UN General Assembly
1963

It is because my Government attaches such importance to this achievement, and to encourage those great Powers to do more and have more, faith and confidence in themselves and humanity and save the world from annihilation, that my Prime Minister has commissioned me to visit all the three capitals of Moscow, London and Washington to sign the treaty on behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria. "In signing this treaty today on behalf of my Government, I am constrained to remind the great Powers of what they already know —that is, that we have confidence that, in signing the nuclear test-ban treaty, they remember at all times and have at the back of their minds the sacredness of the pledged word, the sanctity of treaties, and will not give any cause to Nigeria, an independent African State, to regret our signing this treaty."