UN General Assembly
1963

Mr. President, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of the Sudan, it gives me the greatest pleasure to congratulate you on your election to this high office of unique responsibility. Your unanimous election is a reflection of one of the measures of the esteem in which you and your country, Venezuela, are held by the Members of this Organization. A son of the native land of Simon Bolivar, born and brought up in the admirable traditions of Latin American civilization, endowed with the intelligence, competence, integrity and wisdom which we all recognize in you, you possess all the qualities and attributes that promise us a smooth and hopeful sailing on this eighteenth voyage of our ship of the United Nations. The signs on the horizon, as we read them, promise us fair winds.