UN General Assembly
1960

I deem it a signal honour to represent my country and my king here in the United Nations as the Chairman of the Moroccan delegation and to take part in that capacity in the valuable work of this Assembly. This honour in fact entails a very heavy responsibility because no previous session of the United Nations General Assembly has had such distinguished participants or has been so important and so decisive for international relations and for the fixture of the world. My country will therefore do its utmost to adopt a mature, conscientious, sympathetic and understanding approach to the problems before us, problems which are crucial to world peace and to the lives of future generations.