Speeches from 1951

In a speech marked by nobility of thought and of feeling, Mr. Anthony Eden has told us of the disappointment he experienced on first coming into contact with th...

It is certainly no accident that the sixth regular session of the General Assembly is being held in Paris. On the contrary, it is significant that, whenever the...

Do not be surprised at the presence on this rostrum of a representative of the Republic of Haiti. I have the honour to represent a small country, small in a geo...

The great enterprise which must be present in the minds of all representatives at the beginning of each session of the General Assembly of the United Nations co...

I should like to begin, as so many others before me have done, by expressing my delegation’s grateful appreciation of the warm welcome extended to us by the Gov...

May I be permitted on behalf of the Indonesian delegation to join the preceding speakers in expressing from this platform our gratitude for the cordial welcome ...

In addressing this august Assembly today, I wish solemnly to reaffirm the unshakeable faith of my country in the United Nations. 86. The geographical position o...

In this critical period of human history, it is a good omen that the sixth session of the General Assembly should meet in the beautiful city of Paris, one of th...

It had not been the intention of my delegation to take up the time of the Assembly during the general debate with any problem of specific concern to Israel, but...

My delegation joins whole-heartedly in the tribute which so many speakers here have paid, and which was repeated but a few moments ago, to the hospitality of Fr...

One might wonder why such a small country as Liberia finds it necessary to take part in this general debate which concerns the destinies of mankind, especially ...

A surprising current tendency is to crystallize the most complex problems in the simplest terms, in slogans. That is practical; it saves time, a commodity of wh...

Let my first words, as the representative of New Zealand, be words of grateful thanks to the French Government for its spirit of welcome, its kind hospitality, ...

At a time when Paris is celebrating the bi-millenary of its foundation, fate has ordained that the United Nations should hold its sixth session in this bright a...

The United Nations is, or at least it could be, a great organization. It was so designed, and it must safeguard itself against a tendency, by now clearly observ...

The Republic of Panama comes to this sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations with the same confidence and the same hope that it has always h...

It was characteristic of the international situation in the year now drawing to a close that technically there has been no break of continuity between the fifth...

This meeting of our Assembly is faced with an inescapable fact: the grave tension and the anxiety bordering on despair which were a feature of the time when we ...

Every session of the General Assembly since 1946 has been described as a crucial one. This perhaps proves nothing except that the United Nations since its birth...

The sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations is meeting in the very heart of France, here in Paris, with its magnificent tradition of fightin...