UN General Assembly
1961

﻿221. May I, Mr. President, on behalf of the Ukrainian delegation, congratulate you on your election to the high post of President of the sixteenth session of the General Assembly and wish you success in the discharge of your duties in guiding the work of this important Assembly. 222. The United Nations has never before seemed so unanimous in recognizing the extreme gravity of the present international situation. Differ though they may in their views and evaluation of the causes of the prevailing tension, all agree on one point: unless the development of events in Central Europe is arrested, it may approach a very dangerous brink.