Thank you very much for that very warm welcome, sister and brothers, comrades, all. May I start off, sisters and brothers, by bringing to you warm greetings from the free people of revolutionary Grenada.

May I also right at this very beginning, say how very, very pleasant it is to be back in New York among you, to be in this great hall, where there are so many hundreds of our sisters and brothers, that is going to bring a great deal of pleasure to our free people. And I will sit and report your warmth, your enthusiasm, and your revolutionary support for our process when I return.

Of course we are here among friends. But looking around, there are two people here who are right now representing their country at the United Nations. People who are involved in liberation struggles. People who are struggling for their national liberation, for justice, for freedom for the country’s, freedom for the peoples. It is very important right at the beginning, sisters and brothers, that we acknowledge the presence of Dr [Zehdi Labib] Terzi, the representative to the United Nations of the People’s Liberation Organization, the PLO.