UN General Assembly
1976

It is a special pleasure for me to extend to you, Sir, my warm congratulations on your election to the presidency of the thirty-first session of the General Assembly. The delegation of the Kingdom of Morocco is convinced that the unanimity with which you were elected is but the expression of the esteem of the international community for your outstanding qualities. That unanimity is a credit to your country and its leaders and is a manifestation of the consideration which the active policy of Sri Lanka has earned in the international arena as that of a country in the vanguard of those defending the principles of the liberation of peoples and of peace in the world, a country which was recently host to the Fifth Conference of Heads of State or government of Non-aligned Countries.