Speeches from 1961

100. The Government of the People's Republic of Romania attaches particular importance to the sixteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly, for thi...

Permit me to begin with the non-controversial, and I would say outright, the topic of the election of the President. As he pointed out in his statement, his el...

 1. I need scarcely say what particular joy we Senegalese feel on the occasion of Mr. Slim's illustrious election, as President of the General Assembly. The fr...

On this, the first occasion of the participation of my country in the general debate of the Assembly, I hope the President will permit me to express the sincer...

I would like to join the distinguished speakers who preceded me on this rostrum in paying solemn tribute to the memory of the late Secretary-General and to the ...

Before addressing the Assembly and in exercising my right of reply, I wish to refer to a statement made by the Foreign Minister of Ghana when he participated i...

In addressing the General Assembly at this sixteenth regular session, we can allow ourselves only one brief satisfaction—that of congratulating the President o...

 May I, at the outset, pay my country's respectful homage to the memory of our late Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr Dag Hammarskjold, and the devoted offi...

I should like, in the first place, to take this opportunity to offer Mr. Slim my very warm congratulations upon his election to the high office of the Presiden...

 1. Mr. President, I am particularly pleased to find myself at the head of my delegation on this occasion and to have the privilege of conveying to you persona...

134. My delegation welcomes your election to the presidency as a great honour which is not only a recognition of your five years of work in and for the United ...

): Today it is with a heavy heart that.. I come to address the General Assembly in which I have had the honour and the privilege to represent my country for ov...

221. May I, Mr. President, on behalf of the Ukrainian delegation, congratulate you on your election to the high post of President of the sixteenth session of ...

I take this opportunity, Mr. President, to congratulate you, on behalf of the Soviet delegation, on your election to this high office. 30. Sixteen years have pa...

Mr. President, please allow me to congratulate you upon the well-earned and well-deserved unanimity with which you have been elected to preside over our delibe...

): I should like to say at the outset what a pleasure it is for me and my delegation to sit here under the Presidency of Mr. Mongi Slim. He and his country hav...

We meet in an hour of grief and challenge: Dag Hammarskjold is dead. But the United Nation^ lives. His tragedy is deep in our hearts, but the tasks for which h...

The delegation of Uruguay shares the feeling of satisfaction with which the unanimous election of the President of this Assembly was received. His many persona...

In unanimously electing Mr. Slim to preside over its sixteenth session the General Assembly has made an excellent choice, for in him are united all the qualiti...

The peoples of the world are grieved by the untimely death of the late Dag Hammarskjold, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. We cherish remembrance of...