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LUKANOV

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1956-09-24
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1961-09-24
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  1. “7. By its clear and unequivocal decisions condemning the aggression committed by the United Kingdom, France and Israel in Egypt, the United Nations must make the Governments of those countries realize that their actions have been censured and stigmatized by world public opinion. It must be clear to all that the position which the aggressors wish to maintain is untenable and that the conscience of mankind will not rest until the last soldier of the United Kingdom, France and Israel has left Egyptian soil. The aggressor must not be permitted to profit by his crimes. The policy of aggression against Egypt has failed, and its partisans must resign themselves to that fact. 8. Any attempts to temporize and to deceive the United Nations and world public opinion by the ridiculous symbolic withdrawal of individual battalions are doomed to failure.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)

  2. “The first step to that end must be to put a stop to the aggression in Egypt, fully to restore Egypt’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and immediately to evacuate all the armed forces of the aggressors from that country. 6. The United Kingdom and France, which, as great Powers, have a special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, must now answer to this international Assembly for one of the most heinous of crimes — unprovoked and barbarous aggression against an independent country. Everyone should long since have realized that humanity has reached a stage in its development at which the old colonialist methods can no longer be used. The polity of plunder and aggression has been unanimously and unconditionally condemned by world public opinion, including the peoples of the aggressor States themselves.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)

  3. “Today the eyes of all nations are fixed on the United Nations in alarm and anticipation. They expect us to adopt real and effective measures which will put an immediate stop to aggression, to take decisions which will definitely strengthen world peace and prevent a recurrence of international lawlessness, such as that which we have all just witnessed. 5. The Bulgarian delegation considers that all the actions and decisions of the eleventh session of the General Assembly must be aimed at reducing international tension, so that at the end of our work we shall all have cause to congratulate ourselves on real progress in strengthening international peace and co-operation.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)

  4. “The United Nations was faced with the fait accompli of brazen aggression and gross violation of international law by three Member States of the United Nations, two of which are, into the bargain, permanent members of the Security Council, the principal organ concerned with the maintenance of world peace. 4. In the circumstances, it is more than ever incumbent upon the United Nations to show its strength and inflict a decisive defeat on the aggressors which have broken the peace and attacked the sovereignty of Egypt — a free and independent State and a Member of the United Nations — and ensure respect for international order and the triumph of the principles of peaceful coexistence and international collaboration, which are the very basis of the Charter.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)

  5. “By committing acts which constitute a gross violation of international law and order, these forces have done their best to cloud the international atmosphere and to hinder the development of international relations in a spirit of peace and peaceful collaboration, and we must admit that temporarily they have succeeded. 3. The eleventh session of the General Assembly, to which the peoples of the world look for important decisions designed to strengthen peace and co-operation, was compelled to begin its work in an atmosphere of renewed international tensions.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)

  6. “The People’s Republic of Bulgaria was admitted to the United Nations at a time when the policy of easing international tension had attained tangible results and when the peoples’ hopes that they would be able to live in tranquility, peacefully collaborating with each other, found solid support in the actual course of international events. 2. As we all know, this favourable development of international relations, this relaxation of international tension, is not to everyone’s liking; there are forces in the world which are interested in keeping international tension artificially alive, which oppose peaceful coexistence and co-operation between nations and which fear a triumph of “the Geneva spirit” as much as the devil is said to fear holy water.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)