Speeches from 1961

This is the first time since the foundation of the United Nations that Africa's right to share the highest responsibilities within the Organization has been re...

This is the second general debate in which my delegation has participated, and our statement of policy cannot be unrelated to the line which we have followed s...

31. The sixteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly has met at a time when as a result of the policies of the Western Powers, international relati...

I wish to extend to the President my heartfelt congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly. We are very happy indeed to see him as the...

 3. I should like at the very outset to express the feeling of admiration and respect with which my country joins in the tribute paid recently to the Secret...

Mr. President, on behalf of the Ecuadorian delegation, I should like first of all to congratulate you on your appointment. 187. It is a very great privilege fo...

It is with great pleasure that I come to the rostrum today to address the sixteenth session of the General Assembly, and to extend to all delegations the warm ...

Meeting in these troubled and uncertain times of international crisis and tensions, the General Assembly should consider itself highly fortunate and privileged...

I should like to thank the President for his kind words of welcome. His high office, the esteem and admiration we have for his person in Finland, gives special...

114. On behalf of the Republic of Gabon I wish to pay the highest tribute to Mr. Dag Hammarskjold, who died on our African soil so that the independence of an...

We have met at a critical period in world history,, Today, as never before, the nations of the world live under the shadow of war, and mankind is even threaten...

58. The spontaneous unanimity with which you have been elected, Mr; President, and the praise bestowed upon you by those who have spoken before me are evidence...

 Mr. President, on behalf of the people and the Government which I have the honour to represent in this distinguished world-wide assembly, I am pleased to expr...

 2. The sixteenth session, like the three preceding sessions in which the delegation of the Republic of Guinea has taken part, will once again, and to a ver...

There are some repetitions which explain themselves and which we cannot easily avoid when they constitute a well-deserved tribute to fine qualities of heart an...

78. Dag Hammarskjold is still among us and will live eternally in the memory of humanity as long as humanity continues to exist and possess moral sensibility. ...

The problems of present- day international life are so interwoven that, though they are discernible, they certainly are not separate. Consequently, however sma...

Though rather late in the proceedings, my delegation yields to none in the congratulations it would like to offer to Mr. Slim on his election to the presidency ...

1. Each session of the General Assembly is a time when we broaden our perspective and look at the world as a whole. Certainly we cannot escape from our own nat...

It is indeed a pleasure for me to congratulate Mr. Slim on his election as President of the sixteenth session of the General Assembly. I am sure that the Asse...