UN General Assembly
1948

In the splendid city of Paris, in which they all had some share, man’s capacity for harmonious achievements had reached its noblest and most beautiful expression. He hoped it would be for them a source of inspiration as well as an inducement to compromise in order to safeguard the benefits which peace afforded to the peoples. With faith in the supreme human values which elevated and guided the life of communities, they should devote themselves to restoring, on the basis of sincere and effective cooperation, the confidence of world public opinion in the United Nations and the hopes which the world reposed in that meeting.