UN General Assembly
1983

﻿26. Let me first offer you, Sir, a warm welcome and hearty congratulations on your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. In you I greet a prominent personality of the Latin American continent, whose peoples, culture and achievements are highly respected and appreciated in the Hungarian People's Republic. I assure you of my delegation's full support in your carrying out of your important duties. 27. It was the horrible experience of two world conflagrations that led to the great determination of nations to establish the Organization, which is destined, in the words of its Charter, "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". Man's centuries-old desire that nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" was also engraved on the wall of this palace of deliberations. But I wonder if we can claim to have come any closer to this lofty goal.