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1962-09-24

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1962-09-24

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1. “Furthermore, we have greeted with boundless joy the accession to sovereignty of Algeria, after many years of heroic struggle and unprecedented sacrifice, which we have always saluted with deep admiration and total brotherly solidarity. Can there be a more inspiring symbol of what a people under foreign domination can achieve, in the face of overwhelming odds, given singleness of purpose and the determination, to secure its liberation? Ghana, which yesterday co-sponsored Algeria's admission to the United Nations at the Security Council [1020th meeting] looks forward to welcoming the delegation of Algeria, which will take its seat in this Assembly next Monday. 139.”

   1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)

2. “United Nations. My delegation was happy to be associated with their applications for admission to the United Nations. We assure them of our welcome, understanding and support and we express the confidence that they will so conduct their affairs as to consolidate and strengthen their independence, successfully undertake the vast tasks before them of social and economic reconstruction, and make an effective contribution to the work of this Organization. 138. My delegation particularly happy also at the prospect of the admission to the United Nations in the near future of Uganda, whose progress along the road to independence my Government and people have followed with fraternal sympathy and support.”

   1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)

3. “136. Permit me, Mr. President, to offer you the warmest felicitations of the delegation of Ghana on your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly. It is a matter of deep gratification to my delegation that the deliberations of this most important session of the General Assembly are proceeding under the guidance of so distinguished a statesman, jurist and diplomatist as you, renowned as you are for impartiality and a lofty sense of duty, and corning as you do from a country with which my own country is maintaining such close and friendly ties within the framework of the great Asian-African community. 137. It also gives my delegation special pride, and satisfaction that four new States — Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago — have achieved independence and taken their rightful place in the.”

   1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)