Speeches from 1951

It is rather a hard task, coming to this rostrum after so many illustrious speakers, to discover new, up-to-date ideas worthy of being addressed from this platf...

Let me first join with those who have preceded me on this rostrum in expressing my thanks to the French people and Government for the cordial invitation they ha...

The delegation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic has come here, as it came to the previous session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, anxio...

May I at the outset add the thanks of the South African delegation to those already expressed by previous speakers to the Government of France for the kind and ...

I shall take this opportunity to fulfil from this rostrum on behalf of the USSR delegation the pleasant task of greeting the freedom-loving people of France, wh...

All civilization is under a debt to France. For centuries those who have visited this brave nation and its capital city have been inspired by its graceful cultu...

All of us are indebted to the people and the Government of France for the excellence of the arrangements of this meeting. We meet here in Paris on her two-thous...

Among the items to be considered by the General Assembly at this session there are some which vitally affect the way of life in certain countries, and it might ...

Venezuela is attending this Assembly in the spirit in which it always attends international conferences; it has come here to offer in all sincerity its co-opera...

I wish to associate myself with my colleagues in saluting this generous city which has welcomed us to work in the very field which it has chosen itself, the fie...

Never before in history has mankind longed so fervently as now for genuine international security and real peace; and never, in all probability, have men partic...