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“We have been witnessing of late a further intensification of the common activity of the United States and the Soviet Union in the so-called field of disarmament, and a great effort on their part to give the impression that they have seriously undertaken this task. All the hullabaloo on the disarmament question is nothing but a smoke-screen to conceal their true designs and to cover up their unbridled arms race.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“True peace and security in Europe will be achieved only by the concerted efforts of all the peace-loving peoples and countries of Europe, which must themselves take over this cause, strengthen their national independence and their defensive capabilities, oppose unhesitatingly any policy of hegemony and any aggressive activity of the military blocs on their continent and in the neighboring areas, fight to the end for the liquidation of military bases and the withdrawal of foreign troops from their territories, while closely linking the fight for their own security to that of all the peoples of the world. 148.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“But we believe that sooner or later these hopes will be dashed, for the two super-Powers will make no concession likely to affect their important mutual interests. All the strings of the conference are in their hands. That is the reason for the wariness and hesitation of various countries about the convening of that conference. 147. The People's Republic of Albania is opposed to that kind of "European security".”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“It would create and foster nefarious illusions harmful to the effective defense of the freedom and independence of the European peoples. 145. The convening of a conference on European security and preparations for its organization are a part of the Soviet-American collusion that was fully shaped during the most recent talks between the two super-Powers. These preparatory activities and any decisions that might emerge from the conference will bear the tint and seal of the attempts at hegemony of the two super-Powers. 146. We should like to stress that, in the atmosphere of delusion with which the two super-Powers have surrounded the preparations for the conference, some countries which will supposedly take part in it seem to nourish the hope that it will bring them political, economic and other advantages.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“To establish European security as proposed and formulated by Moscow and Washington would be tantamount to sanctioning the imperialist interests of the United States and the Soviet Union in Europe, leaving them full leeway to act militarily against peace-loving peoples and nations in other parts of the world. In these conditions, we consider that support for initiatives such as the convening of a conference on European security would facilitate the task of the two super-Powers in their efforts to establish their domination in Europe. A conference organized and manipulated by the American imperialists and the Soviet social imperialists would bring nothing but words and demagoguery and contribute nothing good to European peace and security.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The "tranquility" they promise to create in Europe means security on their flanks so that they can direct the spearhead of their aggressive policy towards the East, especially towards the People's Republic of China. 144. Before speaking of European security, we must clarify this question. Against whom must the peoples of Europe protect themselves, and what are the forces which represent an actual and possible danger? The true and actual danger for Europe at present and in the future comes from the two super-Powers and the German revenge- seekers, and it is against them that the peoples of Europe must be protected. There has never been, and cannot be, any abstract theoretical security. Security is always concrete. It tends to protect against a well-determined threat.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We think that the implementation of these resolute measures would constitute an important contribution to easing tension and eliminating the existing danger in the Mediterranean, tend to strengthen the national sovereignty of the Mediterranean countries, and also be a positive factor for the consolidation of true peace and security in Europe. 143. That peace and security which the United States and the Soviet Union advocate for Europe is a peace and security which they need in order to consolidate their zones of influence, to preserve their pacts and their military bases and to guarantee the stationing of their troops on the territories of European countries.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Let the Mediterranean countries on whose territories there are military bases declare that they will liquidate them; let the other Mediterranean countries proclaim that they will not tolerate the establishment of any new foreign military bases on their territories; let the Mediterranean countries which offer to American and Soviet war fleets any facilities and the temporary use of their ports for revictualling, repairs or as a resting place undertake not to assist these fleets in any way; let the Mediterranean countries which now receive visits from these fleets no longer accept them in the future. 142.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“They will unfailingly achieve their noble aspirations and bring to heel these new aspirants to the dominion of the seas. 141. The People's Republic of Albania, which expelled the Soviet social-imperialists from its waters when they tried to establish themselves on its shores and become the masters of the country, welcomes and supports the just positions of the peace-loving Mediterranean countries and their legitimate efforts to defend their independence and national sovereignty and free this basin from any policy of hegemony. As in the past, Albania will continue to contribute to efforts in this direction, it considers that the only effective way for the Mediterranean peoples to achieve their aspirations and their will is to take initiatives and undertake energetic and concrete actions.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Why do they cruise from one end of this sea to the other, aiming their guns at the peaceful shores of the Mediterranean countries and bringing with them the threat of war? 140. The peoples of these countries do not need the defense or the mendacious friendship of American and Soviet imperialists. They know full well the meaning of the mission of these fleets and of the "gunboat diplomacy" of the imperialist Powers in this zone. The fact is that the Mediterranean peoples are showing an ever-increasing opposition to the stationing of American and Soviet warships and troops in this zone and to foreign military bases on their shores, and their struggle to turn the Mediterranean into a zone of peace and co-operation is intensifying.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We remain faithful also to the viewpoint according to which peace in the world is one and indivisible. There cannot be peace in one part of the world as long as a war of aggression is being waged in another. True peace and security in Europe are inconceivable as long as quite near Europe in the Middle East open aggression and unprecedented imperialist intervention continue; as long as, in the south of the continent in the Mediterranean basin, aggression is increasing by dint of the presence of the aggressive fleets of the United States and the Soviet Union and their military naval bases. 139. In these circumstances, the Albanian delegation would raise the following questions. Why have these aggressive fleets come to the Mediterranean from a distance of thousands of miles without being invited by anyone?”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We are of the view that it would be unrealistic to speak of the possibilities of achieving European security when in Europe the United States and the Soviet Union pursue a policy of hegemony and maintain the aggressive military blocs of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, when on the territories of European countries, they have built up a whole network of military bases, where they maintain a large number of troops and organize successive military maneuvers; when Czechoslovakia is still occupied and when the theory of "limited sovereignty" is being applied in the countries of Eastern Europe; and when closed European economic groupings, in Eastern and Western Europe, practice discrimination in the field of trade and have become an obstacle to the development of equal co-operation among European countries. 138.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“On the contrary, the aforementioned agreements have given rise to new tensions, and to the old contradictions, in the East as in the West, others have been added. The United States, the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany have redoubled their efforts to acquire dominating positions and new privileges to the detriment of other sovereign European countries. 137.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“But the peace-loving peoples and countries reject these hegemonic and ultra-chauvinistic preachings and conceptions and firmly oppose the great-Power policy which the United States and the Soviet Union are attempting to impose upon them right here in the United Nations. 135. Now, both the two great imperialist Powers and some others claim that the situation in Europe has undergone an important positive development and that conditions have been created for achieving complete and general security on that continent. To convince us of that, we are being reminded, among other things, of the Bonn-Moscow and Bonn-Warsaw Treaties, the Agreement on Berlin and so on. 136. This whole picture does not reflect reality. In fact, nothing has changed in Europe.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Through their policy of hegemony, the American and Soviet imperialists, not content with attempting to create in others a psychosis of fear and of submission to their potential, strength, are also trying openly to deprive peace-loving countries of the possibility of taking part in the solution of problems of concern and interest to the whole world, and to induce these countries to allow the two great Powers to decide behind their backs, in particular behind the backs of the smallest, even questions of direct concern to them. In short, they claim that peoples should abandon their supreme, sovereign rights to the "two great Powers".”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“It has become the practice for the two super-Powers to discuss important international problems directly between themselves and to decide them in accordance with their hegemonic interests without consulting or informing anyone not even their closest allies. Have not their Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and their negotiations on other delicate problems revealed this truth? Nobody claims to know all that is being hatched during these ultra-secret negotiations, but everybody knows full well that not only is a common armaments policy determined in these talks but also a common line and attitude towards others, in all fields and on all matters. 134.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“At the present time, both the United States and the Soviet Union are trying to impose the idea that the two super-Powers would be incontrovertible guarantors of peace in the world and arbiters without appeal in international relations, that peoples should sacrifice their national interests for the maintenance of the balance between the two great Powers, upon which the balance of our planet is in turn predicated. These two Powers claim that the destinies of the world, of peace and of international security entirely depend upon them and upon the development of their reciprocal relations and that the improvement or the deterioration of the climate of Soviet-American relations conditions the climate of the whole globe and so on.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“During these talks decisions were taken which impinge upon the vital interests of the peoples of the world. Zones of influence have been confirmed and delimited. Important bargaining has taken place, and this to the prejudice of Viet-Nam, the Arab countries, the European countries and so on. Matters must be judged on the basis of facts, and the facts bear witness to the intensification of the aggressive global strategy of these two super-Powers, which is now carried out in the open, the preparation of new plans and dangerous conspiracies against the peoples and peace in the world. 133.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“But it is also true that peoples, especially small peoples, would run grave risks if they nourished the hope that one of the two great imperialist Powers could take them under its protection. That "protection" thus offered is in fact nothing but the integration of these peoples into the zones of influence of these two super-Powers, their domination and their exploitation by the latter. 131. The representatives of the two super-Powers present here have tried to convince us that the talks held between them and the agreements concluded during this year rendered a great service to the world and to the whole of mankind, and they presented the situation as if Member States should now feel more reassured than in the past, and so forth. This is nothing but a fiction, and we firmly reject it. 132.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Of course, as was said by the leader of the Albanian people, Enver Hoxha: "It would be inconceivable and unrealistic to see in the Soviet-American alliance only the rapprochement and co-operation of the two super-Powers, their common actions and interests. In view of their imperialist character, the United States and the revisionist Soviet Union are also torn asunder by conflicts, rivalries and deep contradictions, which prevent them from acting always in harmony and in complete unity. The existence and aggravation of these contradictions are inherent in the very foundation of that alliance, the capitalist-socialist system of the two countries, and their imperialist designs. Preparing for war, the two parties also plan to devour one another." 130.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Those two Powers are in competition and rivalry for the division of the world into zones of influence and the domination of the world. 128. All Member States have witnessed the maneuvers of the two super-Powers to oppose, by every means, the efforts of peace-loving peoples and countries striving to strengthen and defend their independence and national sovereignty. But no publicity, no pacifist demeanor, no so-called "great acts" for the so-called "safeguard of peace" and "progress of mankind" can mask their well-known imperialist policy and the true designs they pursue separately or in common. We now see their open aggressiveness, their arrogance; everywhere we see their thirst for absolute power over the whole world. 129.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The American aggression in VietNam and the Israeli imperialist aggression in the Middle East go on. Many important problems of our time remain pending. The two great imperialist Powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, have launched a new and general attack against the interests of sovereign peoples and States. The world continues to live in the fear of the threat and the danger coming from those two powers. 127. Today, everyone can easily understand that the United States and the Soviet Union have intensified and perfected their policy of interference and hegemony and have raised to a high level the co-ordination of their concrete activities against the freedom and independence of peoples.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“First, may I, Mr. President, express to you the congratulations of the Albanian delegation on your election as President of this session of the General Assembly. 125. The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania, like most peace-loving Member States, would have wished to see during the period since the last session of the General Assembly of the United Nations important steps taken towards the creation of a sound and stable international situation, towards the restoration and respect of the sovereign rights of peoples. But the real state of affairs does not allow us to conclude that this wish has been fulfilled. 126. In international relations we observe new tensions caused by the violation of democratic principles and norms which govern relations among States.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania, guided as ever by the just policy of principle of its Government, will make every effort at this session too, side by side with other peace-loving States, to contribute to the defense of the great cause of the peoples and of peace.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The Albanian people hails the important measures recently taken by Chile, Peru and other Latin American countries to defend their sovereignty, territorial integrity and natural resources, thus courageously resisting the political and economic aggression of United States imperialism. 167. The Albanian people, under the guidance of the Albanian Worker's Party, headed by our beloved leader, Comrade Enver Hoxha, is working in a spirit of self-sacrifice to develop and continuously strengthen our homeland; we have won great success in all fields and are advancing with assurance towards new victories on the joyful road to socialism. 168.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“We resolutely condemn the aggressive acts by the imperialist Powers against various independent, progressive countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the interference in their domestic affairs and the coups d'etat organized against them, as well as the open support those Powers give to reactionary regimes in various continents and to the racist policy of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. We condemn the armed aggression against Guinea, unleash i ;y the Portuguese colonialists with the support of their N^TO partners, which failed pitifully before the resolute rebuff that the freedom-loving people of that country gave it.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The Albanian people has always had feelings of friendship towards the Greek people and we desire to develop our relations with Greece basing ourselves always on the well-known principles of equality, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, unconditional respect for frontiers, non-interference in domestic affairs, and mutual advantage. 166. The People's Republic of Albania will always stand side by side with freedom-loving peoples and will spare no effort powerfully to support their struggle to conquer and defend freedom and national independence, to put an end to colonial oppression and racial discrimination.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“It is in this spirit that we have improved our State relations with Yugoslavia and, irrespective of our irreducible ideological differences with the leadership of that country, we are in favor of constantly extending and deepening them, for our people and the peoples of Yugoslavia have been and are friends and this is in the interests of our peoples, We have established diplomatic relations with Greece. This was a just and reasonable act, compatible with the interests and aspirations of the two people, an act made possible by the just and consistent policy of the Albanian Government and the goodwill it has constantly demonstrated, as well as of the realistic approach of the present Greek Government.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“Guided by the policy of peace and international co-operation, the Government of the People's Republic of Albania has constantly striven to extend and develop its relations with all countries, irrespective of their political and social systems, cn the basis of the principles that govern relations among sovereign States, and in this context it has done everything possible to establish and improve relations with neighboring countries, in conformity with the good-neighbor policy.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“Thanks to this revolutionary policy and to the just attitudes it has maintained and maintains vis-a-vis the most important issues of our time, the People's Republic of Albania has secured a solid position in the international arena and represents a factor of peace and stability in the Balkans and in Europe. This has influenced world opinion in a manner favorable to the People's Republic of Albania as may also be seen in the fact that many States have recently established diplomatic relations with us. This testifies to the respect they have for our policy of principle. 165.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The People's Republic of Albania is a small country but one which consistently follow* an independent foreign policy and works with perseverance side by side with other peace-loving States to make its modest contribution to the positive development of world events. We have had many enemies and they are still numerous but the Albanian people has always confronted and will always confront them with courage, always maintaining inviolable the freedom and independence of the homeland and guaranteeing the victorious construction of socialism.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“As sincere friends of those peoples, we have the unshakable confidence that they will carry their just struggle to its end, that they will redouble their vigilance, that they will clear the way of obstacles and elements put at the service of foreigners who, through their work of domestic sabotage are creating breaches in the unity of the Arab peoples and countries, that they will strengthen and consolidate that unity, in the struggle against imperialist and revisionist intrigues. This is the only way they can face their Zionist aggressors, liberate the occupied lands, and achieve all their sacred aspirations. 164.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The Arab peoples are strong enough to destroy their plans and they will surely succeed in doing so, no matter how great their temporary difficulties may be. They will not accept a solution which would be contrary to their higher national interests. They know how to distinguish their real friends who sincerely assist them in their struggle from the false friends who offer them assistance only in order to tie their hands. 163. Peace and stability in the Middle East cannot be secure* through compromise and partial solutions engineered by the great imperialist Powers; it cannot be secured if the Israeli aggressors do not leave unconditionally all the Arab occupied territories. It can be secured only through the firm struggle,- of the .Arab peoples.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“161. There is reason to regard as particularly dangerous the plot to liquidate the Palestinian question and to destroy the liberation movement of the valiant Palestinian people which, through its armed struggle, has become a serious obstacle to the Israeli aggressors and the execution of the imperialist plans in the Middle East. It is a shameful role in the pursuit of this plot that continues to be played by the reactionary regime of King Hussein of Jordan through the intensification of the campaign of terror and bloody massacre against the Palestinian patriots, which is a grave challenge to the national conscience of all the Arab peoples. 162. But the enemies of the Arab peoples would do well not to build illusory dreams and not to nourish the hope that they can do whatever they see fit in the Middle East.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“But given the firm resistance of the Arab peoples to foreign aggression and interference, the two Powers do not hesitate to act in collusion and make compromises to the detriment of the sovereign rights of the Arab peoples, thus giving satisfaction, if only partially, to the annexation . claims of the Israeli aggressors. We now see United States and Soviet emissaries shuttling back and forth between their own countries and the countries of the Middle East, and we see how in Washington, as well as in Moscow and here in the corridors' of the United Nations, "peace" proposals are formulated and plots are hatched for a "partial solution", for "settlement of the problem by stages", while at the same time plans are being worked out to station American and Soviet troops in the vicinity of the Suez Canal under cover of "international guarantees".”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The United States and the revisionist Soviet Union have attempted from the outset, and are still attempting, to exploit to the maximum the situation created after the aggression of June 1967, with each of the two partners working for its own expansionist designs and the realization of its nec-colonialist aims in that region. Neither of these two great imperialist Powers wants to see a just and final solution to the problem of the Middle East. They are interested, rather, in maintaining a continuing state of tension, in encouraging the Israeli-Arab conflict, for this will make it easier for them to penetrate the countries of that area and extend their influence there. 160. It is clear that the Middle East region is today a sore spot where the hegemonic interests of the two great Powers clash.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“They are committing monstrous crimes against the Palestinian and other Arab peoples; they are seeking to impose their own terms from positions of strength; they continue to occupy large parts of the territory of Egypt, the Syrian Arab Republic and Jordan, and are employing the most barbarous means to strip them of their national identity, They now dare to proclaim openly their plans far annexing those territories, arrogantly declaring that they have no intention of "going back to the old frontiers". It is clear that they would not behave in this way if they were not supported by the ceaseless political, economic and military assistance of the United States of America, which incites and supports the grasping designs of Tel-Aviv and wishes to maintain Israel as an instrument in the service of its imperialist plans for the Middle East. 159.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The brave people of Viet-Nam, united in combat with the other peoples of Indo-China and enjoying the powerful support of the Chinese people and the solidarity of all the peoples of the world, will most certainly, in carrying through its armed struggle, win the final victory against the United States aggressors and their lackeys. There will be no genuine peace in Viet-Nam until the day when the last United States soldier is withdrawn. 158. Although more than four years have passed since the unleashing of the armed Zionist-imperialist aggression against the Arab countries, the situation in the Middle(East remains grave and fraught with dangers to the peace and security of that area. The Israeli Zionists are pursuing their policy of aggression and war.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“They make tremendous efforts to discredit, through every kind of slander and fiction, the comprehensive internationalist assistance that has been and will continue to be given, until their complete liberation, to the peoples of Indo-China by the People's Republic of China, the sincerest ally and most powerful support of those peoples. Their attitude to the reactionary coup d'etat in Cambodia and the United States aggression against that sovereign country has still further unmasked the Soviet revisionists and revealed them as false friends of the peoples of Indo-China. Their continued relations with the Lon Nol clique, a docile instrument of the United States of America, shows up all the falsity of their declarations claiming to support the struggle of the Indo-Chinese peoples, 157.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The United States imperialists will not willingly leave Indo-China; it is rather through their heroic struggle that the peoples of Indo-China will expel them. 156. The Soviet revisionists also bear part of the responsibility for the continuation of the situation in Viet-Nam and Indo«China by reason of their double game which actually assists the United States imperialists in their aggression. Sometimes openly, sometimes through demagogic processes, they carry on activities that undermine and sabotage the armed struggle of the Indo-Chinese peoples and undertake actions contrary to the aspirations of those peoples to national freedom and independence.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“Not having succeeded in bringing the Viet-Namese people md the other peoples of Indo-China to their knees by force of arms, and confronted with the failure of their plot to "Viet-Namize" the war, the United States of America continues further to intensify its double tactic. On the one hand, it trumpets its desire for peace; on the other hand, it pursues its aggressive activities and barbarous crimes. However > the attempts by the leaders of United States imperialism to create the impression that they want "peace" and that they are preparing to leave Indo-China cannot bend the iron will of the Viet-Namese people and the peoples of Laos and Cambodia to carry their armed struggle to total victory.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“Similarly, they have seen the collapse of the hopes they had placed in the tactic of "Viet-Namization" worked out in accordance with the Nixon Doctrine, a tactic that is in fact nothing but an escalation of the aggression throughout all of Indo-China, making use of the armies and puppet regimes of Saigon, Pnom Fenh, Vientiane, and so on. The efforts of the United States to pit the Indo-Chinese against the Indo-Chinese have met with a deserved rebuff from the peoples of Indo-China, who have raised their fighting unity and their armed struggle to an even higher level. 155.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The events unfolding in Viet-Nam and throughout Indo-China remain the clearest example of the profoundly aggressive nature of United States imperialism and prove that the United States is powerless to subjugate peoples fighting with weapons in hand for a just cause. The heroic Viet-Namese people in its armed struggle has inflicted on the United States of America the heaviest defeat in its history. Neither the escalation of the war in Viet-Nam nor the extension of armed aggression into Cambodia and Laos have eased the difficult situation in which the United States aggressors find themselves; in fact it has pushed them deeper into the impasse in which they find themselves in Indo-China.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The presence and the movements in the Mediterranean of these two aggressive fleets in their rivalry and their collaboration alike are a threat to the freedom; independence and sovereignty of the peoples and countries of that area, and are, furthermore, thoroughly illegal and unjustifiable, whatever pretexts and "arguments" the United States and the Soviet Union may use to justify them. The peace-loving peoples and countries of the Mediterranean area are rightly concerned at, and justifiably opposed to, the presence off their coasts or in their ports of the fleets of the two great imperialist Powers. The situation thus created requires that they be even more vigilant and that they act with greater firmness to oblige these fleets to quit the Mediterranean. 154.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“It is because it pursues the same objectives that the socio-imperialist Soviet war fleet has likewise made its appearance in the Mediterranean; for the Soviet Union, like the United States, to serve its own neo-colonialist interests, is seeking to secure military bases and establish itself for good in the Mediterranean basin and the Adriatic. It has now gone so far as to find a "historical-juridical" argument for the presence of its fleet in Mediterranean waters; its official propaganda does not hesitate openly to identify the present "interests" and "rights" of the Soviet Union in the Mediterranean with the imperialist aims of Tsarist Russia in the past. 153.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The Mediterranean peoples are fully aware that the United States warships, which for more than 20 years have been in the Mediterranean, thousands of miles from their own country, are a strike force in the service of United States plans for the establishment of its dominion in that part of the world, for bringing pressure to bear, for exercising blackmail and provocation, and for intervening, even by force of arms, in the domestic affairs of Mediterranean countries. The many aggressive activities and the very grave acts of war carried out by the American imperialist Sixth Fleet are still present in the memory of the Mediterranean peoples, particularly the brother Arab peoples who, in many instances, have been the direct victims. 152.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“It has given fresh impetus to co-operation between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany, which emerged even more clearly in the recent visit of Willy Brandt to the Crimea, where he was treated by the Soviet revisionist leadership as the representative of the main political power in Western Europe, with which the Soviet revisionists wish to harmonize their actions in order to achieve their plans for expansion and domination on the continent. 150. As representatives of a Mediterranean country, we cannot pass over in silence the situation created in the Mediterranean by the presence and intensified activity both of the United States Sixth Fleet and of units of the Soviet Navy, which behave there as arrogantly as if they were in their own territorial waters. 151.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The agreement on West Berlin in reality does not put an end to the anomalous situation which has existed for 26 years in the heartland of Europe; on the contrary, it prolongs it. It creates conditions for the annexation of West Berlin by the Federal Republic of Germany, encourages the annexationist designs of Bonn on the German Democratic Republic, and has not deigned to take it into -account as a sovereign State directly concerned in the question.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“It is the revanchist policy of the Federal Republic of Germany that has mainly profited by it. The Treaty has served to speed up deals on the question of West Berlin, in the process of which the Soviet revisionist leadership, it the interests of collaboration with the American imperialists and subsequent rapprochement with Bonn, has made important concessions culminating in the conclusion of a new imperialist agreement at the cost of the sovereign rights of the Democratic Republic of Germany and the strengthening of peace and the interests of the peoples of Europe,, which contributed their blood to the victory over nazism and have long awaited a just and final solution to this question. 149.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)
“The decisions and principles concerning peace, security and co-operation approved by any such conference would remain a dead-letter, The United States imperialists and the Soviet social-imperialists were scarcely concerned with the well-known principles of international law or the provisions of the United Nations Charter, any more than with other international, bilateral or multilateral agreements, when they unleashed their armed aggression against Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Czechoslovakia and other countries. 148. This year's events have further strengthened our conviction of the justice of my Government's estimation of the Moscow-Bonn Treaty and of the true intentions of the contracting parties. Contrary to the sensational promises of its signatories, the Treaty has brought nothing of benefit to the peoples of Europe.”
1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)