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“78. Lenin's ideas on peace and peaceful coexistence between States with different social systems, the principle of proletarian internationalism, his ideas on ensuring the independence and equal rights of large and small States and peoples, equitable and mutually advantageous cooperation among all States, and their development along the path of economic and social progress, are gaining ever wider recognition. In substance they form the basis of all positive action on the international scene, including the work done in the context of the United Nations. It is natural that Lenin's anniversary should be widely celebrated in the United Nations and its specialized agencies. 79. This year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the great victory of the Powers of the antiHitlerite coalition over fascist Germany and militarist Japan.”
1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)
“Lenin, an outstanding thinker and revolutionary whose name is connected with the beginning of a new era in the history of mankind the era of the revolutionary transformation of the world in the interests of the workers. To Lenin, the founder of the first socialist State in the world, belongs the outstanding merit of preparing and implementing the peace-loving principles of socialist foreign policy. In accordance with those principles, the first Congress of Soviets of Byelorussia on 2 February 1919, i.e. one month after the foundation of the Republic, created as a result of the victory of the great October Socialist Revolution, sent to all peoples a message which solemnly proclaimed, on behalf of the millions of workers and peasants of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, its will to live in peace and friendship with all peoples.”
1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)
“President, on your election to the office of President of the twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly, which we hope will leave a great mark in the history of the United Nations. 75. We should like to take this opportunity to express our best wishes to the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations U Thant, who in the summer of this year paid an official visit to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and had useful talks with leaders of the Republic. 76. The General Assembly is holding its twenty-fifth session in a year marked by some notable anniversaries connected with events of primary and permanent historical importance for the peoples of the whole world, and also for the United Nations.. 77. The year 1970 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of V. I.”
1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)
“71. . We are today mourning the untimely death of the President of the United Arab Republic, Gamal Abdel Nasser, an outstanding statesman and acknowledged leader of the national liberation movement, and a great friend of the Soviet Union. 72. Under the leadership of President Nasser the people of the United Arab Republic achieved considerable success in the development of the national economy and carried out a number of important social reforms; it also waged a decisive anti-imperialist struggle for the freedom and independence of its own country and of other peoples. 73. We express our deep sympathy to the people and Government of the United Arab Republic and to the family of the deceased President. 74. The delegation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic congratulates you, Mr.”
1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)
“This policy has played, is playing and will continue to play an important role in the common struggle of the anti-imperialist forces and in the strengthening of the power and solidarity of the commonwealth of socialist countries; it will serve as an effective instrument for thwarting the aggressive plans of imperialism, for maintaining peace and consolidating the principles of the peaceful coexistence of States with different social systems, and for supporting the liberation struggle of the peoples.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“One of the most important political events in this sense was the International Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties held in Moscow in June 1969. The basic document of the Conference stresses that the main link between the common activities of the anti-imperialistic forces is the struggle against the danger of war — the danger of a world-wide thermonuclear war which continues to threaten the peoples of the world with mass destruction — and the struggle for peace throughout the world. 123. Our country’s peace-loving foreign policy is based on the principles elaborated by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin — the centenary of whose birth the whole Soviet people and all progressive mankind are now preparing to celebrate. 124.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“It is essential to recognize and give effect to the right of the German Democratic Republic to become a member of the United Nations and other international organizations on the same footing as the Federal Republic of Germany. It is essential to abandon the discriminatory practice imposed by the imperialist Powers back in the cold war years, whereby the German Democratic Republic is not allowed to take part in the work of international organizations or to become a party to international agreements and conventions. 121. In conclusion, we wish to stress again that today, as never before, what is needed is decisive action aimed at normalizing the international situation and curbing the imperialist forces which constitute the principal threat to peace and security. 122.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The Byelorussian SSR has always opposed and will continue to oppose the policy of militarism and revanchism, fascism and neo-nazism. All militarists, revanchists and neo-nazis would long ago have understood that the State frontiers in Europe, including the Oder-Neisse frontier and the frontier between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, are unchangeable. They should long ago have recognized such an immutable fact as the existence of the socialist German Democratic Republic which for the past 20 years has been consistently pursuing a peace-loving policy and which constitutes a stable factor for peace in Europe. 120.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“We welcome the statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries made at the meeting at Reykjavik in September 1969, and also the statements by a number of European representatives during the general debate in the General Assembly supporting the proposal of the States members of the Warsaw Pact for the convening of a conference on questions of European security. 118. The holding of such a conference would be a valuable contribution to the strengthening of peace and security in Europe and to the development of all-European co-operation. Such a conference would help to transform Europe into a continent of peace, would have a favourable effect on the whole international situation and would point the way to the solution of many complex problems. 119.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“A concrete programme of action and measures for creating a collective security system have been outlined at the meetings of the States members of the Warsaw Pact held at Bucharest in 1966, and at Budapest in 1969, and also by the Karlovy Vary Conference in 1967. The appeal of the Warsaw Pact countries to all European countries, adopted on 17 March 1969 at Budapest, and calling for the convening of an all-European meeting on security questions, is in keeping with the vital interests and cherished aspirations of all the peoples of Europe. The Byelorussian SSR highly appreciates the important and useful initiative of Finland on the starting of practical preparations for an all-European meeting.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“In Western Germany, neo-nazism is raising its head and has already openly stated its claim to participate in the determination of the internal and foreign policies of that country. The Federal Republic of Germany has not yet acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 117. All this obliges us now, before it is too late, to take measures to prevent any repetition of the past and to guarantee lasting peace in Europe. The realistic way of doing this is to create a collective security system in Europe. The Soviet Union and the other socialist countries have repeatedly put forward proposals aimed at ensuring a lasting peace.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“There are more than enough causes for anxiety for our country and for other peace-loving countries. Many countries of Western Europe are once more entangled in the meshes of closed military and political alliances, with the aggressive NATO block playing the most sinister role of them all. Massive armed forces - including forces from oversea countries — are being concentrated and built up in the centre of Europe. Thousands of nuclear warheads are stocked in atomic arsenals. In the Federal Republic of Germany there are forces which refuse to recognize the results of the Second World War and the existing frontiers in Europe, and which are encroaching upon the sovereignty and independence of the German Democratic Republic.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“We remember and will never forget the words carved on the granite of the common grave at Katyn: “Remember, good people: we loved life and our Fatherland and you, our dear friends. We were burned alive in the fire. Our appeal to all of you is: Let grief and sorrow be transformed into courage and strength so that you can perpetuate peace and tranquillity on earth, so that life will never again, anywhere, be destroyed in the whirlwind of fire“. This testament is addressed to the peoples of the whole world. As far as the people of Byelorussia is concerned, it will do everything in its power to carry out this behest. 116. The Byelorussian SSR attaches great importance to the problem of European security and cannot remain indifferent to what is now occurring in that part of the world.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The Byelorussian people cherishes the memory of those who fell in the struggle against fascism. For us, this was every fourth one of the Republic’s inhabitants. We have set up a memorial on the site of the former village of Katyn which, like Lidice in Czechoslovakia and Oradour in France, was annihilated by the Hitlerites with all its inhabitants. In our Republic, hundreds of villages shared the fate of Katyn. Their blood-drenched soil is preserved in urns at the Katyn memorial. This is a memorial to the hundreds of villages burnt to the ground together with their inhabitants, and to thousands of other towns and villages which were laid waste and destroyed—a memorial to all the victims of fascist terror on Byelorussian territory. 115. We cannot forget — we do not have the right to forget the tragedy of Katyn.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“In July we once again paid due tribute to the heroic feats of the whole Soviet people which rid mankind of that black plague. We took stock of the results of peaceful construction and we found that, as a result of the labour of our people working in fraternal co-operation with all the peoples of the USSR, an unprecedented growth in all sectors of the economy — and rise in the standard of living of the people — have been achieved. It is sufficient to say that the industrial output of the Republic has increased by more than 10 times compared with the pre-war period and by more than 100 times compared with what we had to start with after the liberation of the Byelorussian land, which had been devastated by the fascists during the occupation years. 114.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Next year, the peoples of Europe and of the whole world will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the defeat of the fascist aggressors, which made it possible to create the United Nations, with the basic purpose of maintaining peace and strengthening international security. 112. In July of this year, the Byelorussian people solemnly celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the Byelorussian SSR from German fascist tyranny. A quarter of a century ago, the last salvos of one of the most gigantic battles of the war sounded and died away. Liberation came to our towns and villages — the liberation in which we believed, for which we had fought and which was won at the price of tremendous sacrifices, by unprecedented feats of arms and labour. 113.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“During the pre-war years the Soviet Union repeatedly made proposals for the establishment of a collective security system in Europe which would have constituted a serious obstacle to those bent on military adventures. Unfortunately the Governments of the Western countries preferred at that time to take another course — the course of connivance with and “appeasement” of the aggressor, of flirting with him and concluding secret deals and agreements behind the backs of the peoples in order to direct Hitler’s aggression towards the East. Everyone knows the results of that shortsighted policy. 111.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Thirty years have elapsed since the beginning of the Second World War, but the years cannot efface the memory of 1 September 1939 — that black day in the history of mankind — from the minds of the peoples. Dozens of States and hundreds of millions of people were drawn into the abyss of the Second World War unleashed by German fascism, which had been reared by the forces of imperialism. Many people, and above all those who have directly experienced the dire consequences of Hitlerite invasion, ask themselves how it could happen that fascist Germany should have been able to plunge mankind into a destructive war in which more than 50 million people perished; were there not forces and possibilities for checking the aggressor in time and preventing the conflagration of a world war? 110. There were indeed such forces and possibilities.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Last year, unfortunately, some representatives of the developing countries did not appreciate that fact, with the result that an unpromising committee was set up to prepare a programme for the Second Development Decade — it was set up with a composition which made it impossible for the socialist countries, including the Byelorussian SSR, to take part within the framework of that committee in the elaboration of a realistic programme for protecting the economic interests of the young independent States, for establishing and practising equitable and mutually advantageous relations in international trade and co-operation, and for providing assistance in the implementation of genuine national development plans in the interests of the people and not for the enrichment of exploiters abroad and at home. 109.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“It is also a mistake to suppose that the United Nations can elaborate effective measures for the elimination of the economic backwardness of the developing countries without taking into account the interests and the position of the socialist countries — the sincere friends of the peoples of the young independent States. 108.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“In view of the failure of the colonialists to fulfil their obligations under the United Nations Charter concerning the economic and social advancement of Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories, and as a result of the neo-colonialist policy of plundering and exploitation, the young developing countries are faced with difficult economic problems. For us, it is fully understandable that these problems are being raised in the United Nations. But they must be closely linked with the basic task of the United Nations — the strengthening of peace and international security. It is no good counting on the possibility of solving problems of economic development without at the same time working for the strengthening of peace and international security and for general and complete disarmament.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The General Assembly must demand, from each colonial Power, immediate and unconditional implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and also implementation of United Nations decisions calling for the cessation of the harmful activities of international monopolies in colonial territories and for the elimination of military bases in those territories. Only the unconditional implementation of the Declaration and other anti-colonial decisions of the United Nations will make it possible to celebrate in a worthy manner the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration, which falls in December of next year. 107.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“For this, however, determined efforts are required, and not pious wishes or hopes that a change of government in the colonial country will change the nature of its colonial policy. What we need are concrete decisions and measures, which are addressed to those who are directly responsible for the maintenance of colonial slavery — the Governments and monopolies of the Western countries — and not general appeals addressed to no one in particular. 106.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Colonialism, however, has not yet been entirely eliminated and the colonizers still hold some of their Overseas possessions. The South African and Southern Rhodesian racists and the Portuguese colonialists are still keeping the indigenous population of the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Southern Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (Bissau) in the chains of colonial Slavery. It is perfectly clear that they could not possibly maintain their colonial domination over other peoples were it not for the assistance and support of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and other Western countries. 105. A consistent stand by all freedom-loving States will contribute to the elimination of the last remnants of colonialism as quickly as possible.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“This position is determined by the principles of Leninist national policy, and is based on an understanding of the importance of the contribution made by the national liberation movement to the world revolutionary process. 102. Lenin’s prophecy that “... the period of the awakening of the East to the revolutionary movement of our time will be followed by the period when all the peoples of the East take part in deciding the fate of the whole world and cease to be merely a means for the enrichment of others“ is now coming true. 103. The most important result characterizing the success of the anti-imperialist national liberation struggle is the emergence of more than 70 young national States in Asia, Africa and Latin America, on the ruins of tottering colonial empires. 104.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“We note with satisfaction that this new initiative, aimed at excluding these barbaric weapons of mass destruction from the military arsenals of States, finds support among many States Members of the United Nations. 100. The General Assembly has acted wisely in adopting a decision to include the question of chemical and bacteriological weapons as a separate item on the agenda, thus rejecting the attempts of certain Western countries in the General Committee to belittle the importance of this initiative by the socialist countries, which is aimed at the strengthening of peace and the maintenance of the security of peoples. 101. Since its foundation, the Byelorussian SSR has always been and still is on the side of the peoples fighting for their national liberation.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“We regard that treaty as an important step towards ensuring that the sea-bed and the ocean floor — which occupy five sevenths of the surface of the planet — are excluded from the arms race, and as a step towards a treaty on general and complete disarmament, and also as the implementation of one of the proposals put forward by the socialist countries in recent years. 99. Tirelessly continuing its efforts in the struggle for disarmament, the group of socialist countries - including the Byelorussian SSR — has submitted for consideration by the present session of the General Assembly an item entitled “Conclusion of a convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and on the destruction of such weapons”.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The Soviet Union in that committee has introduced a number of modified proposals and now we have a right to expect that, this time, the Western countries will not go back on their word but will open the way for the elaboration and submission of agreed decisions on the cessation of the arms race and on disarmament. 97. The delegation of the Byelorussian SSR welcomes the evidence of agreement in the Disarmament Committee concerning a treaty on the prohibition of the emplacement of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the sea-bed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof. 98.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Politicians and military figures who refuse to understand the complete senselessness of the continuing arms race which is already swallowing up more than $200,000 million a year, those who are against the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [resolution 2373 (XXII)], who are against general and complete disarmament, against the prohibition of the use and production of chemical and bacteriological weapons, are assuming a very heavy responsibility towards mankind. 96. We are all expecting results from the work of the Committee on Disarmament whose membership has been enlarged this year.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Such an appeal, on the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, would enhance the authority of the United Nations in the eyes of the peoples of the world, and provide a good basis for its further activities in accordance with the fundamental purposes and principles of the Charter. 94. A positive solution to this problem would certainly represent an advance from the period of confrontation to a period of negotiation; it would also contribute to a more fruitful consideration of many other questions, including the whole complex of disarmament problems. 95. Questions of disarmament must be given their due place at the present session of the General Assembly. The time has come to move onward from mere verbal support of the idea of disarmament to practical action.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“In supporting these proposals, we know that the appeal addressed to all States of the world — both Members of the United Nations and States which are not Members or which, for one reason or another, do not take part in its work — is bound to meet with understanding and support. 93. At the present time, the interests of the cause of peace and the existing situation call for unity of action by all the anti-imperialist forces, whose positions in the United Nations are continually being strengthened. We appeal to all States which support peace, and are striving to enhance the role of the United Nations in questions of international security, actively to join with the socialist countries in working for the adoption of the appeal addressed to all States of the world on the strengthening of international security.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“91. In the appeal it is proposed that all States of the world in their international relations should strictly abide by the principles of peaceful coexistence of States irrespective of their social systems — the principles of sovereignty, equality and territorial inviolability to each State, non-interference in internal affairs and respect for the rights of all peoples freely to choose their social system. The appeal envisages a number of other important measures which open the way to the adoption of agreed decisions which will contribute to the strengthening of international security. 92.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“This is indicated by the item proposed by the Soviet Union on the strengthening of international security, and by the text of the appeal to all the States of the world on this question [A/7654]. This document, which we fully support, contains such important measures as: the withdrawal of troops from territories occupied as a result cf action by the armed forces of some States against other States and peoples defending the independence they have won as a result of the collapse of the colonial system, and their territorial integrity; the cessation of all measures for the suppression of the liberation movements of the peoples still under colonial rule and the granting of independence to all such peoples; observance by States of the decisions of the Security Council on the withdrawal of occupation troops from foreign territories; and the study of the question of effective regional security systems in the various parts of the world with a view to adopting measures for their establishment.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“We appeal to all States to approach these proposals with a full sense of responsibility, and to scrap the discriminatory practice whereby, for the benefit of the foreign occupiers of South Korea, the General Assembly is deprived of the right even of hearing the representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and is unable to formulate concrete measures in keeping with the interests of the Korean people and the cause of preserving peace in that troubled part of our planet. 90. Actively continuing its struggle for the elimination of hotbeds of tension and settlement of conflicts, the Soviet Union together with the other socialist countries is taking clear-cut and concrete measures to strengthen universal peace.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The Byelorussian SSR is one of the co-sponsors of the items on the agenda concerning the withdrawal of United States and all other foreign forces occupying South Korea under the flag of the United Nations and the dissolution of the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea. These proposals are designed to eliminate one of the hotbeds of tension in the Far East and to protect the inalienable right of the Korean people to live without foreign occupation and without imperialist intervention in its domestic affairs. 89. Implementation of these proposals will open the way to peaceful unification of the country on a democratic basis and will enable the people of South Korea to decide its destiny for itself, instead of being the instrument of other people’s policies.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Such ridiculous proposals as that of the Israeli Foreign Minister to proclaim United Nations Day as a “cease-fire day” are regarded by the majority as a mockery of the purposes of the United Nations since nobody can even entertain the idea that Israel, or any other aggressor, will be permitted to commit aggressive acts for 364 days in exchange for a promise to refrain from opening fire on one day in the year. 87. The United Nations car, and must do everything in its power to put the aggressor in his place and settle the conflict in the Middle East in accordance with the Security Council’s resolution, and not allow it to develop into a new armed clash which would have extremely serious consequences for the cause of universal peace. 88.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“We note with satisfaction the constructive position of the Arab States and the ever-increasing support for their just demands by the overwhelming majority of the States Members of the United Nations. 86. We note, as a positive aspect of the work of this session of the United Nations General Assembly, the fact that no one has endorsed any of the arguments put forward by Israeli diplomats in favour of continuing the occupation and revising the frontiers. Even the sponsors of Israel’s aggression in the Middle East hesitate to defend Israel’s position openly.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“These resolutions have played a positive role, because they have condemned Israel’s aggressive acts and have in many cases constituted a barrier to further extremist steps by Israeli ruling circles; they have laid the foundations for a political settlement in the Middle East and have emphasized the concern of the United Nations at the situation of the Arab population in the occupied territories. 84. But the most important thing has not yet been achieved: the aggressor has not yet been rejected from the territories he has seized; he is continuing to disregard the principles of the United Nations Charter, and he is to blame for the fact that the tension in the Middle East persists. 85.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The only way of contributing to a peaceful political settlement in the Middle East is to adopt a position decisively condemning Israel’s aggression, to take concrete measures aimed at the withdrawal of the occupying forces from the Arab territories which have been seized, and to give effect to the other provisions of the Security Council resolution of 22 November 1967 [242 (1967)]. 83. The United Nations cannot ignore Israel’s direct defiance of Security Council resolutions which it is required to comply with in virtue of its obligations under the United Nations Charter. Since the cessation of the war in the Middle East, the Security Council and other United Nations organs have adopted more than a score of resolutions on different aspects of the settlement of the situation in the Middle East.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The same thing must be said about the question of the liquidation of Israeli aggression against the Arab States. Here in the United Nations, the sponsors of Israeli aggression advocate in their statements a political settlement and speak of the inadmissibility of sending military supplies to countries of the Middle East; but at the same time, displaying extraordinary liberality, they bow before the aggressor and supply arms to Israel which is continuing its aggressive policy and openly sabotaging the decisions of the United Nations.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Such statements give the aggressor an excuse to ignore public opinion, and do not contribute to a settlement of the Viet-Nam problem because they do not contain a condemnation of aggression and do not make a distinction between the aggressor and the victim of aggression. 81. The Byelorussian SSR supports the people of Viet-Nam and is providing assistance to them; it hopes for the triumph of their just struggle and advocates a settlement of the Viet-Nam problem on the basis of the position of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet-Nam — a position which is fully in line with the Geneva Agreements of 1954 and offers a genuine basis for a political settlement. 82.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The time has now come for even greater efforts to achieve the total cessation of the aggression against the Viet-Namese people, and to demand the unconditional withdrawal of United States forces from Viet-Nam so as genuinely to create conditions in which that long-suffering people can determine its future without outside interference and can engage in peaceful creative work. In view of this, we consider that speakers from this rostrum who have not taken a clear stand on this question, and have merely talked about the desirability of a peaceful settlement and have expatiated on what they describe as the equal responsibility of both sides, are in actual fact playing into the hands of the aggressor.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Unilateral declarations of so-called obligations do not create any basis in international law for intervention in the affairs of other peoples, and cannot deprive the people of Viet-Nam of the right to fight against the aggressors and decide its own destiny as it sees fit. 80. Last year, thanks to the efforts of many countries in the United Nations and elsewhere, it was possible to bring about the cessation of United States air raids on the territory of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and to begin negotiations in Paris.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“But when it comes to the question of the withdrawal of forces, reference is made only to 60,000 men, and the ambiguous English word “replacement” — which can mean either withdrawal, or substitution or the transfer of troops — is used instead of a plain, clear word meaning unconditional withdrawal of troops. And on the basis of all this, the argument is put forward that everything now depends on the other side. Everybody knows that this war has nothing to do with the interests of the United States soldiers who are dying there and that it has not been engendered by the interests of the security of the United States and its partners in aggression.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The United States of America and its partners in the war against the Viet-Namese people — which even The Times, organ of the British monopolists, recently described as “dirty” — are seeking to paralyse the joint efforts of the anti-imperialist forces in their struggle for the total cessation of the aggression against the Viet-Namese people. We hear them say that they are “ready to withdraw all their armed forces”, that they are defending the right of the people of South Viet-Nam “to determine its future independently and without foreign interference” — and similar high-sounding phrases. And at the same time war is being waged in Viet-Nam by a United States army of more than half a million men and about 70,000 troops from their partners in aggression.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“The experience of many years shows that the diplomacy of Western countries resorts to all manner of verbal manoeuvres to force through its bankrupt policy, to invest it with a superficial glitter, to divert the attention of the world public from the criminal acts of imperialism and to bury the essential problems under a hear of questions and proposals of secondary importance. We have been observing this at the present session too. Let us take, for example, the problems of Viet-Nam and the Middle East. 79.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“While noting the positive results achieved by the United Nations, we must at the same time frankly state that we are not satisfied by every aspect of its activities, and that it can and must become a more effective instrument of peace and international co-operation. The achievements of the Organization should merely be regarded rather as an indication of its possibilities for fulfilling the purposes for which it was created. And we shall do everything in our power to ensure that the activities of the United Nations are, to the maximum possible extent, directed towards the strengthening of peace and co-operation on a basis of equality, and towards compliance by all Member States with the United Nations Charter. 78.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“Among problems of international law, a place of paramount importance is also occupied by proposals of the socialist countries—such as the proposals for the definition of aggression and the elaboration of principles of international law concerning friendly relations and co-operation among States in accordance with the United Nations Charter. 76. On all these and many other questions, the socialist countries have been making concrete proposals on the basis of which constructive decisions have repeatedly beer taken. Any objective observer taking stock of the work of the United Nations over the last quarter of a century will undoubtedly come to the conclusion that the countries of the socialist commonwealth have made a great contribution to the activities of the United Nations during that period. 77.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“In the sphere of the economic and social activities of the United Nations, as a result of the implementation of proposals put forward by the socialist countries, organs such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization have been created and are now operating; problems of the struggle against nazism, apartheid and racial discrimination are being solved; a declaration on social progress and development is being prepared; and principles aimed at protecting the economic interests of the developing countries are being elaborated. 75.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)
“All anti-colonial problems are discussed and settled in the United Nations in the light of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, which was adopted on the initiative of the Soviet Union, and in the light of other proposals by the socialist countries. 74.”
1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)