UN General Assembly
1966

52. Mr. President, your election to the high office of President of the General Assembly has taken place at a time when the United Nations, on the threshold of the third decade of its existence, is faced with many problems the solution of which demands great efforts from all States. In adding the warm and sincere congratulations of the Romanian delegation to those already addressed to you — congratulations directed as much to you personally as to your country, for which the Romanian people cherish friendship and esteem — we should like to express the hope that this session will help the United Nations towards the fulfilment of its task as an instrument of international peace and co-operation. 53. The peoples of our time long to live in peace and to take part in fruitful international co-operation, based on mutual respect among the nations. This is a characteristic of the contemporary world, in which the national unity of peoples is being increasingly affirmed at the world level,