UN General Assembly
1961

﻿I should like to begin by congratulating Mr. Mongi Slim and Tunisia on his election as President of the General Assembly. Mr. Slim has had a distinguished record in the Organization. He has served on many committees and bodies of the Organization and I remember, in particular, the distinguished part he played when Tunisia was a member of the Security Council. He carried out a constructive and conciliatory role in connexion with a number of very difficult items of the agenda in periods of some tenseness. His election at this session Is a recognition of his own personal contribution to the United Nations, to his standing and that of his country, in the Organization.