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“If the Soviet fleet is really deployed in the Mediterranean to safeguard peace, then why last year, when it was really there, did it not prevent Israel from attacking the Arab States and occupying their territories? Would it, perchance, do so in future when the Soviet- American alliance has further advanced its plot to destroy the freedom and independence of the peoples? 82. There can be no doubt that all the events in the Middle East result from the joint aggressive imperialist plans of the two Powers against the Arab States, and that their fleets in the Mediterranean are watch-dogs to ensure that these plans are carried out. The freedom-loving peoples of the Mediterranean region are now well acquainted with these bitter enemies.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“It is clear that the increase in the co-ordinated activity of the two Powers and the movements and concentrations of their troops and warships (for example, the recent concentration of Soviet troops in Bulgaria and the strengthening and manoeuvres of Soviet naval forces in the Mediterranean) are certainly not designed to defend peace, as these two Powers assure us, but rather to carry through their joint aggressive plans against the freedom-loving peoples and countries of that region. Despite the differences which exist between the two Powers in the Mediterranean, the purpose of their fleets is the same: to threaten and destroy the freedom of the peoples of that region.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“We are firmly convinced that the United Arab Peoples, inspired by their great military tradition, will be able to extend and carry forward this just struggle until they have triumphed once and for all over imperialism and its tool Israel. 81. At this juncture we are bound to note that the policy of force and world hegemony pursued by the two major Powers is the direct cause of the present tense and dangerous situation in the Mediterranean, where their war fleets are deployed and operating. The peaceful and freedom-loving countries of that region are bound to be particularly concerned by the threatening and aggressive activities of those two fleets, especially now in view of the situation created by the aggressive attacks in the Middle East and Czechoslovakia.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Developments since last year’s aggression have confirmed that the only settlement that is just and in keeping with the vital interests and legitimate rights of the Arab States and with peace and security in the Middle East is to put into effect the measures proposed in the draft resolution submitted by the People’s Republic of Albania on 26 June 1967. We adhere to our just position, and insist that it is the only possible solution for the situation which has arisen since Israel’s aggression. The whole Albanian people are following with great sympathy and interest the armed struggle of the people in the areas occupied by Israel, and is delighted at their success.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The just struggle waged by the Arab peoples against the Israel aggressors is developing and gaining ground. The armed struggle conducted by the partisans of the Palestinian people in the Arab territories occupied by Israel is growing apace and has the sympathy and support of all revolutionary peoples. 80. The Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Albania, in line with its policy of adherence to Marxist-Leninist principles and steadfastly faithful to the ties of traditional close friendship linking the Albanian people to their brothers the Arab peoples, has vehemently condemned the aggression of 5 June and has resolutely supported the just struggle of the Arab States and peoples for freedom and national independence.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“When the Arab peoples decide to go ahead and regain their legitimate rights, they are certain to be opposed, not only by their old enemies, but also by the Soviet revisionists. 79. But all the criminal designs and diabolical manoeuvres, all the military and economic pressures designed to subjugate the Arab States and take advantage of their strategic position and their wealth, particularly of the oil in their region, are doomed to failure. The aggression of June 1967 and subsequent events have clearly shown the Arab peoples who their enemies are, and have taught them not to expect anything from the two great Powers but to rely mainly on their own strength and on their solidarity with other peoples. Today they realize more clearly than ever their vital need to unite in their struggle to win freedom and safeguard their independence.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“All that the mission of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Gunnar Jarring, can do is to give Israel more time to consolidate its aggressive and expansionist policies. 78. At present the Soviets claim that they are aiding the Arab peoples with weapons with which to liberate their territories. This is bluff. The aim of the Soviet revisionists, in league with the American imperialists, is to curb the revolutionary spirit of the Arab peoples. The Soviet Union is no champion of the Arab peoples; it is acting as a watch-dog for the American imperialists’ interests in the Middle East and at the same time is trying to bring these countries under its own influence.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Peaceful peoples and States of all continents are revolted by this state of affairs and are expressing their profound indignation against those mainly responsible for it — the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, these two Powers are trying to put into practice the plans hatched at Glassboro, by imposing on the Arab peoples the so-called political settlement which in fact is just another hoax, like the “peace negotiations”, “negotiations for better understanding", and the like, all of which are designed to trample on the higher interests of the Arab peoples, their independence and their territorial integrity, and to encourage the expansionist policy of the Israel aggressors. The same is true of Security Council resolution 242 of 22 November 1967, which is merely another outcome of American-Soviet barter.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“An intolerable situation has existed in the Middle East since the imperialist-Israel aggression of last June against the United Arab Republic, Syria and Jordan. Arab territories are still occupied by the troops of the fascist Tel Aviv Government, and the Arab peoples of those territories, their national pride gravely wounded, are still languishing under the yoke of the occupants. Meanwhile Israel is continuing its aggressive and provocative activities against the Arab countries and is shamelessly threatening and blackmailing them with the support and at the instigation of the American imperialists. The freedom-loving peoples of the Middle East are living today in a situation of grave insecurity.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The heroic people of Viet-Nam have shown the whole world that no force, device or trickery can overcome their iron will to carry through their heroic struggle to final victory. All the freedom-loving peoples of the world support the Viet-Namese people. As in the past, the Albanian people and Government support their Viet-Namese brothers in their dedicated struggle against the American imperialist aggressors. We are convinced that no efforts the imperialists and their accomplices may employ, however desperate, will ever succeed in stopping the triumphant march of the heroic Viet-Namese people to final victory, the expulsion of the American aggressors, the liberation of their nation and the reunification of their country. 77.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The American imperialists are obviously not renouncing any of their aggressive designs against Viet-Nam. The facts have shown that even the so-called limitation of the bombing of North Viet-Nam is only a trick. Since the adoption of that measure the bombing of North Viet-Nam, far from diminishing, has been still further intensified and has caused far greater destruction than in the past — in accordance with the American imperialists’ strategic plan to destroy North Viet-Nam. 76. There can be no doubt, and it is historically proven, that any concession to the diabolical American-Soviet manoeuvres and plans can only encourage aggression. Only through armed struggle will the Viet-Namese people triumph over the American aggressors.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Soviet revisionist aggression against Czechoslovakia illustrates the danger of the great Soviet-American conspiracy and of the criminal attempts of the two Powers to divide the world into spheres of influence and to reward each other for their conquests at the expense of the peoples. 74. The acts of aggression committed in Viet-Nam, Czechoslovakia, in the Middle East and elsewhere are all links in the same chain. They are an integral part of the great counter-revolutionary imperialist conspiracy which was crystallized and refined at the notorious meeting between Johnson and Kosygin at Glassboro, held on the very day after Israel’s attack on the Arab States. Events since that meeting have confirmed our assessments and forecasts about the Soviet-American plot. 75.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The United States Government, beset by unprecedented difficulties both at home and abroad, such as the total failure of its aggression in Viet-Nam, the dollar crisis, the heroic and unyielding struggle of the American Negroes and the tempestuous revolutionary struggle of the peoples on all continents, its isolation in the world arena and so on, and ably assisted by the clique of Soviet revisionist renegades, is endeavouring to extricate itself from its messy war in Viet-Nam by means of treacherous “peace negotiations”. The Soviet revisionists are playing all their cards, are doing their utmost, to reward American imperialism for its tacit approval of their aggression in Czechoslovakia by trying to compel the people of Viet-Nam to capitulate to the aggressors.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Another consequence of the great Soviet-American conspiracy is the barbarous aggression perpetrated against the people of Viet-Nam for many years by the American imperialists. The Viet-Namese people have, through their heroic struggle, dealt a series of crushing blows at the Yankee aggressors, who have never been in such a critical situation as they are today. Despite the various kinds of military action undertaken by the United States Government, despite the intensification of the war in the South and of the bombings in the North, the American imperialists have become completely and hopelessly locked in an impasse in Viet-Nam.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The denunciation of the Warsaw Pact has further strengthened the defensive policy of our socialist fatherland and has dealt a crushing blow at the chauvinistic great-Power aggressive policy of the Khrushchevian revisionists. By denouncing the Warsaw Pact we demonstrated yet again to the world our revolutionary peace- and freedom-loving policy. By that act we showed that the Albanian people, their Party and their Government refuse to recognize the spheres of influence of the two major imperialist and revisionist Powers and will in no circumstances be party to a coalition of aggression. We have thus discharged our internationalist duty to make our modest contribution to the peoples struggling for freedom and independence against imperialist and revisionist aggression. 73.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The aggression against the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia has clearly confirmed the statement made long ago by the Workers’ Party and the Government of the People’s Republic of Albania that the Warsaw Pact has been turned into an instrument to be used by the revisionist, Soviet leadership to subjugate and attack the Socialist member countries. Just as the aggressive NATO bloc is an instrument of subjugation in the hands of the United States, so the Warsaw Pact has been converted into an aggressive instrument of subjugation to be used by the Soviet leadership. 72. The withdrawal of the People’s Republic of Albania from the Warsaw Pact organization was an act of great national and international significance.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The Albanian Government, guided by the just Marxist-Leninist doctrine, has waged a firm struggle of principle against the subversive attempts of the revisionist leadership of the Soviet Union to transform the Pact into an instrument for imposing its chauvinistic great-Power will on the signatory countries and peoples. For. that reason the Moscow leaders, supported by their partisans in the other States members of the Pact Organization, have for a long time in fact excluded the People’s Republic of Albania. 71.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“However, as Comrade Mehmet Shehu, President of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Albania, made quite clear in the detailed statement he delivered to the People’s Assembly on 13 September 1968, the Soviet revisionists and their followers, pursuing the counter-revolutionary policy established at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, have gradually distorted the Warsaw Pact and eventually transformed it from a treaty of peace and defence against imperialist aggression and West German revanchism into an aggressive treaty to be used by the Soviet Khrushchevian leadership against the Socialist countries themselves. 70.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The purpose of the Warsaw Pact was to guarantee the security of States Parties through their joint forces against any imperialist aggression, particularly by the North Atlantic bloc headed by the United States, and also to strengthen co-operation among socialist States in all fields on the basis of the lofty principles of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism. So long as the Government of the Soviet Union and the governments of the other States members of the Warsaw Pact organization abide by the Pact’s objects and provisions, the People’s Republic of Albania was an active member, was steadfastly faithful to the Pact’s spirit and aims, and fulfilled all the obligations arising from its fundamental provisions. 69.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The Czechoslovak people will triumph over all the plans of their revisionist, imperialist and West-German revanchist enemies. They have the support of all freedom-loving revolutionary peoples, including the people of the Soviet Union and of the other countries taking part in this act of aggression. 67. It was in full accord with this policy of ours that the People’s Assembly of the People’s Republic of Albania decided on 14 September 1968 to denounce the Warsaw Pact, concluded on 13 May 1955 between eight Socialist States of Europe, including the People’s Republic of Albania. Since the adoption of that decision by its People’s Assembly, Albania has been exempt from all obligations deriving from the Pact. 68.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Everyone is now fully aware that the American-Soviet bloc represents a grave threat and should be the first target of the peoples’ struggle and attack. 66. The Albanian people, its Party and its Government have vehemently condemned the brutal aggression committed against the Czechoslovak people. Our Party and our Government declared on the day after the invasion that the whole Albanian people fully supported their Czechoslovak brothers, and expresses our feelings on the firmest internationalist solidarity. We are convinced that the peace-loving Czechoslovak people will never tolerate the occupation of their fatherland or submit to the dictates of the Soviet revisionist occupants. They will intensify their struggle in all its forms until they are completely liberated from the foreign occupants and their perfidious local henchmen.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The invasion of Czechoslovakia has thus been a lesson both for the Czechoslovak people and for the peoples of other countries where the revisionists are in power, who can only expect the same fate. It has shown them quite clearly the dangerous deadlock into which the treacherous policy of the Khrushchevian leadership of the Soviet Union has led them, and their need to launch immediately a firm and tenacious struggle against the Soviet revisionists and their supporters, and against the American imperialists and the Soviet-American bloc. The August invasion was also a bitter lesson for the Arab peoples of the Middle East, and for the peoples of Asia (including Viet-Nam) Africa, Latin America and the whole world.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The Soviet aggressors’ attempts to justify their occupation of Czechoslovakia on the fallacious pretext of safeguarding Socialism in Czechoslovakia, or of protecting it from the danger of its rapprochement with Federal Germany and other western countries, and their other outworn nonsense of the type customarily used by aggressors, can in no way deceive the peoples of the world. These are fully aware that the Soviet revisionists have long since completely destroyed the principles of socialism in the Soviet Union and have turned it into a capitalist State; that they were the first to establish diplomatic and other relations with the Bonn Government; and that above all they are linked with the arch-imperialists, the United States of America, in a counter-revolutionary holy alliance to oppress and dominate the peoples of the world. 65.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“All the peoples of the world have expressed their profound rage and indignation and have vehemently condemned this barbarous and monstrous aggression, which tramples underfoot the fundamental principles of relations between States and endangers freedom and peace in Europe and throughout the world. This perfidious and monstrous attack against Czechoslovakia is a crushing humiliation for the Soviet Union, the birthplace of the great October Revolution, and for the Soviet people and their armed forces. No one can any longer have the slightest confidence in the Soviet Union and the clique of Khrushchevian renegades which governs it. 64.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The circumstances surrounding this act of aggression by the Soviet Union’s revisionists and the benevolent attitude of their main accomplices, the imperialists of the United States of America, have laid bare to the peoples of the world the co-operation which exists between these two conspiring Powers and their aggressive plans to allocate spheres of influence and dominate the world, and have shown that this act of aggression is only one link in the chain of the two Powers’ global strategy. 63. The aggression of the Soviet Union revisionists has revealed them as the adventurist renegades that they are.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The aggression against Czechoslovakia proved quite conclusively that the Khrushchevian leadership, which practises great-Power chauvinism, is now resorting to force and armed aggression against those members of the Warsaw Pact which do not obey its dictates, in order to resolve disagreements with its partners in that Pact resulting from the bourgeois degeneracy of the revisionists. 62.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The armed aggression committee last August in the name of the Warsaw Pact on the Czechoslovak people, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the troops of the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of Poland, the German Democratic Republic, the People’s Republic of Hungary and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, was an act of fascist banditry which best revealed in their true colours the Soviet revisionists who dominate the organization of the Pact. It is a consequence of the ideological and political degeneracy of the present Soviet leadership, which has transformed the Soviet Union into an aggressive imperialist State and of the all-embracing Soviet-American strategic counter-revolutionary plan to suppress the freedom of the peoples and to dominate the world.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The one disarms, by ideology, the other strikes at the revolution with its armed forces. 60. In Viet-Nam, the Soviet revisionists preach shameful capitulation; the Americans bomb night and day and extend the war. The prime target of the Soviet-American pact is obviously the People’s Republic of China; for this great impregnable fortress, defending the liberty of peoples and their anti-imperialist struggles for liberty, is the main obstacle to the imperialists’ schemes. 61.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The blow at the great Arab revolutionary movement was organized jointly: the Israeli-Americans used force while the Soviets stood by. 58. The Soviet revisionists are also imperialists: they are opposed to the unity of the Arab peoples and their slogan is that of the imperialists — divide and rule. We love the Arab peoples; we are well acquainted with the Soviet revisionists and their schemes, and we, as well as the Arab leaders, know how these were threatened by Nikita Khrushchev in his time. May they never trust his disciples, for these, under the cloak of their so-called assistance, hide a dagger! 59. In Latin America the Soviet revisionists and their local henchmen advocate co-existence with the cliques in power, while the American imperialists strike with their weapons at the revolution which erupts everywhere.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Both are frenziedly doing their utmost to seize world markets everywhere, to exploit the peoples of the world barbarously so as to make them economically dependent, to plunder them and make them sweat blood and water. This is the new colonialism. 56. All the so-called assistance and credit granted by these two Powers is political and means economic dependence. All resistance by the peoples or their national democratic leaders is repressed by weapons or by coups d'état incited by the new colonizers. 57. These machinations, compounded between the United States of America and the revisionist Soviet Union, are perpetrated not only as isolated attacks by each for itself but also in a co-ordinated continental! pattern.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The Czechoslovak representative came to this rostrum and, concealing his true feelings, spoke the language of the invaders and tried to convince us that we should not speak of rights, freedom, independence, sovereignty and socialism in Czechoslovakia because they are the concern of the invader, Jakubovski. No! No one can close the mouths of us Albanians — neither Jakubovski, nor his cannon, nor his atomic weapons. And the Albanian people will strenuously defend their freedom and rights, and the rights of the peoples of the world, as long as a single Albanian still lives in it. 55. The two imperialist Powers, the United States of America and the revisionist Soviet Union, have not only allocated their spheres of interest in the world but have also co-ordinated their strategy and tactics.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“But we are convinced that the peoples will not let themselves be deceived by the imperialists and revisionists who, already armed to the teeth, go on arming themselves while they say: “Lay down your arms, for we will defend you.” In other words, “Become our slaves because we will defend your freedom, your independence and your sovereignty”. That means, put your head in the lion’s mouth. 54. Typical in this respect is the statement made by the representative of Czechoslovakia [A/PV.1682] — that talented, democratic and progressive country, martyred by new invaders who are despicably and crudely laying down the law, not only in Czechoslovakia but also here in this Hall.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Our duty is to raise our voice high and make all honest people of the world understand that the American imperialists and the Soviet revisionists are preparing a third world war and to that end are waging and will continue to wage small-scale wars. 52. Peoples of the world, we must be on the alert! Either we must accept the heavy yoke of the new fascists, or we must prepare to struggle against them. The people of Albania have struggled for centuries against political and social servitude. They are armed, they are prepared to repel any aggression blow for blow, and they will overcome every aggressor. 53. Every nation is aware of its duty and knows how it must act in the face of this threatening situation.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“What this counter-revolutionary in fact said to us here in this Assembly, with extreme effrontery, was more or less this: "Go ahead and make speeches in this Hall; we two, Rusk and I, make our decisions elsewhere”. But we in this Hall say to Rusk and Gromyko that very few put any trust in their words and that, although they may make their decisions elsewhere, the revolutionary peoples of the world will bring their plans to naught. The people will win, socialism will triumph, and imperialism and revisionism will be defeated and destroyed. 51. The imperialists and revisionists churn out their pompous phrases about peace, democracy, and a world free of weapons and wars.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Of course they inevitably finished on the same note: they must strengthen their alliances and pacify their respective partners in NATO and the Warsaw Pact: They must create among their bands of accomplices the impression that the Soviet-American alliance is strong, lead them to believe that their safety depends entirely on greater submission to the United States of America and to the Soviet Union, and persuade them that their real danger is revolution, the national liberation struggles of the peoples, the peoples’ vast democratic masses, the mighty world proletariat and the glorious China of Mao Tse-tung with its 700 million inhabitants. 50. Gromyko, both before and after delivering his statement, met Rusk, talked with him and sat at table with him like a brother and a friend.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“His statement was described as “very moderate” by the imperialist American press, and as “conciliatory” by the world capitalist press. He too defended the imperialist policy of the Soviet revisionists, their aggression, their oppression and subjugation of peoples, the Soviet-American counter-revolutionary conspiracy, the sharing of spheres of influence, and world domination by the two Powers. 49.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The General Assembly has heard the statement made by Dean Rusk, [A/PV.1677] the representative of blood-thirsty American imperialism — a statement which can deceive no one. He defends the subjugation of the peoples and the atrocious imperialist wars of plunder; his policy is based on blackmail and the threat of a third world war; he proposes only to join the Soviet revisionists in dividing the world into spheres of influence and preparing a third world war, to be waged along with the Soviet Union against the People’s Republic of China and other peace-loving sovereign peoples. To Czechoslovakia, he made only a perfunctory reference, to which Gromyko, the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union and his accomplice in these sinister machinations, did not even deign to reply. 48. But what did Gromyko say?”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“This is not their fault; it is not that they lack courage or strong democratic and anti-imperialist convictions; it is because they are under shameless pressure from the imperialists and revisionists. 45. The United States imperialists and the Soviet imperialist revisionists dominate the “United Nations”; they dominate its stage and corridors not only in this Hall but on every floor of this glass palace and wherever this Organization is active. 46. The representatives of the people and of the States speak here: they suggest and criticize; they condemn aggression against people and discuss problems vital to mankind. But the two imperialist Powers and their accomplices in crime lay down the law here and try, though vainly, to impose their barbarous laws outside the Organization, on the peoples of the world. 47.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“You may claim that it is unseemly.for diplomats to use such language. But, American and Soviet guns, planes and tanks do not speak diplomatic language. I am convinced of one thing: that our brothers the Burmese people, whom we love and respect, speak as we do on this matter. 43. We who are gathered here as the representatives of our States call ourselves the United Nations; but in fact we are divided, not united. 44. All of us here are entitled under the Charter to speak for as long as we wish, when we wish and how we wish. But this is only a seeming, since many democratic and patriotic representatives from various countries say one thing when their hearts say another.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Secretary-General, did you deem it necessary to make your proposal before the opening of the General Assembly and so give the impression that everything depended on four and not on 125 members of the Organization? Do you not think that the activities of the two major Powers in the General Assembly, in the Security Council, in the corridors, at Camp David and at Glassboro are already doing enough harm to the Assembly and the peoples? 41. We should agree with you if you spoke frankly from this rostrum and told the Americans to leave Viet-Nam and the Soviets to leave Czechoslovakia; if you said to the Israel aggressors “Clear out of the occupied Arab territories!” and to the American and Soviet imperialists "Clear out of your aggressive land and naval bases in foreign countries!” 42.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The Secretary-General, U Thant, proposed in the introduction to his annual report [A/7201/Add.1] that the so-called Big Four should meet to settle the question of peace and other questions. Everyone, including the Secretary-General, is entitled to submit proposals. Nevertheless, we reject this inadequate proposal of his, made on the very eve of the opening of this session of the General Assembly. 39. We ask the Secretary-General: what has more value, the meeting of the General Assembly or the meeting of four of its members? Why has this Assembly met? Surely we are gathered here to consider and settle the major international issues; and surely this Assembly is capable of bringing to book two or three Powers which have flouted it and set at naught the rights of the peoples. 40. Why then, Mr.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The imperialists and revisionists can expect only further resounding and conclusive defeats. 36. You, gentlemen, you American imperialists and Soviet revisionists: you are well aware that the words of the representative of a small nation do not fall on deaf ears in this Assembly, and still less outside it, among the peoples of the world; because what we say here is said by hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people on all continents with whom we are irresistibly united against you. 37. Even here in this Assembly, gentlemen, you American imperialists and Soviet revisionists only appear to be in the majority, whereas we have the hearts of all democratic patriots who are devoted to the great cause of the people. We fight for living hearts; you may take the corpses. 38.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“This is proved by the strikes and struggles of workers and peasants in all capitalist countries. It is confirmed by the assault of young people and students throughout the world, fearlessly and relentlessly attacking the rotten capitalist citadel on all sides in continuous waves. It is confirmed by the uprisings of the Negro revolutionaries within the citadel of American imperialism. 35. Revolution is forging ahead and no force can stop it. Neither the Glassboro talks and deals, nor any future meetings and deals between the imperialist and revisionist leaders, nor their secret or overt plans can improve their situation. Whatever they may wish or do, the tide will flow against them and in favour of the peoples and their freedom and true independence.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The imperialist world headed by American imperialism, and modern revisionism headed by the new imperialism of Soviet revisionism, are passing through a radical political, economic and military crisis. These two countries claim to be world super-Powers and attempt to intimidate the world and its peoples with their weapons, their economic strength and their intrigues. But they are rotten to the core, because the decisive force in the world is the peoples, and the peoples are against them. They have rebelled, they will rebel and will strike each day with greater violence against this handful of bloodthirsty pirates and arch-blackmailers. This is proved by the struggles for freedom waged on all continents: these do not and never will subside. Some of them seem stifled, but flare up again more violently than before.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“A few weeks ago yet another act of armed aggression was committed against Czechoslovakia by the Soviet imperialists and their lackeys of the Warsaw Pact organization with the complicity of the American imperialists. Nowadays, when one of the two great Powers directly commits an act of criminal aggression, the other is its accomplice, and vice versa. The facts show that, in the schemes of the two great Powers, the unilateral occupation of given areas by each party should follow and offset that of the other after a certain interval. 34. The international situation is nevertheless developing in favour of the liberation of the peoples and of revolution.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“30. Allow me first to convey to the President the congratulations of the delegation of the People’s Republic of Albania on the occasion of his election to the Presidency of this session of the General Assembly. 31. For many years the General Assembly has been faced at each of its sessions with new acts of aggression perpetrated against freedom-loving peoples and countries by the imperialists and their accomplices as part of their policy of oppressing and subjugating the peoples. 32. In addition to the aggression perpetrated for many years by the American imperialists against the people of Viet-Nam, a new act of armed aggression was committed last year in the Middle East: the imperialist American-Israel aggression against the Arab countries, in which the new imperialists of the Soviet Union acted as the main accomplices. 33.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“They are firmly convinced that the heroic and revolutionary struggle of freedom-loving peoples and countries will totally destroy the imperialist policy of intervention, oppression and aggression, and that in the end that struggle will wipe out the imperialist system — a source of war, oppression and exploitation of the peoples — itself. 79. The just path of political principle firmly pursued by our Government in its relations with other States and with regard to all international problems will guide the delegation of the People's Republic of Albania in its consideration of the items on the agenda of the current session.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“The People's Republic of Albania has faithfully followed a policy of international peace, friendship and co-operation based on the principles of the sovereign equality of States, of non-interference in their domestic affairs and of mutual self-interest, It has done and will do its utmost in the future to bring, along with other freedom-loving and peace-loving countries and peoples, its modest contribution to the cause of freedom, peace and the strengthening of friendship among peoples. 78. The Albanian people and its Government have supported and will always support unreservedly the struggle the peoples are waging for national and social liberation and for the defence and strengthening of national independence and sovereignty against the designs of the imperialists and their cohorts.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“Thanks to the revolutionary vigilance of the Albanian people, thanks to its monolithic unity and to the just leadership of party and Government, all the hostile attempts, all the plots and all the diabolical designs of the imperialists and revisionists have failed ignominiously, and the People's Republic of Albania has continued to advance triumphantly along the road of socialism towards progress and prosperity in all fields. As in the past, the Albanian people will in the future victoriously safeguard the victories of the revolution and its socialist homeland; it will give its enemies the response they deserve, and it will wipe out all attempts made against it, of whatever nature they may be. 77.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“Under the just leadership of its party and its Government, the Albanian people has achieved significant successes in its peaceful work of building socialism in its country. In the building of its new life, it has been obliged to struggle resolutely against the many attempts of the Imperialists, and of their collaborators and tools of all kinds, to wrest from it its gains in its revolutionary national liberation struggle, and to transform our country into a colony and into a training-ground in accordance with their aggressive designs.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)