UN General Assembly
1977

186. And so I shall conclude with a modest but none the less sincere and earnest proposal to invite the General Assembly through you. Mr. President, to hold its thirty- third session in Manila, of which I am privileged to be the humble Governor. You shall be most welcome—and more than welcome — I assure you. 187. For us it will be a matter of national pride. But it will be more than that. It will be, I trust, an opportunity for the General Assembly to move, for once, and perhaps many times again, from the towers and palaces of the great Powers to the frontiers of that other world, the third world, which, after all, most of us represent and with whose problems we are most exercised. 188. For, ultimately, we are concerned with knowing one another, understanding one mother's problems and becoming involved in their solution. We can do so most successfully in one another's homes.