UN General Assembly
1958

75. On behalf of my delegation and myself, I extend to you, Mr. President, our cordial congratulations on your election to this high and highly responsible office of President of the General Assembly during its thirteenth regular session. We know that you will discharge the duties of your office with your well-known qualities of competence, efficiency and impartiality. But it is a further source of satisfaction to us to see in you a representative of our Asian culture, who will bring to the accomplishment of his task a spirit of humanity and a sense of spiritual values which are essentially and urgently required for the solution of the grave problems now confronting us. 76. I regret that I could not attend the General Assembly during its third emergency special session personally, but I wish to associate myself with the general gratification expressed at the fact that the Arab States themselves drew up resolution 1237 (ES-III), which was unanimously adopted by the General Assembly.