UN General Assembly
1969

3. Madam President, your election as President of the twenty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly is an event which invites one to reflect on the history of your country and the relationship down the centuries between the races labelled as black and those labelled as white. Two things stand out after reflection. The first is that race relations are a sphere in which the achievements of man fill us all with shame, and the second is that in your election we may take comfort and hope that mankind is making progress, even in this sphere so full of the sad records of man’s inhumanity to man, too shameful to recall on an occasion such as this. 4. It is in the light of this sober reflection of history, Madam President, that I wish you toe accept the warmest greetings, good wishes and felicitations from the Government and people of Ghana: first, because your election gives happy evidence of the notable advance that mankind has made in the twentieth century in the important task of