UN General Assembly
1961

I should like to conclude this statement, which has already taken up too much of the Assembly's time, on a note of hope: the hope that friendship and co-operation between all peoples will in the end triumph over mistrust and hatred. Adaptability, respect for the sovereignty of every country, sincere co-operation, friendship towards all the world—these, as Mr. Hamani Diori, President of the Republic of Niger, said recently, are the essential conditions for Africa's development. We have tried and we are trying with all our strength, among the States of the African and Malagasy Union, to translate into facts an international policy which, according to our joint declaration of 12 September 1961, is directed towards the service of truth through peaceful debate in order to build a more humane world.