UN General Assembly
1968

76. I want first to congratulate our President on his election, to wish him success and to express our goodwill and our support. I would want also to express our gratitude. to the retiring President, Mr. Manescu, the Foreign Minister of Romania, whose country I had the honour to visit recently. I believe that the way he handled our affairs earned the admiration of us all. 77. The President in his opening address to this Assembly reminded us that the United Nations is not a separate body with an existence of its own from its Members. If in what I have to say I use the words “United Nations", I shall try to keep in mind, as I think we ought all to do, that that is simply a way of saying “we ourselves acting in and through the United Nations". Its successes are our successes, and its failures are our failures. It is ourselves.