Date: 3 October 1932
Location: Geneva
Speaker: Aga Khan III
Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz
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Felicitations on independence – welcome to the League member ship – old ti.es with India.
On behalf of the Government and peoples of India, I wish most heartily to congratulate Iraq on her independence and to welcome her entry into the League.
The whole world knows the long and intimate spiritual, cultural and economic relations between India and the lands that to-day form the Kingdom of Iraq. We sincerely hope and pray that a future of great prosperity and peace, worthy of its great history, awaits Iraq as a Member of the League of Nations.
Source: League of Nations Official journal, Special Supplement No. 102: Records of the Special Session of the Assembly Convened in Virtue of Article 15 of the Covenant at the Request of the Chinese Government, Vol. 2, Geneva, 1932, p. 21.
This was the seventh plenary meeting held at 3.30 p.m. The first speak.er was Tevfik Rustu Bey of Turkey, the second M. Berenger of France, the third the Aga Khan of India, and the fourth M. Foroughi of Persia.