UN General Assembly
1968

2. Mr. President, this is an opportunity for me to congratulate you most warmly on the confidence placed in you by Member States in electing you to the office of President of the twenty-third session of the General Assembly. 3. I also congratulate the outgoing President, whose competence and great personal qualities enabled him to perform his duties with such zeal during a particularly difficult period, namely the session that has just ended. 4. This is also an opportunity for me to welcome and congratulate the States that have newly entered the great United Nations family — the States of Southern Yemen, Mauritius and Swaziland. 5. My mind brims over with the words and ideas that might faithfully interpret the immense joy which fills me in making the voice of the Republic of Chad heard in the parliament of mankind.