UN General Assembly
1959

89. My opening words are intended for our President, Mr. Belaúnde, and although he is not present, I would ask the Chair for permission to read them. 90. Mr. President, to you has fallen the great and well-deserved honour of presiding over the work and discussions of this General Assembly of the United Nations in circumstances which may well prove decisive for the destiny of mankind- — at a dramatic moment when, thanks to the capacity for hope and faith which fortunately dwells in human hearts, a truce seems to have been called to the anxiety and anguish felt for so many years in the face of the prodigious advance of technology and the unprecedented growth in the power and the resources for destruction held by those States which are more highly developed in the economic, scientific, technological and industrial fields.