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1964-09-24
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1968-09-24
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  1. “The views of the Australian delegation on the wide variety of other subjects that await our attention will be expressed when the appropriate items on the agenda are reached. 186. Today, at this very moment, as we sit here and as I speak, fear still casts its shadow over the whole world. Force and the threat of force are still being use to advance national policies. A substantial part of the resources of the world are still diverted to armaments. We still cannot get on with the greater tasks that await us because it is necessary to take defence measures, and we still cannot co-operate fully with each other in peaceful enterprises because there is good reason to prepare for the possibility of war with each other. Men, women and children are being killed at this moment in military operations.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  2. “Whatever faults we may see in the collective security system of the United Nations, and whatever we may choose to say about the Security Council and the General Assembly, do not let us lay this fault at their door. It is the failure of Members to honour their own obligations — a matter initially in the sovereign control of each of them — that creates the danger, and we will be avoiding the basic issue if we start talking about improving peace-keeping machinery before each Member individually faces up to the basic cause of the breakdown in peace. 185. I propose to speak today only of the problems of the maintenance and restoration of international peace and security, including peace-keeping in the sense in which we have come to use that word in recent years.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  3. “Before we start seeking the reason for this in the failure or the imperfection of the Organization in its peace-keeping role, let us face frankly the fact that several of these situations would never have occurred, and many of them would disappear immediately, if only individual Members of the United Nations would honour their obligations, such as the obligations to settle disputes by peaceful means, to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial or political independence of any State, to refrain from giving assistance to any State against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action. 184. These are not obligations placed on the United Nations as an Organization, or on any of the organs of the United Nations; they are obligations placed on each individual Member State.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  4. “All Members are deeply concerned at the moment —and, in my view, very rightly concerned — because in several parts of the world there is military strife and bloodshed. Nowhere is this more evident than in South-East Asia, an area of great concern to my own country.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  5. “In looking to see whether the Charter stops us from doing something, are we today perhaps giving less attention than we ought to give to the fact that the Charter also requires us to do certain things? The Charter places obligations on us. 182. The Charter itself uses the word "obligations" more than once. It is a condition of membership that Members "shall fulfil in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the ... Charter". It is a condition of the entry of new Members that they accept the obligations contained in the Charter and, in the judgement of the Organization, "are able and willing to carry out these obligations". And the obligation which any of us accepts is something that we have undertaken to do and are obliged to do at the risk of being false to our own promises, 183.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  6. “Like all institutions, the United Nations has added to its written constitution various conventions and usages developed in practice. The text of the Charter has not been revised, but it has been interpreted, and the interpretations have been more often political than juridical. Today, the document does not mean exactly what it meant in the first year after it was drafted. This is in the nature of things, and I do not say whether it is good or bad. I would venture the opinion, however, that political interpretations of documents usually mean an attempt to stretch their meaning, and this approach often leads to a tendency to examine the Charter to see whether it stops us from doing something; and, if it does, to see if we can stretch a clause or two in the hope of finding a way through.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  7. “And although in all frankness I doubt whether I was ever on the same side as he in any argument, I should like to honour his memory and his services to the United Nations. 180. When I speak from the rostrum of the General Assembly, I am interrupted by many memories — memories of the San Francisco Conference, the Executive Committee, the Preparatory Commission, the Headquarters Commission, the first General Assembly, the first Security Council, the hopeful but doomed Atomic Energy Commission of 1946, and many other councils and committees now forgotten. Returning to the United Nations after a long absence, one sees many changes. Outwardly it is all much more magnificent, much bigger, much more crowded, much more highly organized, and all that sort of thing can be readily seen. There are, however, some less clearly perceptible changes. 181.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  8. “I should like also to join in the words of welcome to the three new Members — Malawi, Malta and Zambia. We also greet them as fellow members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and we look forward to close and friendly association with them in both the United Nations and the Commonwealth in working for the common good. 179. May I also make a brief reference to the death, announced on the first day of the Assembly, of Mr. Arkady Sobolev. I remember him well as a member of the delegation of the Soviet Union at the San Francisco Conference and at subsequent meetings, and later as the first Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in charge of Security Council Affairs. Mr. Sobolev has a notable place among those delegates of all nations who worked to bring the United Nations into being and to establish it.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)

  9. “176. The Australian delegation joins with others in expressing congratulations to our President on his appointment, and good wishes to him during his term of service in this high office. We welcome the choice of an African as President of the General Assembly. The Assembly, by its choice, and our distinguished President by his acceptance of office, have given visible witness to the place that Africa occupies today in world affairs and the part that its leaders are now taking and are capable of taking in the coming years in the fulfilment of human destiny. 177. And while expressing congratulations to you. Sir, on your office, I should like to take the opportunity of expressing a wish on behalf of my delegation that the Secretary-General may have an early improvement of health in order to be able to join with you in your labours. 178.”

    1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)