UN General Assembly
1953

22. With liberation in Syria, and in other Arab countries, there arrived national construction and development, particularly in the last three years. That development is today gaining strength and momentum, forging its way ahead amidst internal and external difficulties. The difficulties are immense but they are difficulties of growth. With liberation came, too, international cooperation. In Syria we have always had an admiration for the great French people, but Syrian-French relations were never more friendly than they are now. Never before was co-operation between us and other countries more real and healthful than that which now stems from liberty and from the Charter.