UN General Assembly
1954

I should like, at the outset of my speech in the general debate at the ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, to greet the delegates to this important international conference and to wish the Assembly every success in its work for the improvement of international relations. The tasks before us are important and we must make a common effort to discharge them equitably. 2. The present session opens at a particularly important stage in international developments. The end of hostilities and the armistice in Korea, the four-Power, Foreign Ministers’ Conference in Berlin, the Conference in Geneva between representatives of the five great Powers and of the other countries concerned, the armistice in Indo-China, and the final settlement of a number of other disputes have done much to improve international relations.