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“Law in Czechoslovakia today is made by tanks and bayonets. By fire and by sword the masters are trying to stifle the will of the Czechoslovak people to reconquer its national dignity, its freedom and its independence, which were trampled underfoot on 21 August 1968. 160. The events which have occurred during one year of occupation, and particularly the recent events on the anniversary of 21 August, have once again demonstrated to the whole world that neither a reign of terror, nor tanks, nor a state of siege, nor emergency powers can succeed in curbing the legitimate resistance and struggle of the Czechoslovak people. It will never bow to the foreign invaders and its struggle for freedom will be strengthened and developed in every possible way and by all possible means until victory is won. 161.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“It knows that “peaceful” negotiations, American-style, are intended to undermine its legitimate struggle for freedom and to perpetuate the United States occupation of South Viet-Nam in accordance with aggressive imperialist-revisionist plans against the other countries of the region and, primarily, against the People’s Republic of China. 158. The Albanian people and its Government have been and always will be at the side of their brothers of Viet-Nam. We are profoundly convinced that, by resolutely pursuing its armed struggle to the bitter end, the people of Viet-Nam will bring about the ignominious failure of these diabolical plots and will achieve its sacred aspirations. 159. Progressive humanity has unanimously condemned the perfidious armed aggression of the Soviet revisionists against Czechoslovakia.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“It was precisely on the eve of total United States defeat in Viet-Nam that the Soviet revisionists made their greatest efforts, as compensation for the benevolent attitude adopted by the United States with regard to their aggression in Czechoslovakia, to extricate their imperialist United States partners from a difficult situation, to save their face and their imperialist positions and to win for them at the conference table what they had been unable to obtain on the battlefield, namely, the capitulation of the people of Viet-Nam to the Yankee aggressors. 157. But the people of Viet-Nam has never fallen to its knees. It is well aware of the fact that only by armed struggle can it win complete victory over the aggressors.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“One of the consequences of the great Soviet-American counter-revolutionary conspiracy is the armed aggression of the Yankee imperialists against the people of Viet-Nam, which has been in progress now for several years. Despite the barbarous means to which the United States imperialists have had recourse, despite the continuous escalation of the war in the south and the most ferocious bombing raids in the north, the people of Viet-Nam has, by its heroic struggle, dealt a series of shattering, blows to the aggressors and has driven them to the wall.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“This is confirmed, inter alia, by the agreements and plans of these two Powers in the field of nuclear weapons, including the bargaining at present in progress between their Foreign Ministers with regard to strategic arms; by the many deals, deceptions and pressures of all kinds in connexion with the question of Viet-Nam and that of the Middle East; by the aggression against Czechoslovakia and its military occupation; by their haggling over the German question and over that of West Berlin; by their joint plans to bring Europe and Asia under their sway and, in particular, by the encirclement of the People’s Republic of China and the war being waged against it and in many other ways. 156.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“In essence, all these plans and machinations are designed to counter the struggle for freedom of the oppressed peoples and nations, to enslave both them and other independent nations, to exploit the peoples and pillage their wealth, to establish the world hegemony of the two Powers by dividing the globe into spheres of influence.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Indeed, the imperialists of the United States of America and the Soviet Union are hated; they are being increasingly fought and isolated by the peoples. This is their great weakness and will be of decisive importance in hastening their total collapse. 155. Faced with such a situation, the two great Powers are multiplying their aggressive efforts and actions; they are speeding up the arms race and their preparations for war, intensifying their collaboration and hatching new plots and conspiracies. Recently, the contacts between them, their negotiations and dealings both secret and open, which extend to various fields and affect the vital interests of the world community, have become still more frequent.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The revisionist leaders of the Soviet Union are equally prey to numerous contradictions and insuperable difficulties, both domestically and internationally, on account of their betrayal of Marxist-Leninism and of their restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union. Soviet revisionism has now unmasked itself on the world stage as a social imperialist Power linked to the United States of America in a counter-revolutionary “Holy Alliance“ seeking to rule the world. 154. The peace-loving peoples and countries are becoming aware that United States-Soviet collusion is the most serious threat and danger to their common cause, their sovereign rights and international peace and security, and that the struggle against such a conspiracy has become an imperative objective necessity.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Following the most shattering defeat it has ever suffered in its armed aggression against Viet-Nam, and as a result of the reverses it has experienced throughout the world owing to its policy of aggression and of oppression of peoples, the United States of America is becoming more and more deeply enmeshed in serious economic, financial and political crises. Its internal and external contradictions become daily more flagrant. Its policy of global strategy and of world rule has received irreparable damage. United States imperialism has blundered into a blind alley from which there can be no escape. 153.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The flames of the armed struggle for freedom burn ever higher, becoming stronger and spreading further, engulfing vast regions of the globe and extending from the Pacific and Indo-China to the Middle East, to Africa and other areas. The world is evolving in a direction favourable to the peoples and against imperialism, its allies and its tools. 152. The successive waves of the peoples’ struggle have dealt harsh blows to the ringleader of imperialism, the United States of America, and are speeding its decline.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“As a result of the policy of positions of strength pursued by these two great Powers, a serious international situation has arisen which is fraught with grave dangers for general peace and security. 151. Today the oppressed peoples and nations are more than ever aware of their legitimate rights. Their revolt is taking an increasingly vigorous form. The storm of the revolutionary struggle for national liberation and social progress is raging in the four corners of the earth. It is developing continuously to become an impetuous torrent which has shaken imperialism, colonialism and international reaction to their very foundations and which is getting the main hand, the great and glorious path of history, along which human society is rapidly advancing.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“149. In the first place, Madam President, let me congratulate you warmly on behalf of the delegation of the People’s Republic of Albania on your election as President of the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly. 150. During this year, the course of events in the world arena has been characterized by the continued upsurge of revolutionary and national liberation movements, by the heightened struggle of the peaceful and freedom-loving countries to safeguard their independence and their higher vital interests. Those interests are being increasingly menaced by the policy of intervention and imperialist domination followed by the United States of America and the revisionists of the Soviet Union, which are intensifying their aggressive activities in accordance with their joint plans to subject the world to their hegemony.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“This statement by our people’s beloved leader, Comrade Enver Hoxha, who for three decades has wisely guided the Albanian people from victory to victory on the path of revolution and socialism, is a clear warning to our enemies and a firm internationalist commitment to all friendly and freedom-loving people and countries. 116. In conclusion, I wish to express the conviction of the Albanian delegation that during the current session of the General Assembly we, the peaceful and freedom-loving peoples, who constitute the overwhelming majority here, will be increasing our united efforts and our common struggle against the aggressive American-Soviet imperialist bloc contribute effectively to the struggle of the peoples against imperialism and colonialism for freedom, peace and progress.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“On 30 September 1968 the leader of the Albanian people, Comrade Enver Hoxha, said: “Let no one think that Albania is a small country and that one can easily settle accounts with her. All attempts of the enemies, be they imperialists, revisionists or their satellites, to violate the integrity of the People’s Republic of Albania in the slightest will be drowned in the sea of the armed struggle of our people. Let our enemies take note of this, and our friends may rest assured that the Albanian people and their Party of Labour will fulfil their national and international duties with honour”. 115.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“This message from Comrades Mao-Tse-tung, Lin Piao and Chou En-lai is further dramatic evidence of the internationalist ties of steel, based on the immortal principles of Marxism-Leninism, which exist between the most populous and a small socialist State. It is further evidence of the real meaning of the invincible fraternal solidarity forged in our common struggle. It shows the peoples of the whole world the importance of having a loyal friend like the great China of Mao Tse-tung, which stands like an invincible giant beside all revolutionary peoples. 113. This message from the leaders of the great Chinese people is a firm, serious and categorical warning to the imperialists, the revisionists and their henchmen that, if they dare to touch Albania, if they play with fire against Albania, they can expect certain death. 114.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Moreover, our enemies must not forget that Albania does not stand alone, for it has friends — all the peoples of the world — and its great and steadfastly loyal friend, mighty invincible People’s China, the main counter-imperialist and counter-revisionist force in the world. 111. The telegram dated 17 September 1968 from Comrades Mao Tse-tung, Lin Piao and Chou En-lai to Comrades Enver Hoxha and Mehmet Shehu reads as follows: “The Chinese people 700 million strong, further strengthened and toughened in the great proletarian cultural revolution, will always and in all circumstances steadfastly support its brothers the Albanian people. If the American imperialists, the Soviet revisionists or their lackeys dare to touch a single hair of Albania, they can expect only total, shameful and inevitable defeat". 112.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The Albanian frontiers are inviolable and cannot be crossed, since they are defended by a valiant revolutionary and iron-willed people and by an heroic Party. If any aggression is committed against our fatherland, whether by the aggressive NATO bloc, the aggressive Warsaw Pact bloc, or by anyone else, then the whole Albanian people, large and small, including its old people and children, will fight so fiercely that the world will tremble, and will show the aggressors whom they are dealing with and that anyone who violates the sacred soil of our territory will not escape alive. 110.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“If the Bulgarian Government continues to allow the territory of Bulgaria to be used by Soviet revisionist forces as a base for aggression against the Balkan peoples, it will be assuming a grave responsibility which will also be condemned by the Bulgarian people themselves, to whom the Albanian people are linked by traditional ties of fraternal friendship. 109. Let all the imperialist and revisionist enemies and their puppets know well that no force in the world, no aggressive Power however great, can frighten the Albanian people, who, true to their military traditions toughened by their revolutionary struggle and guided by their heroic Party, have always had unshakable confidence in their own strength.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“107. In emphasizing that the attitude of the Bulgarian Government in this matter constitutes a flagrant violation of the 1947 Treaty between the two countries and seriously jeopardizes the peace and security of the Balkan peoples, including the Bulgarian people itself, as well as the cause of world peace, the Albanian Government states clearly and categorically that it will resolutely condemn all those who dare to commit acts of aggression against the freedom, independence and sovereignty of the peoples of the Balkans and of the world. 108. The Bulgarian Government lacked the courage to reply to the Albanian Government’s note, but tried through the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency to distort the truth by passing over the facts mentioned in our note. However, the concentration of Soviet military forces in Bulgaria cannot be denied.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Not to consent to or participate in any activities directed by anyone against the People’s Republic of Albania; 2. To take immediate steps to ensure that the aggressive Soviet armed forces were withdrawn from its territory as soon as possible, thus eliminating completely, in the interest of peace in the Balkans and throughout the world, the aggressive base which it had allowed to be established on Bulgarian territory. 106. That action by the Albanian Government has particular significance in the present situation, since clearly the deployment of the armed forces of the Soviet revisionists in Bulgaria, following the aggression against Czechoslovakia, is directly linked to the execution of their aggressive plans for allocating spheres of influence in the Balkans and the rest of the world as part of the world-wide American-Soviet conspiracy.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Guided by its revolutionary policy of firmly safeguarding the freedom, independence and sovereignty of our Socialist fatherland, and in accordance with the internationalist doctrine of principle and of support for the freedom and independence of the peoples of the world, particularly of the Balkan peoples, the Government of the People’s Republic of Albania addressed to the Government of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria on 21 September 1968 a note drawing its attention to the grave responsibility it was assuming by allowing the concentration on Bulgarian territory of large numbers of various arms of the Soviet Union’s forces. Acting in accordance with the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance concluded between the two countries in 1947, the Albanian Government called upon the Government of Bulgaria— 1.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Under the just leadership of its Party and Government, the Albanian people have constantly and unreservedly supported the revolutionary struggle of the peoples to achieve national and social liberation and to defend and strengthen their independence and national sovereignty against the imperialists, the colonialists, the modern revisionists and their henchmen. Precisely in accordance with this policy of principle the Albanian people, its Party and its Government most resolutely condemned the monstrous aggression committed by the Soviet revisionists against Czechoslovakia. 105.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Political, military and economic pressure has been exerted and incited by the imperialists, the modern revisionists and their henchmen; but they have failed miserably in face of the revolutionary vigilance, the unshakable convictions, the iron will and the monolithic unity of the Albanian people, tempered by its struggle, intrepid, educated and led by its heroic Workers’ Party. The courageous decision by the People’s Republic of Albania to denounce the aggressive Warsaw Pact and thereby free itself from all obligations arising therefrom is further evidence of its vigilant revolutionary policy. 104.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The outstanding features of our policy towards all States, particularly our neighbours, have always been scrupulous respect for the rules of conduct between States, a firm resolve to maintain relations with those who sincerely abide by those rules, and a spirit of good-neighbourliness based on mutual respect, freedom, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The People’s Republic of Albania has loyally adhered to this policy and has harmed no one. On the other hand, it has often been subjected by its enemies to unjust and intolerable attacks and treatment. Many conspiracies and provocative acts have been directed against its independence.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Our policy towards the Socialist countries and all revolutionary forces is one of fraternal and close friendship and co-operation based on the principles of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism. Our relations with States having different political systems are based on the principles of the sovereign equality of States both large and small, of non-intervention in their domestic affairs, of respect for their sovereignty and of mutually-advantageous co-operation. Through this just policy based on principle the new People’s Republic of Albania has established and continues to develop with many States relations of sincere friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance; with other States it enjoys normal relations which are developing very satisfactorily in various fields. 103.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Through its scrupulous adherence to the principles of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, the Government of the People’s Republic of Albania has stoutly defended the interests and aspirations of the Albanian people and has always followed a revolutionary foreign policy. It has made a correct scientific analysis of each major international event, accurately predicted the development of every situation, and maintained a resolute stand in defence of independence and national sovereignty, of socialism and revolution and of the struggle of the peoples for freedom, national independence and social progress. It has always defended the view that all sovereign States, both large and small, are equal, and that each makes its contribution to international life. 102.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Our countries, which form an overwhelming majority, can by a firm struggle put the two Powers in their. place and prevent the United Nations from being used as an instrument of their aggressive policy of hegemony. Through our joint struggle we can effectively serve the cause of liberty, peace and just international co-operation in accordance with the principles of non-interference in domestic affairs, mutual respect and the sovereign equality of States large and small. 101. The People’s Republic of Albania has consistently pursued a just foreign policy because it has always been guided by the true Marxist-Leninist doctrine of the Workers’ Party of Albania.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“This is urgently required today by the higher interests of international peace and security, which are seriously threatened by the aggressive policy of the American-Soviet coalition and by its attacks on independent and sovereign peoples and States. It is urgently demanded by the higher interest of the peoples who today are struggling against colonial and racist subjugation. It is unconditionally necessary to the vital interests of those States’ national security. 100. Only by a courageous and determined struggle can the small nations and all peace-loving States repulse the two Powers’ manoeuvres and multifarious pressures in the United Nations, destroy their harmful influence here, and enable the Organization to rectify the injustices, shortcomings and deviations that remain.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“It is thus more than clear that the time has come for Member States to understand that this situation can no longer be tolerated and cannot persist if they sincerely wish what accords with the interests of every peace-loving country: that the United Nations should be restored and set on the course which would justify its existence in accordance with the fundamental principles of the Charter. 99. The present international situation must make those Member States which are seriously concerned with freedom and peace aware of the urgent need to intensify their just struggle, unite their efforts and close their ranks into a firm front united against the American imperialists and Soviet revisionists and the policy which is dictated by their imperialist designs to the detriment of the peaceful and freedom-loving peoples of the world.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“No one can deny that the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the only legitimate representative of the great Chinese people and is alone entitled to enjoy the legitimate rights of China in this Organization. Everyone here knows full well that there is no justification for depriving the People’s Republic of China of its rights. The social system established by the revolutionary people of China is a matter which concerns them alone. No government, nor the United Nations, has a right to interfere in the domestic affairs of China. 98.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The vast majority of Member States oppose and condemn this shameful situation which has lasted for so many years; they are aware that it is not only an intolerable violation of the legitimate rights of the great Chinese nation, 700 million strong, and a clear obstacle to the return of the United Nations to the right way, but also an unprecedented blot which can never be erased from the annals of this Organization. This odious situation persists, however, because it suits the aggressive policy of the American imperialists, who are imposing their will on some Member States. 97. China is a Member of the United Nations, a founder Member, and also a permanent member of the Security Council.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Nevertheless, although nineteen years have elapsed since the triumph of the people’s revolution in China, the legitimate rights of this great and powerful State have not yet been restored in the United Nations. Moreover, for nineteen consecutive years its place in the Organization has been occupied by the dregs of the renegade Chiang Kai-shek clique, bought by American imperialism and rejected by the Chinese people since their victorious revolution. 96. This is the grossest scandal for the United Nations, and the most flagrant and ignominious violation of its Charter.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“It is common knowledge that the presence of China has today become a vital necessity for the United Nations, more than ever because of the imperialist collusion between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, which are doing their utmost to divert the efforts of the United Nations for the peoples’ liberation and for international co-operation and peace to the advancement of their own interests and their aggressive plans for world domination. We all know that when the People’s Republic of China, that powerful State with the largest population in the world, enters the United Nations, it will through its weight, its great importance and its enormous international authority effectively influence the Organization’s work in accordance with the peoples’ cherished aspirations. 95.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“No one can say otherwise, since precisely in deference to the American imperialists’ decree the greatest State in the world is still not represented in this Organization: great socialist China, which the peoples struggling against imperialist oppression and aggression see as their most powerful and reliable defender and the invincible champion of their freedom and independence. No one doubts today that without the People’s Republic of China none of the major international problems can be solved.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“It is well known that not only has the United Nations done nothing to solve such serious problems as colonialism and racial discrimination, but its activities in that field have damaged the interests of the peoples still languishing under colonial and racist subjugation, by awakening in them harmful illusions. Previous experience in the United Nations has shown peaceful peoples and countries the truth about the Organization. The peoples of the world now know that they can expect nothing from the United Nations so long as it remains an instrument of American imperialism and a market for transactions between the two great Powers in execution of their global strategy for world domination. 94. Reference is often made here to the universality of the United Nations. But has that principle ever been applied? Certainly not.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The imperialists and the Soviet revisionists are using the United Nations and its organs as a means of legalizing their transactions and mutual agreements, such as the Moscow partial test-ban treaty of 1963 and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which are designed to strengthen their military alliance. 93. Recent experience in particular has shown that the United Nations has strayed completely from the fundamental purposes and principles of the Charter and has become a tool of the world-wide Soviet-American plot.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Of course no one will be deceived by the Soviet aggressors’ memorandum on disarmament, which can do nothing to conceal their betrayal of the peoples or their atrocities. 92. As you know, the endless discussions on disarmament and the numerous proposals submitted in recent years by both the United States and the Soviet Union are nothing but misleading demagogy. The two Powers are hoping thus to put the peoples off guard and to gain time to pursue their arms race and their preparations for war. The proposals and debates on disarmament are only a bluff; so far they have merely camouflaged the co-operation between the two Powers against peace and the peoples’ freedom.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“After all the two Powers’ plots and criminal dealings in different parts of the world, who can fail to perceive the true objectives of Soviet-American collusion? Who in future can believe the demagogy and fraudulent proposals of the imperialists and revisionists? How ridiculous are the proposals contained in the Soviet Government’s memorandum on disarmament [A/7134], submitted to the General Assembly immediately after that Government’s aggression against Czechoslovakia! No one can be deceived by these already obsolete proposals. That memorandum, in the present situation succeeding the aggression committed by the two Powers, is not only absurd but also disrespectful to States Members, an affront to their dignity, and shows that the revisionists are completely unscrupulous.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“It is common knowledge that the United States of America and the Soviet Union are now plotting against the peoples, against the small countries and the developing countries, and that their activities and acts of aggression merely carry out the plans they have hatched together as part of their global strategy for world domination. Their demagogy is now universally discredited. Even some of the countries which a few years ago were trying to contribute to, and for some time supported, an American-Soviet rapprochement, now clearly realize the danger of that alliance to themselves. In other words, the vast majority of Member States are fighting the ill-famed imperialist bloc either directly or indirectly and are trying to free themselves from its dictates, which are seriously detrimental to their national interests. 91.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The peoples of the world are today more aware than ever of the threat represented by the alliance of the two great Powers; they are rushing in ever-increasing numbers into the struggle and fighting ever more resolutely to destroy the aggressive designs of that alliance against their freedom and independence. 90. It cannot be denied that world public opinion is becoming increasingly aware of the true nature of the American-Soviet bloc, which is steadily becoming isolated from all peaceful and freedom-loving peoples and countries. This can also be seen here in the United Nations. Despite the multifarious efforts of the two Powers, despite their diverse threats and pressures and their deceptive and demagogic manoeuvres, they have been completely unmasked and are now hated by the vast majority of Member States.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Ail freedom-loving peoples of the world are with mighty China, which they see as their powerful ally and the unfailing and consistent champion of their revolutionary struggle for freedom, independence and progress. 89. The further the American-Soviet bloc develops its counter-revolutionary imperialist plot, and the more it intensifies its criminal and aggressive activities against the peoples, the stronger will grow the hatred and indignation of all freedom-loving forces against it, and the more vigorously will be waged the revolutionary struggle for liberation from imperialist oppression and aggression.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The great proletarian cultural revolution has increased tenfold the revolutionary force and vitality of the Chinese people; it has given an entirely novel stimulus to the all-round development of the People’s Republic of China, which it has immeasurably strengthened. The great Chinese people, 700 million strong, are a colossal and invincible force, the impregnable fortress of socialism and the freedom of peoples. All the anti-Chinese plots and plans hatched by the American imperialists and Soviet revisionists are doomed to miserable failure; and if they dare to undertake a military adventure against China, it will certainly be their last.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The resounding victory achieved by the establishment of revolutionary committees throughout China — except in the province of Taiwan, which is under American military occupation — marked the final triumph of the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung, the victory of the dictatorship of the proletariat and of socialism over revisionism and imperialism, and the final defeat of the counter-revolutionary plot to seize the fortress from within and restore capitalism in China. 88. Although the imperialists and revisionists spread lies and slander about the People’s Republic of China both inside and outside the United Nations, the Republic’s international authority and prestige are greater than ever.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“China has shattered once and for all the imperialist-revisionist nuclear monopoly, a feat which has been enthusiastically welcomed by freedom-loving States and peoples as an important factor in international peace and security. 87. The triumph of the great Chinese proletarian cultural revolution, which was guided by Chairman Mao Tse-tung in person, was a victory of colossal historic significance not only for socialism and the revolution in China, but for all the revolutionary forces of the world and all progressive mankind.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Nor can we ignore that the deals now being concluded between the Soviet Union and the United States for the deployment of offensive and defensive strategic nuclear weapons are also directed primarily against the People’s Republic of China. 86. But can the imperialists and revisionists frighten the People’s Republic of China with all these efforts and aggressive plans? Will their counter-revolutionary and imperialist designs succeed against the People’s Republic of China? Certainly not, by no means. The People’s Republic of China is a powerful socialist State which has made remarkable progress in all fields of production, science, technology, and defence.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“It should be noted here that the fraudulent Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, designed to force non-nuclear States to recognize the nuclear monopoly of the two great Powers and to make them “protected countries", is also an integral part of the Soviet-American military conspiracy against the People’s Republic of China. Indeed, the American imperialists and Soviet revisionists are hoping to use that Treaty not only to spread anti-Chinese propaganda but also to carry out their plan for encircling China strategically by offering a “nuclear umbrella” to certain countries neighbouring China, such as India, which they have taken in tow.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“In this connexion the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China, Chou En-lai, stated a few days ago on 30 September 1968: “While intensifying their aggression and threats against Eastern Europe, Soviet social imperialists have also committed acts of armed provocation against China. In collusion with the United States imperialists, they are trying desperately to make an iron ring round China by deploying large numbers of troops along the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian frontiers, and at the same time are constantly inciting frontier tension by frequent violations of Chinese air space. This is, of course, not proof of their strength, but rather a sign of their moral bankruptcy, their domestic weakness and their fear.” 85.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Along with their attempts to quash Asian national liberation movements, the American imperialists and Soviet revisionists have increased their efforts to encircle China strategically and prepare acts of military provocation and aggression against it. To that end they are strengthening their ties with the reactionary cliques and governments of the countries of Asia and the Far East, and are trying to draw them into military alliances and to set up more and stronger military bases, including nuclear bases, round the People’s Republic of China. At the same time the two Powers are co-ordinating their provocative actions against China and their plots to increase tension on its frontiers.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Beset by severe domestic and external problems which are constantly accumulating at a breathtaking rate, seriously threatened by a major economic and political crisis, and horrified by the world-wide movement for national and social liberation, these two Powers have increased their joint aggressive activities for the purpose of oppressing and subjugating the freedom-loving revolutionary peoples. 84. In particular, they are trying to secure “peace” in Europe and to consolidate their rear positions there, so that they can concentrate their attacks against Asia and particularly against the People’s Republic of China, the consistent and immovable champion of peoples fighting imperialist aggression, oppression and tyranny, and an insuperable obstacle to the attainment of those Powers’ counter-revolutionary plans for world domination.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“These peoples are vigilant and strong; they have full confidence in their own strength and will fight both the American imperialists and the Soviet revisionists, whose monstrous plans they surely will be able to wreck, crush and defeat. 83. The freedom and independence of the peoples and international peace and security are seriously endangered by the Soviet-American imperialist bloc, whose ultimate objective is world domination by the two great Powers.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)