UN General Assembly
1961

﻿As I take my turn to intervene in this particularly important debate, I would like to offer the President my sincere and fraternal congratulations and to express the satisfaction of the Moroccan delegation at seeing a son of the Arab Maghreb, a man who is loyal to the African cause and devoted to the principles of the United Nations Charter, elected to the highest office of our Organization. At the personal level, too, how could I not be proud and touched to see one who was formerly a fellow-student, and a comrade-in-arms in the struggle for out peoples' liberation, become President of this Assembly? 203. I am happy to see him in the Chair, and I am confident that his intellectual qualities and his experience will enable him to deal successfully with the problems confronting this sixteenth session, which has been referred to in this hall as the "session of the brink". 204. I have listened carefully and given thought to the words of the distinguished speakers who have preceded me on this rostrum.