Speeches from 1953

1. First, let me congratulate Mrs. Pandit most cordially on her election to the high office which, to the honour of India, she is holding at this Assembly. To ...

18. May I start by offering the President of the General Assembly the sincere congratulations of the Australian Government on her election. I think she knows of...

80. It is, of corpse, not easy at this stage of the general debate to offer any ideas which are both original and constructive. The general situation in which w...

81. Before making my statement, I wish to say how much my Government, my delegation and I myself have been gratified at the election of Mrs. Pandit as President...

113. I take this opportunity to extend to the President the sincere felicitations of the Burmese people and of the Burmese delegation on the occasion of her ele...

1. The delegation of the Byelorussian SSR, like other delegations, attaches great significance to the eighth session of the General Assembly, which has met at a...

1. May I, in the first place, offer you, Madam President, my sincere congratulations and those of my delegation on your election as President of the Assembly, a...

1. Since the beginning of the last session, the international situation has substantially changed. We have seen the end of the war in Korea — the end, that is...

108. Mr. TSIANG (China): In ordinary housekeeping, good housewives of all lands agree that they should not be penny-wise and pound-foolish. In the kind o...

98. The United Nations Charter establishes the general debate in the Assembly as a means whereby governments can keep in touch with world opinion. Like all the ...

137. The Costa Rican delegation has pleasure in associating itself with the congratulations which have been addressed to Mrs. Pandit on her election to the pres...

75. This general debate in the Assembly has been accepted as the appropriate occasion for the various delegations to state their views on the great problems fac...

29. The prolonged period of increasing tension in international relations, deliberately brought about over the last few years by aggressive forces in the world,...

1. At the close of the seventh session of the General Assembly, all the peoples devoted to international order, freedom and prosperity felt a deep satisfaction ...

52. Last year the delegation of Ecuador pointed out the importance of the general debate at the beginning of General Assembly sessions; that debate serves to gu...

44. Whereas recent sessions of the United Nations General Assembly have been held in an atmosphere of agitation, division and dispute, this eighth session start...

130. It is a true pleasure for the delegation of El Salvador to pay a tribute to the great Asian nation so worthily represented here by Mrs. Pandit, and to her ...

94. My Government believes that since the last session of the General Assembly much progress has been made towards improving the world situation. At this eighth...

48. Just a few months ago, when some signs appeared of a lessening of the tension in Europe and therefore in the world, two voices were raised, on either side o...

1. We all remember the inauspicious omens which attended the opening of the seventh session of the General Assembly on 14 October 1952. Few, if any, among us ca...