UN General Assembly
1986

In entrusting to this Organization the realization of our ideas, in choosing it as the best forum for giving effect to them, we are reaffirming our faith in its important task, which as we all know is to reduce antagonism, and to mobilize good will in order to free our world of tension and conflict by the pursuit of the dialog so essential to mutual understanding and to the harmonization of international relations. But if our Organization is to continue this task and bring it to a successful conclusion it must have the means to do so. We are convinced that each one of us will do his best to ensure that means are made available in terms both of material requirements, and of the resolve to reassert the authority of this Organization that has rendered such outstanding service to mankind. As far as Tunisia is concerned, and President Bourguiba, this prestigious Assembly constitutes, as always, the summit of the international legal order. Thus, it has been a pleasure and an honor for me to speak here on behalf of my country, and make the voice of Tunisia heard from this rostrum.