On behalf of the Indonesian delegation, I am pleased to congratulate you on your election as President of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. We are sure that with your wise and skilful guidance our deliberations will be fruitful.
Let me also take this opportunity to extend Indonesia…
Speaking as a person from Asia, let me say that this meeting reminds me of the Asia-Africa Conference held in Bandung in 1955 — a conference that, almost half a century ago, gave rise to the spirit of Bandung, advocating the principles of solidarity for the promotion of political
freedom and econom…
On behalf of the Indonesian delegation, I am pleased to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at the fifty-sixth session. We are pleased that the stewardship of this session has been entrusted to so capable a diplomat from a fraternal Asian country, with w…