UN General Assembly
1963

Mr. President, it is my pleasure to associate my delegation with the warm congratulations addressed to you by other representatives upon your election to the Presidency of this eighteenth session of the General Assembly. Your unanimous election is particularly satisfying to us in Jamaica, your friends and neighbours in the Caribbean, because it expresses a universally high regard for your own personal qualities. It is satisfying also because it is in part a special mark of respect for your great country, whose unfaltering determination to protect its restored democracy we admire and applaud.