UN General Assembly
1988

It is our primary task to perform pragmatic and efficient day-to-day work. This should not, however, preclude our having a vision of the future. We must combine our forces in order jointly to master the challenges of the future. Therefore I should like to end my statement with some appropriate lines by Alfred Lord Tennyson: "We dip into the future, far as human eyes can see. See the vision of the world and all the wonder that shall be. Hear the war-drum throb no longer, see the battle flags all furled in the parliament of man, the federation of the world."