Speeches from 1950

The world is witnessing today a conflict of forces more intense than ever before, the pressure of which has provoked and continues to provoke actions and reacti...

It is inevitable that when representatives of nations come to this rostrum their minds go back to the foundations of the Charter, the beliefs of those who frame...

Never before have men throughout the world more fervently and unanimously wished for peace. Never have they seen more clearly than now the horror and the vanity...

My Government has done me the honour to instruct me to define my country’s position in relation to the grave problems which concern the world and the United Nat...

Because I am the first representative to have the honour to address the fifth session of the General Assembly, I beg to pay tribute to the memory of one of the ...

It is now five years since the United Nations Charter, in which it was laid down that the fundamental purpose of the newly-established international organizatio...

During its brief history, the United Nations has existed under a shadow of fear, the fear that the problems arising out of one great war would resolve themselve...

Before beginning my remarks, I should like to refer briefly to an event which must have given satisfaction to all the representatives here. I am referring to th...

The Secretary-General’s annual report shows us the wide range of activities in which the United Nations has been engaged during the past year. In many fields no...

The practice of beginning sessions of the Assembly with a general debate should be recognized as affording the Governments represented here an opportunity to st...

Since we signed the United Nations Charter at San Francisco, the Assembly has never begun a session in a more difficult atmosphere. We cannot conceal the fact t...

On behalf of the Czechoslovak delegation, I should like to express the hope that the fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations may lay the fou...

Had the United Nations not been faced in its five years of existence with countless obstacles, had it not been called upon to deal with so many alarming symptom...

I wish, first of all, to pay a well-deserved tribute to the men who are fighting in Korea. In particular I wish to pay a tribute to those who not being of Korea...

The General Assembly holds its present meeting in an atmosphere of tense agitation and under gathering clouds of uncertainty and anxiety. People from all parts ...

A year ago, in this same hall, I had the honour, as representative of El Salvador, to congratulate General Carlos Romulo, representative of the Philippine Repub...

A year ago, when the fourth session of the General Assembly met, there was an atmosphere of optimism and determination to accomplish the work before us. The Pre...

At the conclusion of this general discussion, in which so much eloquence has been expended and in which the anxieties and hopes of the five continents have foun...

This year Greece presents itself before the United Nations General Assembly with the feeling that it has decisively fulfilled its duties towards peace. 157. Gre...

The delegation of Guatemala attends the General Assembly once again, inspired by a profound faith in the principles and purposes of the United Nations, and by t...