UN General Assembly
1963

101. It is paradoxical, moreover, that at a time when the merits and benefits of co-operation for reducing international tension or ensuring the development of less favoured countries are hailed on all sides, cases are to be found almost everywhere in the world, where understanding between peoples and races is far from assured. Here I am thinking of racial or religious intolerance, racial discrimination in all its forms, and the denial of civil and political rights to certain peoples and certain races. 102. As in the past, my delegation will support any action taken within the framework of the United Nations, which will help to remove obstacles to the establishment of real understanding founded on tolerance, equality and respect for the rights of man and peoples,