UN General Assembly
1951

Let me first join with those who have preceded me on this rostrum in expressing my thanks to the French people and Government for the cordial invitation they have extended to us in requesting us to sit in Paris, and for the generous hospitality we have received. Our presence here coincides with the celebration of the bi-millenary of the foundation of Paris. In this coincidence I like to see a happy omen for the success and durability of our Organization. 63. In our times, when peoples enjoy democratic government, it is not only a right but, I should say, almost an obligation for representatives of governments to mount this rostrum and, at the same time, to express their hopes and their anxieties, their views and their ideas regarding the solutions to international problems. 64. Turkey, essentially a peace-loving country, to which expansionist ambitions and aggressive ideas are foreign and whose sole aim is to fulfil its desire to work in order to further the welfare of its population, has a foreign policy which alms only at peace and security.