UN General Assembly
1956

179. This session of the General Assembly is dominated by the grave problems of the Middle East and Hungary, and it is not too much to say that there is a tendency towards much greater aggravation of certain difficulties in areas with reference to which the United Nations has included items on its agenda at the request of some of its Member States. Let us hope that, with a real understanding of the more urgent matters, those genuinely deserving priority, we shall be able to consider them with clarity of judgement, and that those others which tend to arouse or accentuate differences will be dealt with in a truly calm spirit. That, at any rate, is the consideration which will guide the delegation of the Dominican Republic in the consideration of the items on the agenda.