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Zhivkov

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first: 1960-09-24
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“Some people who like reading the Gospel upside-down insinuate that in helping the under-developed countries the socialist countries are after spheres of influence. It is unnecessary to prove that the socialist countries do not strive for spheres of influence and do not divide the world into blocs, into privileged and unprivileged nations. This patent belongs to others. But we are justified in asking the following questions: What is it that prevents the Western countries, too, from giving the same type of disinterested assistance to the under-developed countries, assistance with absolutely no strings attached?”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It should be recognized as a fact that this is the first time in history that such aid is being granted, that a new type of economic relations, unknown in former times, is being created between highly developed and underdeveloped countries. These relations are based on the principles of complete equality, respect for each other’s internal affairs. We may note with satisfaction that the economic and technical assistance granted by the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries to the under-developed countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America is growing year by year. This disinterested aid of the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries not only makes it possible for these countries to consolidate their economy and independence, but is also becoming an important factor in world economic relations, 127.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It is a well-known fact that there can be no real freedom and independence that these countries will not be able to create and develop their national economy, unless they rid themselves of their economic dependence upon the monopolies. 126. We, like many other countries, consider that the under-developed countries should be helped with an open heart — honestly, sincerely and selflessly; that the aid granted to them should have no strings attached, or either a political or any other nature; and that the aid should bring no privileges to the country providing it. This is the type of aid the socialist countries are giving the under-developed countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It is quite clear that the main problem facing the colonial countries which have won their independence is the problem of creating their own national economy and their own industry, of abolishing feudal economic forms, of carrying out land reform — in a word, of developing all branches of production. It is precisely on this major problem that the President of the United States, Mr. Eisenhower, did not pay a single word in his speech to the General Assembly. His proposal was aimed primarily at measures for rendering social assistance to the under-developed countries. The under-developed countries do not need charity, mites and alms.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“We cannot ignore the fact that this "aid” is accompanied by overt and hidden political, economic or military conditions. We cannot reconcile ourselves to the fact that such strings seriously endanger the freedom, independence and sovereignty of the individual States. It is no secret that some rich countries which strive to appear as benefactors and philanthropists get a hundred dollars of profit for every single dollar of "aid" which they provide to the under-developed countries. It is quite obvious that this type of "aid" leads to the further exploitation and exhaustion of these countries’ economies. As a matter of fact, this is a bait, a trap masked as aid. The under-developed countries need no such "aid". 125.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It is logical and justified for the United Nations Organization to request those economically and technically advanced countries which until now have had colonial possessions, to restore, for the moment at least, part of the wealth they have plundered, so that the material and cultural progress of the newly liberated countries may be helped and so, that conditions may be created for the provision of at least the most elementary living standards for their populations. 124. But when we speak of aid to the under-developed countries, we know that there is aid and "aid". Here, from this rostrum, we cannot but condemn the intentions and aims of a number of colonial Powers which, under the form of "aid", strive to perpetuate the economic backwardness and dependence of the under-developed countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“This independence should become a real one, so that the former colonies may set out upon the road of free and sovereign development and create and develop their national economy. 123. We realize only too well that the newly liberated peoples will not be able to overcome their backwardness by their own efforts and resources alone. They need the all-sided assistance of the advanced countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“By its scope and content the assistance of the Soviet Union is unprecedented in the history of the Bulgarian people. It is a fundamental truth for us that without the assistance and support of the Soviet Union, without our mutual co-operation with the remaining socialist countries, the great economic and cultural achievements of our country would have been unthinkable. Our friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union is not only deeply rooted in the past; it has been won in the hard struggle our people fought against monarcho-fascist dictatorship, it has been won at the price of the heavy sacrifices which have paved for us the salutary road of socialist development. 122. It goes without saying that it is not enough to achieve only formal independence.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The Soviet Union supplies our country and a number of other countries with the best up-to-date machinery and equipment and helps us rapidly to develop our economy. Thus, for example, forty-five big factories and plants and twenty-five individual construction sites have been built in our country with Soviet assistance. The Soviet Union generously provides us with tractors, harvester-combines and other agricultural machines, with raw materials, credits and specialists; it renders us an all-sided economic, scientific, technical and cultural assistance. This assistance creates the conditions necessary for the rapid development of the forces of production in Bulgaria and guarantees its national independence and state sovereignty. This is disinterested assistance such as is given only by brother to brother.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“You will be able to see with your own eyes that the slaves, of yesterday, whose rights were trodden upon and suppressed, are today the real masters in the new Bulgaria. Therein lies our power, therein lies the power of the entire socialist camp. It is rooted in the inexhaustible possibilities of the socialist system, in the unlimited prospects it opens for the all-around development of human personality. 120. So that you will not say I am making propaganda, let me repeat: Come to our country, gentlemen; come to Bulgaria to find out personally how things stand. 121. When we speak of the rapid progress of our economy and of our historic and peaceful victories, we cannot fail to stress the decisive role of the assistance which we receive from the Soviet Union, the role of our mutual co-operation with the other socialist countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“Our people, however, are very familiar with this type of compassion since they have been "enjoying” it for quite a number of years. 119. I would invite you, Mr. Diefenbaker, to come to our country to see conditions there for yourself. Our Slavic hospitality is well known and we shall meet you with an open heart. We shall not organize pitiable demonstrations against you, not only because this is alien to the spirit of the Bulgarians but also because it is incompatible with the elementary rules of hospitality, Come to see for yourself the enthusiasm of the Bulgarian industrial and office workers and cooperative farmers, of all sections of the people; come and see how they are building their happy socialist life.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The State provides pensions to all aged industrial and office workers and co-operative farmers. Illiteracy has been done away with. Medical aid and education, including university education, are free. The people have unlimited access to the fruits of science, education and culture. Suffice it to point out that the number of university students has risen from 10,000 in 1939 to 49,000 in 1960. This means that 63 out of every 10,000 people in our country study in higher institutes of learning. 118. These are only a few facts about the situation in our country. This is how the "slaves” in Bulgaria work, live and create. Some of the speakers at the present session have shown a strange compassion for the peoples in the socialist countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The productive forces are rapidly developing and our national economy is growing stronger. Many new branches’ of industry, including branches of heavy industry, have been created. In 1959 industrial production was eleven times that of 1939, whilst the ratio between the volumes of industrial and agricultural production during the same period changed roughly from 25:75 to 71:29. Whereas formerly in Bulgaria there was an insignificant number of tractors and reapers and absolutely no harvester- combines, now thousands upon thousands of tractors, harvester-combines and many other agricultural machines are being used. Unemployment — that scourge of the working people — has been dealt away with once and for all. Real income per caput has risen by 73 per cent since 1952.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It will help human progress develop at an. unprecedented pace, thus opening a new page in modern history. 117. The experience of the Bulgarian people also shows what it means for a people to throw off the shackles of imperialist bondage. I beg the Assembly to allow me to mention a few data. For decades our people suffered under the domination of foreign militarist and monopolist groups. Our country's economy was extremely backward and was actually transformed into an appendage providing agricultural products and raw materials to the advanced, industrialized Western countries. For sixteen years now our people have been masters of their country, conscientious builders of their life and their destinies. From a dependent and backward agrarian country, Bulgaria has changed into a free industrial-agrarian country.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The abolition of colonialism will improve their national self-confidence, it will free and open up wide vistas to the development of their creative activities and initiatives. The productive forces of society will get a powerful impetus. Conditions will be created for a much more fruitful utilization of the world’s resources and the present gaps in economic development among the different countries will be bridged. 116. Do I have to point out the growing beneficial effect which the abolition of the colonial system will have upon the development of international relations, the lessening of world tensions and the consolidation of world peace? We are deeply convinced that the complete and final abolition of the colonial system will be an epoch-making success not only for the enslaved nations but also for mankind as a whole.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It develops in a denatured and one-sided direction. The colonialists are full masters of the wealth and raw materials of the colonies. The colonizers — as our people say — skin the sheep three times in order to extract the biggest possible profit. 115. That is why we, just like any self-respecting Government and self-respecting people, stand for the immediate and complete abolition of colonialism, that black spot of humanity. It is hardly necessary for me to enumerate in detail what the results of the abolition of the colonial system would be. Suffice it to say that its abolition will bring freedom to the peoples of a number of countries. There would be an end once and for all to the indescribable sufferings, the unparalleled humiliation and suppression of the national and human dignity of the colonial nations.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The rapacious plunder of the wealth of individual countries; the crushing of all human rights and liberties, the punitive expeditions, the prisons and concentration camps; the hard and unbearable slave labour; the misery, starvation and ignorance of the colonial nations; the incitement of nations and tribes against each other — all this in plain language is nothing but shameful colonial policy. This has hardly anything to do with philanthropy and benevolence or with a "civilizing mission" in the colonies. 114. It is not for philanthropic or civilizing activities that the imperialists need the colonies. They need them to plunder their riches, to extract and pile up fabulous profits from these countries. It is no accident that the economy of the colonies is a backward economy, an economy of exploitation and plunder.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“In order to keep the lands and the riches of the colonies and of the newly liberated countries, the modern colonialists still refuse, to renounce the barbarous methods and means of plunder and oppression which were used by their ancestors in the past centuries when they were conquering those lands. For what does the unprecedented aggression against the Congo prove, or the six-year-old bloodshed in Algeria, the police terror in the countries of East Africa, the outrages of the racialist Government in the Union of South Africa, the savage terror in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique, the provocations and plots against Cuba, Indonesia and Laos?”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“They are shedding the blood not only of the enslaved peoples but of their own peoples as well. With their unreasonable and adventurous colonial policy they complicate the international situation and create a grave danger to world peace. 113. The modern colonialists spread the "theory" that colonialism has allegedly changed and "ennobled" itself, that the colonial peoples — as some representatives of the colonial Powers put it here — have allegedly turned into "allied nations", that the former relationship between the master State and the enslaved States has become a thing of the past. None of this is true.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“This shameful phenomenon should no longer be the black spot of human civilization. The time has come for freedom, justice and humaneness to triumph in all corners of the earth and for all nations. Colonial slavery should give way and will inevitably, give way to the free, independent and sovereign development of all nations, big and small, black and white. We should all make every effort so that the middle of the twentieth century could be marked by the burial of the colonial system. 112. When we speak of abolishing the colonial system , we are perfectly aware of the fact that the colonizers are making every effort to keep their positions. With sword and fire, with teeth and nails, they are trying to preserve their domination over the colonial and dependent countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The peoples will see in the United Nations not only an organization expressing their most cherished hopes and striving for a peaceful, free and happy life but also an active organ which defends in practice their just interests and demands and which solves the urgent problems of our times. 111. The great October socialist revolution opened a new page in the history of mankind. It also opened the page of the disintegration and collapse of the colonial system. The fact that the socialist camp came into being in the world and is growing stronger made it possible for scores of countries to win their freedom and to take up the road of independent development. In the black continent of Africa the peoples are rising in masse to fight and destroy the colonial system. Yet more than 100 million people still suffer in the fetters of colonialism.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“No matter how hard the colonialists try to lessen the impact of the Soviet proposal, no matter what efforts they make in this respect, the incontestable fact is that the declaration of the Soviet Government will remain in the annals of history as one of the brightest and most humane documents of mankind. 110. We should like to express our confidence that the General Assembly will vote and approve the declaration on the granting of independence to the colonial countries and peoples. This would tremendously enhance the prestige of the United Nations in the eyes of all humanity.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“I should like to state, first of all, that the delegation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria supports, word by word, the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples submitted to the session by the Soviet Government. It is our view that the declaration is a historic document of exceptional international importance. There is not the slightest doubt that the peoples of all continents and that public opinion of the entire world will adopt the declaration as a manifesto, as a charter of the freedom and independence, of the equality and respect for the sovereign rights and the territorial integrity of all nations on our planet, without execution. A testimony to this is the world-wide response with which the Soviet proposal have met everywhere and especially among the colonial and newly liberated peoples.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“It is the obligation of the United Nations, stemming from its Charter and its fundamental principles, to request all its Members to observe the most elementary norms in international relations, to respect the sovereign rights of all nations and to renounce the methods of violence, provocation and aggression. 107. At present, the questions of abolishing the colonial system and of general and complete disarmament acquire an exclusive importance for the destinies of mankind. Allow me to dwell on these questions. 108. The question of the complete and final abolition of the colonial system is one of the most urgent and cardinal problems of our time. Every State, every Government, bears a responsibility for its solution. No doubt the United Nations Organization also bears a responsibility in this matter. 109.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“These actions are incompatible with international law and with the principles of the United Nations Charter; they represent a serious threat to world peace and security. This is a dangerous, adventurous game which should be stopped. 106. We support the Soviet Government's proposal to discuss at the current session the question of the menace to world peace caused by the aggressive actions of the United States against the USSR, K is the duty of the United Nations to make its own the just verdict with which the nations branded these shameful aggressive and provocative acts of the United States.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“That is why the first and foremost condition for the successful solution of the Korean problem is to ensure the immediate withdrawal of the American troops from South Korea, thus enabling the people not only in North Korea but also in South Korea to have a free say concerning their country's destiny. 105. Mankind cannot remain calm when militaristic circles in the United States and other Western countries are perpetrating provocations and undertaking aggressive actions in one part of the world or another, and especially when these acts are extolled as official government policy. Such is, for example, the case with the perfidious intrusion of United States military Spying aircraft into the air space of the Soviet Union and of other countries. Could this be called a reasonable policy?”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“Could one ever ensure peace in the Far East and in the world without the just solution of this problem? There is only one way to solve the problem, and it is the peaceful reunification of North and South Korea, which should be brought about by the Korean people themselves without any foreign interference. We support the proposal for a confederation between North and South Korea on the basis of the draft presented by the Government of the Korean People's Democratic Republic. 104. Naturally, there can be no question of Korean unification as long as South Korea is under foreign tutelage and as long as American troops exercise full control and behave in an irresponsible way there.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“That is why it is extremely dangerous to maintain the present situation in West Germany which creates a climate of insecurity in Europe. This is a real crime against mankind. The West German militarists ought to be bridled before it is too late. 102. It is necessary to sign as soon as possible a peace treaty with Germany and to settle the problem of West Berlin. The solution of the German problem can no longer be delayed. That is why we support the proposal to sign a peace treaty with Germany as soon as possible. Let us hope that the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and France will finally support the efforts of the Soviet Union for the signing of a peace treaty with Germany and for the liquidation of this dangerous hotbed of war. 103. Let us take another unsettled international problem — the Korean problem.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“No doubt the most serious of these problems is the German problem, the problem of signing a peace treaty with Germany. Many countries and nations, including our own, which more than once have fallen victims to German militarism, are deeply alarmed at the fact that irredentism and militarism are being revived in Western Germany and insolently begin to bare their claws. Could the nations calmly watch how the power of the irredentist Bonn army is being increased and how conditions are being created to provide it with nuclear weapons and rockets? If during the last war many countries and nations became the prey of German militarism, the resurrection of this ghost of war in the heart of Europe could lead to a third world war, to a terrible disaster for mankind.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“They are the imperialist powers, the aggressive ruling circles in the United States and in other Western countries — United States partners in NATO. Particularly alarming is the fact that the military circles in the United States and elsewhere in the West, who play the game of the monopolies which are materially interested in military production, have gained the upper hand and are exerting a decisive influence on the foreign policy of the Governments. In the present international situation this fact is loaded with danger. On the other hand, the unsettled international problems resulting from the Second World War form a constant source of tensions in international life and, if not solved in good time, represent a serious threat to world peace and security. 101.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“As far as our country and Government are concerned, I should like to stress once again that they will continue to work for the assertion of the principle of peaceful coexistence, that they will go on fighting against the attempts to sow hatred among the nations and to intensify international tensions and the ’bold war". 100. On the other hand, it would be naive to fail to see or to underrate the other line in international relations — the line of the armaments drive, of intensification of the cold war and of increasing international tension, the policy of undermining international understanding under the flag of anti-communism. We should openly name the proponents of this line which they so obstinately defend even at the current session. The peoples should know them well.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“Only this line in international relations can guarantee and lead to the lessening of international tensions, to the disbanding of the military blocks and the liquidation of military bases, to the realization of general and complete disarmament, to the exclusion of war from the life of society, to broad economic, cultural and scientific relations among the nations. 99. The imperative necessity today Is to counteract every attempt to make the policy of peaceful coexistence retreat from the positions it has already conquered. The line of peaceful coexistence should be further asserted and developed. Every attempt to divert the nations from this line should be thwarted.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The line of peaceful coexistence corresponds to the basic interests of both the peoples of the socialist countries and of all other peoples. That is why it has grown into a material force in the development of the international situation. 98. It Is a happy fact that in the United Nations, too, the representatives of many countries and nations honestly and sincerely stand on the principles of peaceful coexistence. The policy of peaceful coexistence is a realistic policy, dictated by life itself, by the vital necessity to ensure world peace and to solve the international controversies by peaceful means.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“No Balkan Government desiring to carry out a realistic policy should forget this fact. 96. On behalf of our Government, I would like once again from this rostrum to address an appeal to the Governments of all Balkan States and, more particularly to the Governments of Turkey and Greece, for joint measures and common efforts to transform the Balkans — this former powder keg of Europe — into a peaceful and tranquil cornet of the earth. 97. We would like to express our satisfaction at the fact that the general line of peaceful coexistence followed by the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries in international relations is asserting itself day after day. Its attractive power is growing. It has already been adopted and is supported by many countries, by different circles and public figures throughout the world.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“94.. In spite of the efforts we are making, the progress so far achieved in this respect is only a beginning. We continue to support our proposals. We are not losing hope that these proposals, which are of mutual benefit, will meet with a favourable response on the part of the Governments of the interested Balkan States and will help to reduce tension in the Balkans. 95. It is our profound conviction that there exist in the Balkans the objective conditions necessary for the solution of the pending problems. There are no such controversial problems among the Balkan countries which could not be settled around the table provided we display good will and a desire for mutual understanding. We are neighbouring countries; we have lived, we live and we shall continue to live in the Balkan peninsula in immediate contact.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“We have proposed, for examine, that we should sign a nonaggression pact among the Balkan States; reach an agreement for a decisive reduction of the armed forces of the Balkan States to the level sufficient for frontier guard duty; transform the Balkans into the area in which the idea for a general and complete disarmament would first find its application; expand mutual economic co-operation and trade relations among the Balkan countries upon the principles of equality and mutual benefit; build with common efforts hydro and power projects of Balkan-wide significance so as to ensure the fullest possible utilization of the natural and other wealth and resources of the Balkans; exchange industrial, agricultural and other exhibitions and parliamentary, cultural, scientific, sports and other delegations; develop tourism among our countries, etc.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“We also supported the proposal of the Romanian Government for the calling of a conference of the leading statesmen of the Balkan States to discuss some basic problems of the situation in the Balkan peninsula. 92. Our Government has always manifested and will continue to manifest its readiness to discuss and support any proposal, wherever it may come from, as long as it is in the interests of the general development of the Balkans along the path of understanding, good neighbourly co-operation and peace. 93. On many occasions, our Government has proposed detailed and concrete measures which would help to improve relations among the Balkan States.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“Bulgaria's mutual relations with the other socialist countries develop in an excellent way mid in the spirit of complete unity and understanding. They grow increasingly closer and stronger on the baps of fraternal friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance in our common socialist cause. Following the line of friendship and co-operation with all nations we maintain diplomatic, economic and cultural relations with many countries in the world. In this respect we attribute an exceptional importance to our relations with the Balkan States and make consistent efforts to consolidate peace in the Balkans. 91. We supported the proposal made by Mr. Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, for the transformation of the Balkans and the Adriatic into an atom and rocket-free area.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“During the very first days of people’s rule in Bulgaria, Georgi Dimitrov pointed out that the People's Republic of Bulgaria needed lasting peace, friendship and co-operation with all nations in "order to be able to catch up with the more advanced countries and to become a democratic and socialist Stat3 with a developed economy and high culture. 89. Our country’s foreign policy fully corresponds to and is a continuation of its home policy — a policy of an all-round upsurge along the road of socialism and of intense economic and cultural development, a policy whose aim is to improve the well-being of the people. In the past sixteen years our people have scored enormous achievements in the fields of industry, agriculture, construction, education, science and culture- achievements which have radically transformed our country. 90.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The People’s Republic of Bulgaria and its Government are consistently carrying out a policy of peace and peaceful coexistence among the nations with different economic and social systems. The principles of peaceful coexistence are guiding principles in our country’s relations with other States and in every step and initiative it takes in international life. This foreign policy of our country is inspired by the Bulgarian Communist Party which for nearly seven decades now has been educating the Bulgarian people in the spirit of international solidarity, respect and love for the other nations and countries.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“This is not only an expression of consideration and respect for the United Nations; it is a testimony to our serious and highly responsible attitude towards the problems to be discussed at this session, problems which are of exclusive importance for all States and nations. Let us hope that in this respect the fifteenth session of the General Assembly will mark a turning point in the history of the United Nations. 87. Before expounding the stand of the Bulgarian people and Government on the fundamental problems on the agenda, I would like on behalf of our delegation and our people cordially to greet the newly admitted members of the United Nations and to wish them success in the consolidation of their independence, their national economy and culture, as well as fruitful co-operation in the United Nations for the benefit of world peace. 88.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)
“The Presidium of the National Assembly and the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria have approved the composition of our delegation, bearing in mind the important questions on the agenda of the fifteenth session of the General Assembly, and have given us wide powers to take part in the discussion and in the solution of the problems on the agenda. 86. No doubt, the main characteristic feature of the fifteenth session of the General Assembly lies in the fact that this is the first time the most responsible statesmen of so many countries have participated in the work of the General Assembly.”
1960-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 15 (1960)