UN General Assembly
1960

32. The Italian Government has been happy to give prompt recognition to all new States emerging from concrete compliance with the principles of equality and liberty. It has likewise been happy to express its ready agreement to the admission of all these countries to our Organization. I wish to express to them at this point and on this occasion, in the name of the Italian Government and people, the warmest felicitations on the attainment of their independence, our most fervent wishes for their future, and a most cordial and friendly welcome to the United Nations. At the same time, let me voice our highest appreciation for the observance of international law shown by them, together with the States with which they freely negotiated their independence. 33. All of us must be deeply grateful for these major felicitous occurrences in the international arena, as they have shown mankind the immense benefits that can be derived from mutual comprehension and from the substitution of the democratic method of respect for the popular will for the method of force or, worse still, violence.