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“The people and Government of the People’s Republic of Albania reaffirm their strong support for the independent countries and for the peoples of South-East Asia that are struggling against imperialism. We call for the immediate cessation of all forms of United States intervention in this area. We protest against any attempt to use the United Nations, its organs or its name in connexion, with the countries of Indo-China. We consider that the only just way to peace in Indo-China and to the peaceful unification of Viet-Nam lies in the immediate withdrawal of the United States interventionist forces from this area, the strict application of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Indo-China and of the 1962 agreements on Laos, and the complete cessation of aggressive acts against peace-loving Cambodia.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“We vigorously denounce these tendentious allegations and dangerous plans. It is a well-known fact that the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, a most peace-loving country, has scrupulously respected the Geneva agreements on Indo-China and that it is another Power that has intervened in the civil war in Viet-Nam and Laos, has sent its armed forces and made war on the people of South Viet-Nam, and is bombing the Laotian people and provoking Cambodia. There is no doubt that the extension of the war to North Viet-Nam would only hasten the inevitable defeat of the aggressors and arouse even more violent indignation against them among the peoples of the entire world. 65.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“As you are aware, on 5 August 1964 it committed an unprovoked act of aggression in the Gulf of Tonkin and since then, even in the last few days, its military aircraft and warships have been continuing their provocation and committing real acts of war against the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam. Its false allegations that the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam is intervening in the domestic affairs of South Viet-Nam are as ridiculous as the statements made here by certain speakers who alleged that the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam is responsible for the events in Laos. These allegations come from one source only — Washington — and have only one purpose — to justify the intervention in South Viet-Nam and Laos, and to prepare world opinion for aggression against North Viet-Nam. 64.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Faced with the intrepid resistance of these people, who are united in a national liberation front and determined to die rather than give in, the foreign interventionists and their puppets in Saigon are rushing headlong to catastrophe and to total and inevitable defeat. The efforts to internationalize the conflict in South Viet-Nam by bringing the countries members of SEATO and of the United Nations into it have been in vain. Recently, there have been several events and official statements which show that the United States is intending to extend the war to North Viet-Nam.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“An extremely dangerous situation has been created in South-East Asia. For nearly twenty years South Korea has been under United States military occupation and, under cover of the United Nations flag, it has been transformed into a veritable concentration camp for the South Korean people and into a nuclear arsenal. 63. In complete disregard of the Charter, solemn agreements and of international law, the United States has intervened openly in the civil war in Laos, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cambodia pointed out to this Assembly; it is committing aggressive acts against Cambodia because that country is following an independent national policy; in South Viet-Nam, it has for several years been waging a barbarous war against the heroic people of South Viet-Nam, who are fighting for freedom, independence and self- determination.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Stevenson, the United States representative, stated, inter alia, that his country had made and was still making flights over Cuba for espionage purposes because it had been authorized to do so by the Organization of American States. That was tantamount to saying that the sovereignty of any country is at the mercy of a few resolutions passed by various regional organizations directed by Mr. Stevenson's Government. We consider this to be a very serious statement, a challenge to the national sovereignty of States, to international law and to the United Nations. 61. In reaffirming the complete solidarity of the people and Government of the People's Republic of Albania with their Cuban brothers, my delegation declares that the United Nations cannot remain indifferent to this attitude and to the aggressive activities against Cuba. 62.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Unfortunately, these principles are not respected by all Member States. Although the United States of America is one of the signatories and depositories of the United Nations Charter, it has systematically made the threat and use of force an instrument of its policy. 60. For instance, for nearly six years it has constantly been plotting and committing acts of aggression against Cuba, for the simple reason that the Cuban people have dared to carry out a revolution and to take the glorious path of socialism. As Mr. Guevara, the leader of the Cuban delegation, indicated the other day, with supporting evidence, fresh preparations for an invasion of Cuba are under way. In an attempt to justify the continued hostile activities against Cuba, Mr.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Our delegation feels that the Assembly should free itself from the present irregularities without further delay and tackle the important tasks that lie before it. 58. An objective consideration of the international situation compels us to admit that in several parts of the world, such as South-East Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, Europe and Cyprus, the Middle East and others, international peace and security are threatened, that the divided countries — Germany, Viet-Nam and Korea — are still constant sources of tension, that the arms race is being accelerated and that no big international problem has been solved. 59. The Charter places Member States under an obligation not to intervene in the domestic affairs of other countries and to refrain from the threat or use of force against other States.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“My Government has always firmly opposed the use of United Nations forces against peoples and has always maintained that all expenditure relating to these forces must be borne by the aggressors. Our position, which remains unchanged, is determined by a question of principle, namely, that only action taken in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the Charter and its relevant provisions can create obligations for Member States. 56. States which are rightly refusing to pay for these forces cannot be forced to do so by a distorted interpretation of Article 19 of the Charter; such an interpretation can only serve the interests of those who wish to undermine the United Nations. The present crisis is an eloquent proof of this. 57.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“My delegation is convinced that Member States like our own, to which the cause of national sovereignty and the principles of the Charter are dear, will not be made the cat's-paw of such a policy, that they will make concerted efforts to end the present impossible situation and to put the General Assembly and the whole Organization back onto the right path. 55. The Government of the People's Republic of Albania has on many occasions clearly stated its attitude to the United Nations forces and to the expenditure relating to their maintenance. It is common knowledge that these forces were established and have been used for purposes which were diametrically opposed to those of the Charter and to the sovereign rights of peoples. I need only mention the case of Korea and of the Congo.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“That country, with the direct or indirect support of some other Member States, has always tried, and is still trying, to use the United Nations as a convenient instrument for its own policy, which is contrary to the interests of the world's peoples and of peace. Fearing that its hold on the United Nations might be weakened by the admission of a large number of recently liberated countries, and with other shameful designs in mind, the United States is again trying to impose its own policy on the Organization under cover of a financial crisis which it has created and by the use of blackmail.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania associates itself with the large number of delegations which find such a state of affairs unacceptable. The equality and sovereignty of Member States are the very foundations of our Organization. We have come here from all over the world to make our countries' contribution to the work of peace which, according to the Charter, is the primary purpose of our Organization, and not to stand by powerless while the United Nations disintegrates. 54. We must recognize that the United Nations has reached the present deadlock because of the wrong practices, contrary to the Charter, which have been forced upon it more than once in the past by the United States of America.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The General Assembly has met without knowing what it is going to do, without having adopted an agenda, without knowing the questions it will consider or how it will proceed, without having set up its General Committee or the Main Committees, deprived of the right to consider the urgent problems of the moment and even of the right to vote; the rules of procedure of the General Assembly and the fundamental provisions of the Charter have literally been thrown overboard. 52. Worse still, the decisions relating to our work and perhaps even to the future of our Organization are being reached outside the General Assembly and without its knowledge, the role of the Assembly being reduced to merely approving without opposition, as though it was in need of a guardian or was to be a docile puppet in the hands of a certain great Power. 53.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“At this time, when we are beginning the work of the nineteenth session, we cannot but note with regret the abnormal and extraordinary circumstances in which the General Assembly is meeting this year. 50. In the present state of international tension, when in many parts of the world people are engaged in a bitter struggle against the forces of obscurantism and war at the very time when, in accordance with the Charter, the United Nations should be playing a most active and effective role in protecting the inalienable rights of peoples to freedom, equality and independence and preserving mankind from a fresh world conflict, our Organization seems to be paralysed and shaken to its very foundations. 51.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“47. First of all, Mr. President, allow me to offer you the cordial congratulations of the delegation of the People’s Republic of Albania on your election to the office of President of this session of the United Nations General Assembly. 48. The delegation of the People’s Republic of Albania sincerely welcomes the admission of three newly independent States, Malawi, Malta and Zambia. We rejoice that more than half the States Members of the United Nations have achieved national independence since the creation of our Organization, thanks to their long and heroic struggle. We are convinced that the day is not far off when the representatives of the other peoples who are struggling against colonial oppression will come to swell our ranks. 49.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“It is the profound conviction of the people and Government of the People's Republic of Albania that war can be avoided and that peace and disarmament can be imposed on imperialism if all peaceful countries and all peoples of the world fight together for these noble purposes. We look to the future with optimism. 62. The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania expresses the hope that the United Nations, whose principal purpose is to save the peoples from the scourge of another world war, will spare no effort to that end, and that the work of the General Assembly at its present session will contribute effectively to freedom, peace and international co-operation.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania considers that one of the fundamental tasks of the United Nations is to support the just struggle of the oppressed peoples for freedom, and thinks that it is high time effective steps were taken to eliminate the entire colonial system as rapidly as possible and for good, and to bar the road to neo-colonialism in all its forms. The Albanian delegation will support all efforts towards that end. 61. In the very first lines of its Charter, the United Nations sets itself the preservation of peace as a fundamental task. The cause of peace is the cause of all the peoples.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The tragic events in the Congo reveal how the colonial Powers use the name of the United Nations to keep in slavery peoples who have risen up in the sacred struggle for freedom. The Government of the People's Republic of Albania will never agree to support, even indirectly, a policy directed to such ends. It therefore states, as it has already stated at previous sessions, that it will not participate in expenditure on the United Nations forces in the Congo and in the Middle East, or on purposes contrary to the principles and provisions of the United Nations Charter. 60.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“We condemn the savage oppression and the war of extermination waged against the people subjugated by colonial Powers like Portugal, the United Kingdom and South Africa, and also by the United States of America, which is doing everything possible to support the colonial Powers in this criminal undertaking and striving to substitute its own colonial and neo-colonial rule for the former colonial system. 58. We hail the Addis Ababa Conference of African Heads of State for its important contribution to the liberation of all the peoples of Africa, to the solidarity of all the African countries, and to the struggle against imperialism and against colonialism old and new. 59.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Albanian people and its Government firmly defend the fundamental right of peoples to self-determination, and their right to freedom and sovereignty. There can be neither lasting peace nor solid international co-operation so long as peoples still suffer under foreign domination. That is why we consider that the total and final elimination of colonialism is the main task of our age. That is why we salute and shall wholeheartedly support until victory the heroic and sacrificial struggle of the peoples of Oman and Zanzibar, Angola and Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, Southern Rhodesia, North Kalimantan, and others. We support the incontestable right of British Guiana to full and immediate national independence.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“But this state of affairs was overthrown for ever with the triumph of the national liberation struggle and the popular revolution in November 1944. 55. The Albanian people, having itself passed through a similar ordeal of suffering and struggle for liberation, understands perfectly the legitimate aspirations of oppressed and dependent peoples and will back them to the hilt in their struggle for national liberation. 56. In the last few years dozens of African and Asian peoples have thrown off by their heroic struggle the centuries-old colonial yoke and founded national States which are now Members of the United Nations and make a very important contribution to the struggle for the total liquidation of colonialism and the preservation of peace. 57.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Albanian people are well acquainted with colonialism, for they have themselves suffered from foreign domination and exploitation, under the former regime of the satrap Zog, who was brought to the throne by certain foreign Powers, Albania was a semi-colony in the midst of Europe, a victim of exploitation and a pawn in the hands of the imperialist Powers. Those Powers, by means of rapacious treaties, imposed on my country the "open door" system; they divided up its territory among their monopolies, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, AIPA, and so on. They had plunged the Albanian people in the deepest poverty when finally, on 7 April 1939, fascist Italy unleashed its brutal aggression and occupied the country by force of arms to colonize it completely.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The colonialists always claimed that they had brought civilization to the occupied countries. That is absolutely false. The cultural monuments of China, Egypt, India and Latin America, to mention only a few, bear witness to the high civilization of these countries and are a pride to the human race. To the countries which the colonialists occupied they brought not civilization but barbarism; they brought slavery instead of freedom, ignorance instead of culture, exploitation and savage plunder instead of development of productive forces, and the mass extermination of local populations. 54.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“We fully support the just attitude of the Chinese Government in favour of a peaceful, negotiated settlement of the Sino-Indian frontier question; and we hope that the Indian Government will respond positively to the Chinese Government's efforts to bring about a peaceful solution of this problem. 52. The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania hopes that the General Assembly will at last at its present session solve justly the problem of China's representation in the United Nations, by expelling the Chiang Kai-shek puppet and inviting the real representatives of the great Chinese people, the representatives of the People's Republic of China, to come and take their rightful place. 53. For centuries colonialism held sway in the continents of Africa, Asia and America.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The People's Republic of China is a peace-loving socialist country which has scored enormous successes in peaceful construction and plays a positive international role in promoting peace, the freedom of peoples, and the peaceful solution of international disputes and problems, as was demonstrated by the conferences on Korea, Indo-China and Laos. The People's Republic of China is one of the initiators of the five principles of peaceful coexistence; and that is the basis on which it maintains and develops multiple friendly relations with a great many countries, the majority of which are Members of the United Nations. Faithful to its policy of peace and friendship, it has achieved a negotiated settlement of the frontier questions with Burma, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The liberation of Taiwan and the other Chinese islands occupied by the United States is a lawful right of the People's Republic of China. 50. It is a fact that, every year, the United States Government's opposition to restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations finds less and less support. But it is in the interest of the Organization and of international cooperation to put an end as early as possible to this abnormal and intolerable situation, to restore China to its rightful place in the Organization, and immediately to expel the elements of the Chiang Kai-shek clique from all the organs of the United Nations. 51.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“It is neither just nor worthy that the United Nations should refuse the People's Republic of China its lawful place in this Organization because that is the will of the United States of America. We all know that the United States spared neither funds nor weapons to prevent the triumph of the socialist revolution in China. It follows a hostile policy towards the new China; it has occupied Taiwan and other Chinese islands; it is actively preparing aggression against China and spreading the absurd theory of the "two Chinas", which is part of its plot to detach and establish permanent dominion over Taiwan. All attempts to prevent the forward march of the People's Republic of China have failed and will always fail.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“It is now clear that the absence of the People's Republic of China bars the United Nations from solving the principal international problems; whereas the presence of China would assuredly consolidate the United Nations and contribute greatly to current efforts to solve these problems. 49. China is a founder country of the United Nations and a permanent member of the Security Council; it accounts for a quarter of the world's population. Without China the United Nations is neither universal nor effective. There is only one China in the world, one and indivisible: the People's Republic of China; and its Government is the only government which represents China and is competent to undertake or carryout commitments on China's behalf.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Government of the People's Republic of Albania has placed before the General Assembly a request (A/5498) for the inclusion in the agenda of the eighteenth session of an item entitled "Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations". This question, as has been vehemently and rightly stressed by the representatives of Cambodia, Burma and several other countries preceding me at this rostrum, is a fundamental and pressing problem of the United Nations. Any delay in its solution is directly harmful to the United Nations itself and to the cause of international peace and co-operation.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Albanian delegation hopes that these proposals will be supported by all peace-loving Governments. 46. The Albanian people and its Government, together with the People's Republic of China and several other peaceful countries, continue as always to struggle against the aggressive policies of United States imperialism and its partners, against the policy of nuclear blackmail, in order to remove the danger of war and safeguard peace. 47. The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania hopes that the General Assembly will adopt at the present session decisions which will enable us to pass from sterile discussion and the dangerous illusions deliberately spread about disarmament, to practical and effective measures to achieve general and complete disarmament. 48.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania notes with regret that the conclusion of the Moscow Treaty has unleashed a campaign of slander against the People's Republic of China, which once again reveals the aggressive nature of the United States policy and the real aims of the Moscow Treaty. But this malicious campaign can neither cast a slur on the peaceful policy of the People's Republic of China nor obscure the very important proposals made by its Government in the declaration of 31 July 196 3 circulated to Member States by letter of the Secretary-General dated 25 September 1963, advocating the prohibition and destruction of nuclear weapons and proposing that a conference of the Heads of Government of all countries of the world should be convened to those ends.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Government of the People's Republic of Albania, guided by the best interests of the Albanian people and of the cause of socialism and peace, has rightly spoken out against the Moscow Treaty, which in the last analysis serves imperialism and does not strengthen peace but imperils it, and must therefore be completely unmasked. In the future also the Government of Albania will continue to make determined efforts, jointly with the other peace-loving countries which form the overwhelming majority in the world, to secure the prohibition of all types of nuclear weapons and their testing, the destruction of their existing stockpiles, and general and complete disarmament. 45.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“By giving the three signatory nuclear Powers a nuclear monopoly and a privileged position, the Moscow Treaty creates a striking inequality among States. It places the peace-loving countries at the mercy of the imperialists; it is a flagrant injustice and an incitement to imperialist policies of nuclear blackmail and aggression. Either nuclear weapons should be prohibited as an instrument of war equally for all countries and be completely and finally eliminated from the scene —which is the only just and radical solution— or else they should not, in which case peace or war cannot be left to the whim of a few Powers, particularly to that of the United States, which officially follows a policy of proceeding from a "position of force" and of preparation for war. 44.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Moscow Treaty opens the way to negotiations and agreements between only two or three great Powers on problems of concern to all the countries of the world, and to other agreements detrimental to the socialist countries, the non-aligned countries, and the peoples who are struggling to free themselves from the colonial yoke. This dangerous practice cannot fail to arouse anxiety. It is time to point out that we have left behind us the period when a few great Powers could adopt decisions on important world problems without considering the other countries or their sovereignty, interests, rights and opinions. At the present time, only those agreements which have been concluded with the participation and approval of all the parties concerned can be effective and lasting. The Moscow Treaty cannot be considered one of them. 43.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“All countries, big and small, nuclear and non-nuclear, have their own rights which must be respected. They have the right to express their views about a question of such importance, on a footing of full equality. In our opinion all the parties concerned, that is to say all the countries of the world, should take part in the negotiations for an agreement to ban nuclear weapons tests. There is no doubt that, if this just course were followed, an agreement would be reached which would really lead to the banning of nuclear weapons and to disarmament.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“It immediately resumed underground tests; it resumed negotiations to supply nuclear weapons to Western Germany under the cover of the so-called "multilateral nuclear force", and its negotiations with Canada to supply nuclear warheads to that country. 42. The delegation of the People's Republic of Albania feels that it must stress another very serious aspect of this problem. The banning of nuclear weapons tests, and the danger they represent, do not concern solely the three nuclear Powers which are signatories of the Moscow Treaty, as representatives of other countries have pointed out very justly from this rostrum. They concern all countries and all peoples, and should therefore be solved through mutual agreement between all the countries of the world.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Moscow Treaty guarantees the signatory nuclear Powers a profitable status quo and a monopoly of nuclear weapons; it guarantees them every right and imposes no duties or sanctions if they violate it; whereas it forbids peace-loving countries from increasing their defensive power against the nuclear threat and blackmail of the imperialists. 40. it is perfectly clear from all these facts that there has been no change in United States imperialism and that the Moscow Treaty does not meet the need to strengthen peace but, on the contrary, suits the aims and objectives of the United States, which it allows to implement its war policies under the cloak of respect for the peaceful aspirations of the peoples. 41. In any event, the United States wasted no time in making use of its "freedoms" under the Treaty.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“He said: "But, by limiting Soviet testing to the underground environment, where testing is more difficult and more expensive and where the United States has substantially more experience, we can at least retard Soviet progress and prolong duration of our technological superiority." Thus the Moscow Treaty achieves the United States Government's aim of achieving supremacy in nuclear weapons. Moreover, under that Treaty and on the conventional pretext of so-called "extraordinary events" or of the exercise of national sovereignty, the United States may, whenever it wishes and thinks fit, denounce the Treaty and resume testing in all media.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“Seaborg, the Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, told the Senate on 14 August 1963 that underground tests, which are not prohibited by the Moscow Treaty, would enable the United States to develop a wide spread of nuclear weapons; that it would be technically possible to test nuclear weapons of several thousand kilotons underground, and to gather data which might be even more useful than those gathered from tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water. 39. Similarly Mr. McNamara, the United States Secretary of Defense, in a statement to the United States Senate on 13 August 1963, stressed the advantages of the Moscow Treaty for his country.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“That is the real danger, and the danger of nuclear war is just as great after the Moscow Treaty as it was before. That is why it is necessary to show up all this talk about protection of human health in its true light and to reveal the truth: that the Moscow Treaty was concluded for entirely different purposes. 37. Of course everyone knows that the United States had already discontinued nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water because for the time being it no longer needed them. It was, however, interested in preventing others from making such tests in those media and in ensuring for itself full freedom to carry out its own tests underground, which it needed in order to improve and enrich its nuclear arsenal. The Moscow Treaty guaranteed it that advantage. 38. Dr.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Moscow Treaty in no way guarantees the prohibition of nuclear tests, even in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water; on the contrary, as has been confirmed by the official representatives of the United States, it leaves the three Powers entirely free to resume testing. Everyone knows that the United States has carried out hundreds of nuclear tests in all media without bothering about their effect on human health. We may rightly ask: if the nuclear Powers are genuinely concerned about human health, why have they only suspended nuclear tests —and only in three media— and why do they not decide to prohibit and liquidate the actual nuclear weapons which threaten human lives? Nuclear bombs are not toys; if they fall, there can be no more question of protecting health, because they sow death, they kill people.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“In its statement on the Moscow Treaty on 15 August 1963, the Government of Albania said: "The Government of the People's Republic of Albania thinks that the partial stoppage of nuclear weapons tests partly meets the wishes of the peoples because it does to some extent reduce the danger to health; but the Moscow Treaty of 5 August 1963 is really a hoax and its consequences for the life of mankind are serious." It is a well-known fact that one of the aims which have been mentioned in order to induce nations to press for the prohibition of nuclear weapons tests has been to stop the contamination of the atmosphere by radioactive fall-out from nuclear tests. But was the Moscow Treaty concluded for this purpose? Did the United States sign it out of concern for the health of the peoples? Not at all.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“It does not reduce the existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons; it does not prohibit the production, improvement or future stockpiling of these weapons, or their import or export, or their use in war. This treaty does not lead towards disarmament, but engenders dangerous illusions which might induce peoples to relax their vigilance towards the aggressive policies of the imperialists and their plots against peace. 36.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“When the Soviet Union produced the atomic weapon and thereby destroyed the United States monopoly, the United States embarked upon a frantic race to produce and improve nuclear weapons in order to maintain its supremacy in this arm, and used the nuclear weapon as an instrument of its policy of pressure, blackmail, and aggression against the socialist and other peace-loving countries. 35. The Moscow partial test ban treaty does nothing to solve the fundamental problem concerning all peoples: that is to say, the prohibition and destruction of all nuclear weapons. The treaty provides only for the cessation of nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, whereas it permits underground tests and even makes them legal.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“Since August 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and senselessly killed hundreds of thousands of innocent victims, all peace-loving peoples and countries, including the People's Republic of Albania, have never ceased to struggle for a ban on these weapons of mass extermination and on all testing, manufacture and use of nuclear weapons, and for the destruction of stockpiles, in the conviction that these steps are both very important as an integral part of general disarmament, and effective in preventing a nuclear war. The imperialists, however, in whose hands nuclear weapons gravely threaten peace and mankind, have obstinately opposed these just popular demands. 34.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“Even the discussions within the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament at Geneva have been fruitless, unless, against all logic, the establishment of a direct communication line between Moscow and Washington, which can be useful for every purpose except disarmament, is to be regarded as a step towards disarmament. 32. Similarly, the Treaty banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, signed at Moscow on 5 August 1963 by the Soviet Union, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, cannot be regarded as a step towards disarmament, despite all the hullaballoo by which it has been surrounded and which is in some respects reminiscent of the morrow of the Munich Agreement twenty-five years ago. 33.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“At the same time it is increasing military appropriations and conducting one provocative military manoeuvre after another. 31. The Soviet Union's proposal at the fourteenth session of the General Assembly to attain general and complete disarmament within four years encountered favourable response everywhere, it will be recalled that on 20 November 19 59 the General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on that subject [1378 (XIV)]. Four years have elapsed since then, yet no concrete progress has been made towards disarmament. On the contrary, armaments have grown in quantity and quality and the danger of war has increased. The Western Powers tend to reduce disarmament to a mere propaganda slogan.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Government of the People's Republic of Albania fully supports the peace-loving policy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, and their tireless efforts for the peaceful unification of their countries and for the withdrawal from South Korea and South Viet-Nam of the United States armed forces, which constitute the main obstacle to unification and a constant threat to peace in the Far East. 30. On disarmament there has been no progress towards agreement. The NATO Powers continue to oppose disarmament and to intensify the arms race. The United States of America continues to strengthen its aggressive blocs and the network of innumerable military bases which it has established all around the socialist countries and equipped with nuclear weapons.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“Is this not further evidence that United States imperialism has taken upon itself to defend all corrupt and anti-popular regimes, and that it is the sworn enemy of the freedom of peoples, of peace and of democracy? The recent sad events in Viet-Nam, which have aroused the indignation of all honest and peace-loving people in Asia and throughout the world, create a situation for which these Powers are directly responsible. The heroic struggle of the South Vietnamese people, who have taken up arms in the cause of national liberation, democracy and self-determination, engages the sympathy of every people and will beyond question end with victory over the aggressors and their henchmen. 29.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“For years the people of South Korea have been obliged to struggle and sacrifice all for their fundamental rights and their national independence. 28. In South Viet-Nam not only is the United States of America trampling on the 1954 Geneva Agreements, bolstering the power of Ngo Dinh Diem's fascist clique, which until recently it used to present as a model of democracy and which is hated by the whole Vietnamese people, but it has also intervened in the country by force of arms, and for years has been waging undeclared war on the heroic Vietnamese people. By what right and for what purpose does it intervene with its troops in South Viet-Nam, where a civil war, a domestic affair of the South Vietnamese people, is in progress?”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)