bey said that the political atmosphere in which the General Assembly was meeting for its fourth session was not what had been hoped for. Tension and anxie...

Mr. Castro stated that the election of General Romulo, head of the Philippine delegation, as President of the General Assembly pointed to an advance of that dem...

Mr. AKLILOU wished to comment briefly on the agenda of the fourth session of the General Assembly. 128. General Romulo, President of the General Assembly, had e...

Mr. Schuman said that general discussion was a form of self-examination in the course of which members of the Assembly reviewed the shortcomings and failures of...

Mr. TSALDARIS stated that Greece had come to the fourth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations with the confidence which it had always placed in ...

Sir Benegal RAU congratulated the President on his election and pointed out that it was a matter of special gratification to all Asian delegations, since it was...

Mr. al-Jamali observed that in one generation the world had suffered the painful consequences of two world wars. The state of mind of the majority of mankind wa...

Mr. EBAN observed that the General Assembly was approaching its labours in the fourth session under the critical and expectant gaze of the world. The instinct a...

Mr. C. MALIK congratulated the President on his election. There was a general hope among the President’s many friends that the United Nations might, under his l...