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1. “The Organization has been erected and maintained on the basis of the fundamental principle of equality among nations, whether great or small, strong or weak. 40. At the national level, problems are viewed from the standpoint of the immediate interests of each State and in the light of its main concern to safeguard its national sovereignty. At the international level, the search for solutions to the problems and conflicts under consideration proceeds from a broader interpretation of our responsibilities; it is directed towards a less selfish goal. Here, we act, and are in the habit of acting, as representatives of the different members of the community of mankind, and our first concern should be to safeguard peace and to ensure that individual interests are adjusted to each other without the use of force. 41.”

   1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)

2. “Today the Organization itself is being reappraised, not merely in regard to its geographical location, its administrative structure and its methods, but also, and primarily, in regard to the fundamental meaning of its existence and of the permanent principles by which it is guided, as they derive from the Charter. Such a reappraisal has never before been made so insistently, so seriously or so disquietingly. Until now, the United Nations has constituted the supranational framework within which conflicts of interest between nations could be at least attenuated, if not solved. Negotiations undertaken to that end have been based on the twin principles of tolerance and co-operation, which of necessity imply mutual understanding and reciprocal concessions in conformity, of course, with the requirements of law and justice.”

   1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)

3. “To make devotion to freedom more active, and to present a more complete picture of the exigencies of decolonization — that, we feel, is the most valuable contribution which the new Mediterranean and African States can make to the United Nations, and constitutes a further reason for the considerable importance of the fifteenth session. 39. But apart from the calibre and composition of several of our delegations, and from the sharp outline of the problems before us, the significance of our debates is, we feel, emphasized still further by the special atmosphere which has prevailed in this hall since this session began. Serious problems have quite suddenly, and almost unexpectedly, arisen.”

   1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)

4. “The nations which have just acceded to independence, and which my country welcomed here only a few days ago, are all numbered among the under-developed countries of the world. We are sure that their profound attachment to both individual and collective freedom, for which they have fought so resolutely, will be the most valuable contribution they can make to the debates in the Assembly. Their determination to secure genuine emancipation and economic and social liberation will unquestionably help to lay greater stress on this prime aspect of the problem of decolonization.”

   1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)

5. “The presence of so many responsible leaders of Member States brings into unusually full relief the questions which they and we have to consider. We believe — and hope — that, despite the occasionally dramatic fever of the first few days, sound and suitable decisions may finally be reached and that the process of finding solutions for the fundamental problems before us can be accelerated. 38. The current session has opened under the happy augury of the admission of sixteen new Member States from the Mediterranean region and Africa. This should, in my view, benefit the United Nations in two ways. First, it makes the Organization more representative, especially as far as Africa is concerned, and thus brings it closer to its goal of universality.”

   1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)

6. “I should like first of all to express once again, on my own behalf and on that of my delegation, our sincere congratulations to Mr. Boland on his election as President of so important a session of the General Assembly. The confidence which the Assembly has thus shown in him is a just tribute to his personal qualities, to his country and to its brave people, whose valiant struggle has so often been an example and a symbol to us. 37. The special importance of this session of the United Nations General Assembly is underlined in the first place, by the presence of Heads of States or of Governments, to whom I should like to convey an expression of esteem. Their participation in our work invests the General Assembly's debates with particular weight and seriousness.”

   1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)