It is my duty to inform the Governments assembled in Geneva, responsible as they are for the lives of millions of men, women and children, of the dea… - Haile Selassie I

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion. It still provides the essential escape valve without which the slow build-up of pressures would have long since resulted in catastrophic explosion.

I assert that the problem submitted to the Assembly today is a much wider one. It is not merely a question of the settlement of Italian aggression. It is collective security: it is the very existence of the League of Nations. It is the confidence that each State is to place in international treaties. It is the value of promises made to small States that their integrity and their independence shall be respected and ensured.

What interests us the most in Africa today, is the collaboration for the purpose of achieving unity for the benefit of Africa and as a contribution to world peace.