UN General Assembly
1956

38. When on 14 December 1955 the General Assembly of the United Nations voted to admit the Kingdom of Laos to this Organization, the entire Laotian people experienced a feeling of pride such as it had rarely known in the entire course of its history. The people of Laos, a notoriously peace-loving people, had just emerged from ten years of war. Laos was still nursing its wounds, making good its war damage and making a count of its widows and orphans. In these circumstances, its admission to the United Nations seemed like the dawn of a new era and took on the importance of a real peace treaty.