UN General Assembly
1949

78. Thus, on one point at least, the hope expressed in resolution 190 (III), which the General Assembly had adopted on 3 November 1948 on the initiative of the delegation of Mexico, and to which the President had appropriately referred in his opening speech (220th meeting), would be fulfilled. Austria would then be able to take its place in the United Nations together with other nations, which had not betrayed either the cause of international morality or that of democracy and freedom. The French delegation sincerely rejoiced in the moral support and spontaneous cooperation of so many nations, whose influence within the Organization was not to be measured by the size of their populations or by the extent of their material resources. France respected human dignity in every individual, and recognized the right of every State to develop freely and to accomplish its mission. That mission was enlarged by the possibility of each State to contribute to the common welfare of all. The egotism of States was not only an offence condemned by morality; it was an error repudiated by the solidarity which bound the destiny of all peoples more and more every day.