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MALILE

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first: 1974-09-24
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“It is clear that every attempt on the part of either to gain strategic points or develop new weapons gives rise to problems and tension between them but never to any desire to safeguard true peace. In last year's general debate in the Assembly there was much talk and some optimism about last November's Soviet-United States summit meeting. It may well be that at the Geneva meeting each of the parties made concessions and gained advantages, but we can say with certainty that nothing of benefit to peace resulted.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“With world supremacy as their constant objective, the super-Powers are making feverish efforts to develop, manufacture and deploy qualitatively new and ever more deadly weapons. The militarization of outer space is becoming the hub of a new spiral in the arms race. The Star Wars space programs could turn outer space into a staging ground from which those aggressive Powers can prepare to strike at our planet and at mankind. This is a further escalation of their military rivalry and a new manifestation of their policy of force and of ever more intensive propagation of a war psychosis. They are trying to present war as inevitable in order to subjugate other peoples and countries and impose their will upon them. Each of the super-Powers claims that that rivalry restrains its adversary and thwarts its plans to breach the peace.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The legitimate aspirations and efforts of the progressive peoples and forces throughout the world that cherish freedom and independence are being opposed by the super-Powers, with their designs of expansion and world domination.* The current policy of the super-Powers is dominated by total military, economic and ideological mobilization; it relies more than ever before on the force of arms and nuclear blackmail so that they may achieve their unchanging hegemonist aims. The struggle for military superiority by the two super-Powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, has given an unprecedented impetus to their arms race. They have created enormous stockpiles of the most varied weapons, nuclear and conventional, chemical and bacteriological.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Mr. President, I should first of all like to convey to you the warm congratulations of the AlLanian delegation upon your assumption of the important post of the presidency of this lofty Assembly. Judging by recent events, we cannot but note that the current international situation is far from what the peoples desire and aspire to. While the United Nations proclaimed 1986 the International Year of Peace, at this very time international peace and security are under serious threat.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“In conclusion, allow roe to assure the Assembly that the Albanian delegation will spare no efforts to ensure that this fortieth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, which has before it many important problems for discussion, will face them with realism and in the interests of the peoples.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“It will proceed on the course which it has followed hitherto, a course which has secured its freedom and independence, the defense of socialism, and its good name in the world." We are confident that the course of socialist Albania and the Albanian people is in harmony with and conforms to the interests of peoples who fight for national liberation, social justice and democracy, for peace and genuine international security. Although we are living in a troubled world, full of contradictions and confrontations, tensions and conflicts, we look into the future with confidence. It has always been our belief that, through the struggle of the peoples and the efforts of democratic and peace-loving countries, the hand of the imperialist warmongers can be stayed and progress promoted.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“In the future, too, we shall extend our collaboration with neighboring countries and other states on the basis of the recognized principles which govern relations among sovereign States. Comrade Ramiz Alia, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labor Party and President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly, has said: "Our policy towards our neighbors, as towards all the other States, is a consistent, principled policy. Those who dream about and expect changes in our course, who interpret the normal political and diplomatic activity of our independent and sovereign State as the 'opening up' of Albania, as a 'tendency' to rapprochement with one side or the other, do so in vain. Albania neither 'opens up' nor 'closes up'.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Experience is convincingly proving the need for peoples and countries to exercise their sovereign rights over their national wealth. In the four decades of its free and independent development, socialist Albania has advanced with sure steps towards all-round progress and the improvement of the well-being of its people. We are confident that a better future lies aheacJ, for it is based on solid foundations. The experience of socialist Albania has refuted the capitalist outlook that no State can go forward on its own. Our implementation of the principle of self-reliance in no way precludes international collaboration. On the contrary, we have been and are for the development of normal trade, without discrimination, based on mutual benefit. We are also in favor of useful cultural, scientific and other exchanges.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The 10 years that have elapsed since the first special session of the United Nations General Assembly on economic problems have witnessed countless meetings and conferences within the framework of the United Nations and outside it, at which the developing countries have asked for more equitable international economic relations. It is precisely during this period that the industrialized Powers have totally disregarded the demands of the developing countries and have stepped up their exploitation, making those countries more economically dependent. A typical manifestation of this grave situation lies in the foreign debts of those countries which, from about $152 billion 10 years ago, today amount to the unprecedented sum of $1,000 billion.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The peoples of the world, especially those of Africa, Latin America and Asia, are more and more feeling the heavy burden of the crisis and the exploitation of monopolies and transnational corporations which have in our day replaced the armies of old time colonialists. The colossal loans, which represent a new strategy of the imperialist Powers for the subjugation of countries and peoples, have suffocated the economies of many States and brought them to the verge of total bankruptcy. The industrialized imperialist Powers are using their technological and scientific monopoly as a tool of pressure in order to have the peoples of the developing countries remain backward forever and to intensify their neo-colonial exploitation.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“But we are confident that toe terror and the diabolical maneuverer on the part of the racist regime of South Africa will never be able to put down the just struggle of the Azanian people, nor that of the Namibian people for freedom and national independence. The peoples and countries of Africa have never reconciled themselves to this situation. The Albanian people and Government, who nurture profound feelings of sympathy and friendship for the African peoples, will continue to give unreserved support to their just struggle against imperialist exploitation and oppression, racism and apartheid.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“South Africa, the bridgehead of imperialism on this continent, where the savage fascist regime of apartheid rules, not only oppresses the Azanian people with fire and steel, but also behaves arrogantly and carries out continuous provocations and aggressions against the surrounding African States. The recent events in South Africa, where the racist regime of Pretoria has perpetrated barbarous massacres, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and imprisoning thousands of others from the black population have aroused profound anger and indignation among honest people all over the world.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Today the countries and peoples of Africa, which have long experience in the struggle against colonialism, are encountering the interference and trickery of neo-colonialism and the rivalry of the two super-Powers which are striving to dominate Africa. They will not allow the African peoples to heal in peace the grave wounds inherited from centuries of colonial exploitation, but incite conflicts and bloody wars among different African peoples and States who in fact do not have opposing interests but, on the contrary, have a common bond in the struggle against neo-colonialism and racism.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“In Central America, the valiant people of Nicaragua is facing an undeclared war on the part of the United States. In Afghanistan, the Afghan patriots continue their armed resistance aimed at driving out the Soviet occupiers. In South-East Asia, the imperialist Powers will not leave the people of Kampuchea in peace to build a free and independent life. The lawful Government of the People's Republic of Kampuchea is unjustly denied the place in the United Nations to which it is entitled. The Albanian Government supports the just demand of the Korean people for the achievement of its national aspiration for the independent reunification of the homeland without any outside interference.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The Government of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, consistent in its position, will continue in the future too to give powerful support to the heroic Palestinian people in its struggle to regain its plundered homeland, as well as to all the brother Arab peoples in their struggle to drive the Israeli aggressors from their occupied lands. The war between Iran and Iraq, which has already lasted five years, must be ended. That would not only be in the interest of the friendly peoples of those two neighbor countries, but would serve the struggle of the peoples of the Gulf and of the region as a whole against the imperialist Powers. It is hard to find a single region in the world today which is not experiencing interference by one or both of the super-Powers.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The intrigues and plots of imperialism, social-imperialism and Zionism in that region have led to a fratricidal war, with extremely grave consequences. We have always believed and now we are convinced that the Arab peoples, with which we are linked by an ancient tradition of friendship, which are known throughout the world as the founders of illustrious civilizations, and which have withstood savage hordes and invasions during their thousand-year history, will be able to demonstrate the power of unity and stay the criminal hand of imperialism and Zionism.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“It will not permit any harm to its neighbors or to the interests of peace and security in the region to originate in its territory. The imperialist Powers have turned the Middle East into a region of ceaseless explosions, which have often threatened world peace. For several decades now the two super-Powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, have been keeping the fires of war burning, sometimes fanning them, at other times letting them die down. It is clear that they want to keep this sensitive region in a state of permanent tension as each strives to hold a dominant position. The tragedy of the suffering Palestinian people has worsened. In Lebanon, Israel continues to sow death and destruction among the innocent people of that country.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“National resentments and chauvinistic passions are being stirred up and this creates tensions. It is our belief that the Balkan peoples will not allow the region to be turned once again into a powder keg. They are capable of grasping the situation and of deciding in full sovereignty on the relations between them without falling victim to the intrigues of the imperialists, which would be to the detriment of the interests of each and every people of the peninsula. As for Albania, it will continue as before to pursue a policy of good-neighborliness. As a result of that policy, and through good will and common efforts, friendly relations have been established between our country and Greece, Turkey and Italy. Albania will continue to be a factor for peace and stability in the region.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Today the peoples of Europe see clearly that the super-Powers have further pursued their policy of putting the old continent under the shadow of their nuclear missiles and their atomic umbrellas, and that they are behaving in their respective spheres of influence like real overlords. Indeed, even matters of national defense are no longer within the sovereignty of the individual countries concerned. It is obvious that while the military-political blocs of the super-Powers -the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Treaty - exist, there can be no question of genuine security and co-operation in Europe, despite the marathon conferences and meetings held and the fine words spoken. Nor is the situation in the Balkans tranquil; new negative factors are making it even more complicated.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Yet, 10 years after Helsinki, Europe is more insecure than ever. This is to be seen also in new developments, in which the focal points of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union are shifting from the periphery to the zones where the borders of the military blocs meet. The euphoria of a decade ago has died away, to be replaced by mutual accusations of non-implementation and violation of commitments undertaken. Albania did well not to attend a conference which, as it was manipulated by the super-Powers, was doomed to failure. Time has shown that we were right.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Quite apart from anything else, these mean that the role which can and must be played by the Members of the United Nations is being disregarded and that the United Nations is being ignored. The fate of international peace and security cannot be left solely in the hands of those who want to dominate the world. In the present circumstances, the preservation and strengthening of peace demands the forceful denunciation of the policy of aggression and war, oppression and exploitation, and for the rejection of super-Power demagogy, which has spread a fog designed to cloud and distort the true picture and obscure future prospects. A few months ago occurred the tenth anniversary of the signature of the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference on so-called security and co-operation in Europe.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Both in the East and in the West a great fuss is at present being made about the value and importance of the impending talks between the super—Powers. It is said that the future of peace and of mankind will depend on the agreements reached between them. The United States and the Soviet Union may well sit down and talk together, but the facts thus far have shown that the most they can agree on is making deals, particularly at the expense of the peoples. It is no accident that many of the agreements they reach are kept secret not only from the peoples but even from their allies. The Albanian delegation believes that it is very dangerous to harbor any over-optimism or illusion that the problems weighing upon mankind will be solved by talks and agreements between the super-Powers.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“At one time it was the neutron bomb, then the latest nuclear missiles, and now they want to suspend a sword of Damocles above our planet in outer space, thus making mankind a kind of hostage. Thus, they hope that the threat of star wars will cause the peoples to forget that hundreds and thousands of missiles armed with nuclear warheads have been deployed throughout the world and are capable of destroying the earth in a far more barbarous fashion than are space weapons. They also want the threat of star wars to cloud the vision of the peoples so that they will not see Grenada or Afghanistan, not think about Lebanon or the fate of the Palestinian people, and forget Hiroshima and Viet Nam for ever.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The skies have been filled with their spy aircraft and satellites and the seas and oceans with their fleets and warships, all of which threatens the peoples and peace. Under the pretext that the balance of power has been upset and must be restored they attempt to justify the build-up of their war arsenals with the most sophisticated weapons and to make preparations for the so-called star wars. We do not wish to minimize the danger posed by the emplacement of weapons in orbiting space stations and the extension of the arms race into outer space, and we cannot but point out that by these means the super-Powers are trying to keep the world and its peoples in a state of constant tension and anxiety about the new weapons they are making.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Hence, they do not fail to seek and to find temporary solutions through a so-called dialog directed towards what has been termed "competitive coexistence" or "controlled rivalry." But this cannot be regarded as real security. We need only recall that during most of the post-war period many countries and peoples had to endure again the experience of war, devastation and destruction. Others are still living through the anguish of war or of famine and an uncertain future. The hegemonist policies and militarist course of the super-Powers are leading mankind towards a new world war. The war budgets of the United States and the Soviet Union have today reached astronomical figures. Military bases and nuclear weapons have been placed in every corner of the earth.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“It is true that in these 40 years the world has not been engulfed in a global conflagration, but this is no great cause for satisfaction, for the absence of world war cannot be identified with the existence of genuine peace. We cannot forget the fact that during this post-war period the world has seen more than 100 local conflicts and wars, which, in terms of the total number of weapons used and the human losses incurred, stand comparison with the Second World War. It is true that the super—Powers have up to now avoided a direct conflict between them. This has come about not because they wish to spare the peoples but because they fear the catastrophic consequences that such a conflict might have, above all for themselves.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“I avail myself of this opportunity to express to the General Assembly of the United Nations, on behalf of the Albanian Government and people, our sincere gratitude for the homage it paid to the memory of Enver Hoxha, the leader of the Albanian people, at its plenary meeting on 12 April of this year. For years on end, much has been said inside and outside the United Nations about problems which are of concern to mankind: the rights of peoples to self-determination, the problems of safeguarding peace and opposing war, disarmament, and establishment of equitable international economic relations. The concern of peoples about these matters is as great as it is well founded.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Leading our party and people for nearly half a century, he rendered Albania services that make him the greatest and most outstanding figure in the history of the Albanian nation. Enver Hoxha was an indomitable fighter against all forces of regression and an ardent supporter of the struggle of peoples for national liberation, social progress and socialism. Hence for us he will forever remain a hero, a teacher and a symbol of the struggle for the conquest and defense of freedom and independence and the construction of a new life. That is why our party and people are determined always to follow Enver Hoxha's road, because it is the road of progress, freedom and genuine independence for our homeland.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Both our principled and independent foreign policy and the just and resolute stands taken by the Socialist People's Republic of Albania in the United Nations are all indissolubly linked with the name and work of the architect of socialist Albania, the outstanding and immortal leader of the Albanian people. Comrade Enver Hoxha. Under his leadership, the Albanian people fought valiantly against the fascist beast and liberated the country in 1944. They embarked on the road of socialism, and in four decades turned Albania from a semi-feudal country, the most backward in Europe, into a developed industrial country with an advanced agriculture and a flourishing education and culture.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“By expressing its views openly and without reservations, whether or not those views were to the liking of one or the other super-Power, Albania has made a modest contribution to the efforts of the United Nations to fulfill the mission entrusted to it by the Charter. As in the past, the Government of Albania will continue in the future to be an active Member of the United Nations. Consistent in its resolute stand of opposing the super-Powers' policy, Albania will collaborate with the democratic and freedom-loving countries in efforts to safeguard peace and international security and to develop just and fruitful relations among States on the basis of equality and mutual interest.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Throughout these 30 years as a United Nations Member, Albania has not failed to make its modest contribution to the cause of freedom for the peoples, peace and international security. We have consistently upheld the view that within and without the United Nations, in international relations, all States - large or small - should be equal. Together with other democratic and peace-loving forces, socialist Albania has opposed the efforts of the super-Powers to manipulate the United Nations and to turn it into an instrument of imperialist policy. Albania has always taken a responsible stand towards this world Organization and has spoken up here with its own voice alone.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“They have fabricated and put into effect various theories, such as those of interdependence and limited sovereignty, which in reality mean dependence and subjugation. They have responded to legitimate demands for disarmament with a frenzied arms race accompanied by such fraudulent slogans as arms control and the preservation of the balance of power. It is common knowledge that the United Nations was created as a universal organization of sovereign and peace-loving countries and peoples, which the Albanian people - who were among the first active participants of the anti-fascist front - warmly welcomed, immediately applying for membership - a lawful right that was denied them for 10 years as a result of the discriminatory policy of the imperialist Powers and, in the first instance, of the United States.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Countless resolutions on very important problems pertaining to the safeguarding of peace and international security have been adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council but have remained mere dead letters in the United Nations archives. The right of veto has been flagrantly abused and has therefore today become synonymous with arbitrary action and injustice. Indeed, during these four decades, the United Nations flag has been used to cover up acts of imperialist intervention and aggression, as in Korea, the Congo and the Middle East, to name only a few examples. By both their policy and actions, the super-Powers have trampled underfoot the principles of liberty and justice sanctioned in the Charter.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“But at this anniversary session of the United Nations, which also offers an opportunity to reflect on the Organization's role and functioning, the delegation of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania is compelled to point out that the period since the Organization's foundation, as well as the existing situation, have shown that the United Nations has not justified the people's expectations, in accordance with the obligations stipulated by the Charter. This is because the imperialist Powers have tried to manipulate and use the United Nations as an instrument to justify their policy of war and aggression.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Even in the heat of battle during the Second World War, when the forces of the anti-fascist coalition of peoples were fighting to overcome the Nazi fascist hordes, the foundations of the United Nations were being laid. The peoples of the world who paid with their blood for the war prepared by the imperialist Powers aspired to build a better and more just world on the ruins left by the war. They hoped that the United Nations would also play an important role in this endeavor. From the very first lines of its constitutive act, the United Nations proclaimed as its fundamental purpose! the preservation of international peace and security, the liberation of mankind from the horrors of war and the development of friendly relations among nations on the basis of mutual respect.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“First of all, I should like to congratulate Mr. Jaime de Pinies on behalf of my delegation for his election to the presidency of the fortieth session of the General Assembly. We wish him every success in carrying out his important duties. I wish to extend to the people and Government of Mexico the deep sympathy of the Government and people of Albania and to express our feelings of solidarity and sympathy for the losses caused by the earthquakes which have struck that country. This year, the General Assembly is meeting at a significant time for the United Nations - that of the fortieth anniversary of the Organization's founding.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Albania is a small country, but in spite of this, it has the same right as all the other States Members of the United Nations to express its views openly and unhesitatingly, convinced that in this manner it best serves its highest national interests, the cause of peoples and international security.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Our State pursues a foreign policy of friendship with all peace-loving countries; it is a completely independent policy, for it is not conditioned by political or military pacts or by exclusive economic organizations. We are in favour of commercial, cultural and scientific exchanges with other countries based on mutual advantage and free of all discrimination and prejudice. Chauvinism and the encouragement of hatred and animosity among peoples are alien to us. Each people and nation, whether large or small, has the absolute right to defend and affirm its national identity. 178.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The all-round development of the country, based on self-reliance, the building up of industry founded on its own domestic resources and of agriculture so that the country is self-sufficient in foodstuffs, the major successes achieved in the fields of education, culture and science, and the training of a considerable number of workers at the high and middle levels have guaranteed uninterrupted economic and cultural development and a steady improvement in the standard of living of the working people. 176. The major changes brought about in Albania in these 40 years of the people's power are clear evidence of the superiority of the socialist system. 177.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Our people have accomplished more in these four decades than in all the preceding centuries because, under the leadership of the Albanian Labour Party, with Comrade Enver Hoxha at its head, and thanks to their own hard work and stubborn efforts, they have emerged out of the darkness into light and have made great socialist changes in all fields. 175.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The strength and omnipotence of the superpowers should never be seen as definitive. The temporary strength of aggressors has always been based on the fear, retreat and submission of others. History has convincingly demonstrated that in the face of the strength of peoples determined to fight in defence of their independence, peace and freedom, the super-Powers are weak and powerless. 174. This year, the Albanian people will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of their homeland and the triumph of their people's revolution.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The peoples of South-East Asia, who have for decades fought for freedom and national independence, continue to be the object of intrigues, interference and pressures on the part of the imperialist Powers, which are trying to prevent them from deciding their own destiny. 170. The Government of the People's Republic of Kampuchea must occupy its rightful place in the United Nations. 171. At a time when the international situation is steadily worsening and is fraught with serious threats to peace and freedom, the peoples must be more vigilant than ever before. 172. The difficult situations which have been and continue to be created in the world make it necessary for States Members of the United Nations to see things as they are, freeing themselves of any feeling of inferiority or fatalism. 173.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“It is quite clear that, apart from the pressure it seeks to put on its European allies, that "initiative" does not go beyond the limits of the military and economic rivalry between the superpowers that has caused them to put their battle fleets in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and thus to create political and military groupings in Asia and the Pacific in order to further their regional and worldwide strategic aims. 168. The Albanian people and Government support the just demand of the Korean people for the withdrawal of United States troops from South Korea and the independent reunification of their country. 169.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The situation in that unstable region is made even more complex because Soviet social-imperialism is very cunningly trying to exploit the struggle of those peoples against United States oppression and domination in order to increase its influence in that region. 166. This is a living expression of the policy that the two super-Powers pursue in order to challenge one another in the regions that they consider to be their spheres of influence. This is the aim of the "differentiated policy" of the United States towards Eastern Europe and the attempts of the Soviet Union to arrive at a separate "detente" with Western Europe. 167. The United States talks more and more about the so-called "Pacific initiative", under which the attention of United States policy would be focused more on that region.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“For its part, the Albanian people has always firmly supported and will continue to support the struggle of the Namibian and other African peoples to liquidate the remnants of colonialism and racism and the intrigues and interference of the imperialist Powers, especially the super-Powers, in their continent. 164. The situation in Central America continues to be tense and fraught with serious threats to the freedom and independence of the peoples of that region and of Latin America. The invasion of Grenada and the pressures, threats and acts of direct provocation against Nicaragua clearly attest to the intensification of interference and the unchanging aggressive policy of United States imperialism on that continent. 165.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“While the Fascist regime of South Africa continues to promote racial violence and maintain the abhorrent system of apartheid to occupy Namibia and to threaten the freedom and independence of neighbouring countries, the United States and other imperialist Powers strive to rehabilitate that regime in Africa and in the international community, which long ago branded it as unlawful. 163. The African peoples, especially those of southern Africa, should have no illusions about the ambitions and policy of the Pretoria regime, that bulwark of racism and colonialism on the African continent. They will not yield before the force of arms, pressures and diabolical tactics.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“That struggle demonstrates once again that a people, however small in number, is invincible when fighting for a just cause. 161. The African continent remains the object of imperialist ambitions, especially of the two superpowers, which, in order to attain their strategic objectives, continue to hatch plots against the African peoples, stir up old quarrels and feuds which they themselves have left among those peoples like unexploded mines, kindle local conflagrations and conflicts in order to facilitate their penetration still deeper into the continent and continue their neo- colonialist exploitation of those peoples. 162.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The laying of mines in the Red Sea and the haste of the super-Powers and certain other countries to dispatch their warships and helicopters there in order allegedly to clear the mines are part of the pretext they have long sought to build up their military presence there and to maintain a permanently tense situation in that region. The present scenario in the Red Sea greatly resembles and, indeed, appears to be a variation of the scenario prefacing the intervention of the multinational force in Lebanon, and there must be a connection between them. 160. The Soviet social-imperialist aggressors have kept Afghanistan occupied for nearly five years now but have not managed to subdue the struggle of the freedom-loving Afghan people.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The settlement of disagreements between Iran and Iraq through negotiations would deal a powerful blow to the superpowers and to all those who want to warm their hands in the fires kindled in the Middle East. The super-Powers want the war to continue, because it serves their plans for military intervention in the Persian Gulf countries and for a worsening of the Middle East crisis. We hope that these two friendly peoples and countries will soon find a common language to put an end to bloodshed, as that is in their own interest and in that of the struggle of the peoples of the region. 159.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“In his recently published book, Reflections on the Middle East, the leader of the Albanian people, Comrade Enver Hoxha wrote: "the crisis in the Middle East can never be solved until the martyred Palestinian people regain their homeland stolen from them by the Israeli aggressors, and this will be achieved only when the political, economic and military influence of the super-Powers and the other imperialist Powers has been dealt powerful blows ... by all the Arab peoples .... Only resolute, uncompromising struggle, based on genuine Arab unity, will lead them to victory, to true independence and freedom 158. The war between Iraq and Iran, which has been continuing for nearly four years now, has caused the peoples of those two countries incalculable human and material losses. We hold that that war must be brought to an end.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)