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first: 1966-09-24
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“To conclude this part of my statement devoted to the subject of preventing nuclear war and of disarmament, I would like to refer to a point recently made by Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: "We make an unequivocal appeal to the United States and its allies: it is time for them to reaffirm by concrete deeds their share of responsibility for the fate of the world, to realize the futility of a policy based on a position of strength and on reliance on the arms race, and to demonstrate real, rather than a mere ostensible, readiness to engage in dialogue and negotiations in order to find mutually acceptable solutions to problems on which the future of mankind depends.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“If one looks at what Washington has actually been doing—whether it be in the field of nuclear, chemical or conventional arms, zones of peace or nuclear-free zones, or reductions in military expenditures—everywhere the picture is the same. The United States is against solving these problems on the basis of the principle of equality and equal security. 144. It is time it learned the lessons of the history of the last few decades, namely, that attempts to impair the security of others inevitably leads to the diminishing of one's own security. There can be no winners in the arms race. 145.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The unwillingness to engage in constructive negotiations has also been demonstrated by the United States position at the Conference on Disarmament and at the Vienna Talks on Mutual Reduction of Forces and Armaments and Associated Measures in Central Europe, where it has blocked even the slightest progress in these matters. At Stockholm, instead of seeking ways of strengthening trust and security and achieving disarmament in Europe, it has been attempting to facilitate the efforts of its special services to find out about the structure and activities of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its allies. 143.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“It is proposed that States join efforts in this area and, among other things, work for the eventual creation of a world organization for the use of space for the benefit of mankind. The Soviet proposal has met with a favourable response in the United Nations, and we hope that no one will obstruct its implementation. 142. There is no way that the current United States position—no matter how nebulously phrased—can be sold as evidence of a constructive and serious approach on the part of the United States Administration to the central problems of peace and security.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The Soviet Union has submitted to the United Nations for its consideration a new proposal entitled "Use of outer space exclusively for peaceful purposes for the benefit of mankind". It provides for urgent measures to be taken to prohibit for all time the use of force in outer space and from space against the earth, as well as from the earth against targets in outer space, and for the prohibition and elimination of all types of attack systems in space. The idea is that outer space should be used for solving major problems of economic, social and cultural development, such as studying the earth's natural resources, controlling natural disasters, food supplies, improving transport and communications, developing new materials and technologies, and other problems.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The Soviet Union has put forward a number of initiatives—in the United Nations and elsewhere—designed to solve this problem and has unilaterally undertaken not to be the first to deploy any type of anti-satellite weapons in outer space, whereas the United States has refused to engage in talks on preventing the militarization of outer space. The United States has tested anti-satellite weapons and is now preparing to continue those tests. It has set up a special space command and is now in the process of establishing a joint armed forces space command. It is building a command centre for military operations in outer space. A new presidential directive has been signed on the deployment of new weapons in space. 141.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“On the initiative of the Soviet Union and other countries, the General Assembly has adopted a number of resolutions calling for this. However, the representatives of the United States are always against it. The leaders of six States on different continents have appealed, in a Joint Declaration, for an end to the arms race and for a nuclear-weapon freeze. While the Soviet Union welcomed this initiative and once again reaffirmed its readiness to take such steps on a reciprocal basis, the United States has ignored this appeal. 140. Circumstances have given a high priority on the international political agenda to the question of preventing an arms race in outer space.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“With all this disarmament rhetoric, has the United States Administration halted or scrapped even one of these programmes? Quite the contrary, they are in a hurry to stake out new ground for the arms build-up. They are now extending the arms race to new environments and are making no attempt to conceal their intention to follow a policy of heightening tension and confrontation for decades to come. They repeat over and over again their fallacious argument that it is only by carrying out such dangerous and adventuristic programmes that it will eventually be possible to create the conditions for agreement on arms reductions—on Washington's terms, of course. 139. There is a growing movement in the world in favour of freezing nuclear arsenals.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Physical preparations for nuclear war are in full swing: ever new nuclear-weapon systems are constantly being planned, developed and manufactured: the MX and the Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missiles, the B-l and the Stealth strategic bombers, long-range cruise missiles of every basing mode, the Trident submarine nuclear missile system, the Pershing II missile, neutron bombs and shells. This list, I am sorry to say, could be extended. According to mass media reports, three new warheads are being added every day to the United States nuclear arsenal. These systems are now many times more accurate and their basic characteristics make it clear that they have been designed for use as first- strike weapons. The United States military budget is reaching fantastic heights: $300 billion. 138.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The United States Administration is now claiming that it wants disarmament and is even proposing a journey—during the next 20 years or so—down the road of disarmament negotiations. But this American road-map does not show either the routes or the final destinations. All it shows are the barriers, old and new, plus he intention to get whatever it can out of anyone who chooses to travel along this toll-road. Meanwhile, the United States keeps coming up with more and more military programmes.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The Soviet Union is ready to consider these questions seriously at the negotiating table as soon as the United States removes the virtually insurmountable obstacles which it has erected with a view to securing military supremacy. 136. The position of the Soviet Union is clear and consistent. It is based on the following words of the founder of the Soviet State, Vladimir Ilich Lenin: "We shall do our utmost to preserve peace in the future, we shall not shrink from great sacrifices and concessions in order to safeguard this peace. "There are, however, limits beyond which one cannot go. We shall not permit treaties to be flouted; we shall not permit attempts to interfere with our peaceful work." 137.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“In actual practice, what is the meaning of all this talk about the "absence" of pre-conditions and the "desire" of the United States Administration hold talks? It means constantly targeting on the Soviet Union and its allies new types of American nuclear missiles, totally rejecting the constructive proposals of the Soviet Union and, at the same time, calling for talks. Surely, this is political duplicity. 135. There is a need for dialogue, there is a need for talks, but an honest dialogue, serious talks. Washington must show by deeds that it really wants talks. The Soviet Union has put forward proposals for a radical reduction of nuclear armaments which would in no way be detrimental to anyone's security interests.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“We can only conclude that the United States has its own concepts of dialogue and talks. Only recently, the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Shultz, stated in so many words: "We know, as surely as we know anything, that negotiations and diplomacy not backed by strength are ineffectual at best, dangerous at worst." In other words, the United States only wants talks where it can lay down American conditions. All its talk about negotiations is obviously something it wants just to cover up its hegemonistic designs. The reality is that its policy of using the territory of a number of Western European countries as launching pads for American first-strike nuclear missiles remains unchanged. Furthermore, in addition to the increasing palisade of missiles, they now want to divide Europe by an explosive dynamite strip.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The United States and its partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] refuse to do this. The Soviet Union and its allies have called for a treaty between the Warsaw Treaty Organization and NATO on the non-use of force and the maintenance of peaceful relations. The United States is doing its very best to get out of this. Nor can we see on the part of the United States any readiness to implement the United Nations declarations on the prevention of nuclear war and on educating, peoples in the spirit of peace and other decisions designed to prevent any "limited" or "protracted" nuclear wars and to take real disarmament measures. There has been no response from them to the proposal of the Mongolian People's Republic for the adoption by the United Nations of a declaration on the right of peoples to peace. 134.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Washington now proclaims its readiness for "constructive talks with the Soviet Union" since "America has restored its power." Yet, in practice, the United States not only fails to put forward its own constructive proposals, but it is unwilling even to follow the good example of the Soviet Union or to heed the appeal of the United Nations and renounce the first use of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union proposes to agree that relations among States possessing nuclear weapons should be governed by certain norms and principles which would be in keeping with the vital interests of all peoples. The Soviet Union has made these peaceful principles the very basis of its foreign policy and is ready at any time to come to an agreement with the other nuclear Powers on the joint recognition of such norms and on making them binding.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“How are we to reconcile, for example, assertions of "peaceableness" with repeated statements that they have the right to deal the first nuclear strike, their intention to acquire the capacity to win a nuclear war, to acquire military superiority and to undertake "a crusade" against socialism? How are we to reconcile the statement of the President of the United States that "spheres of influence are a matter of the past" with his statement that: "Today the world is expecting leadership from America. America for its part turns its eyes to its Marine Corps"? In actual fact, how are we to reconcile the moderate tone of the words being used with the deep and irrepressible impulse to brand the Soviet Union "an outlaw" and immediately bomb it? It is only at the movies that you can play one character one day and another character the next. 133.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The course they have taken aimed at securing military supremacy over the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization, an unrestrained and across-the-board escalation of the arms race, power politics and diktat in international relations and, ultimately, world domination has been taken to extremes and is pushing the world towards a confrontation which in the nuclear age can mean only one thing: universal nuclear disaster. 131. This cannot be concealed by the expediency of the rhetoric of high-ranking United States officials about "peaceful intentions", which does not contain the faintest sign of readiness to translate these words into deeds—all the more so when the words we hear them using are not even the same. 132.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“However, there is one problem whose solution will determine not only the progress of mankind, but its very survival. This is the problem of eliminating the danger of war and, above all eliminating the threat of a nuclear catastrophe. 129. The majority of the statements in the general debate have testified to the fact that most States, regardless of their social system, ideology or way of life, recognize the absolute priority of what is literally the task of tasks. 130. However, the course of events in the world continues to be a matter of great concern. The risk of a nuclear conflict has sharply increased as a result of the policies and actions of the United States and some of its closest allies.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The delegation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Re-public wishes to congratulate you, Sir, upon your election to the important post of President of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly and wishes you success in the discharge of your responsible functions, which you have assumed in the year of the twentieth anniversary of the independence of Zambia and its entry : the United Nations. 128. The near universality of the United Nations, which now has 159 Members, and the content of the items on its agenda impose upon the Organization the task of working on the basis of strict observance of the Charter of the United Nations for the solution of urgent problems such as international disarmament and security, total decolonization, economic and social progress, and the maintenance of the international rule of law.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“We say this on behalf of a people which lost one fourth of its population and over half of its national wealth in the Second World War; a people which has increased the industrial potential of its republic 33 times in the post-war years as a result of its peaceful, creative work, as compared to the pre-war level, and which is successfully carrying out a programme of economic and social development for the benefit of the working people; a people which is waging an active struggle for peace and taking part in the anti-missile and anti-war movement; a people which gave us the mandate to fight for peace, detente, disarmament and broader co-operation among States; a people which is ready in any circumstances to defend its socialist achievements against any aggressive encroachments or designs. 93.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, which at the beginning of 1984 will celebrate the sixty-fifth anniversary of its foundation and in the middle of the year will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of its territory from the German fascist invaders, is determined to join in the efforts of all peace-loving nations to preserve and strengthen peace on earth, to prevent nuclear catastrophe, to achieve a real breakthrough in disarmament, to improve radically the international situation and to solve all existing problems by political means, through negotiation, on the basis of respect for the sovereign rights and legitimate interests of all peoples. 92.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In our view, both the previous and the New Delhi documents of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, regardless of what may be said about them on behalf of the United States from this rostrum, are permeated with concern for peace and co-operation and reaffirm the anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist nature of the Non- Aligned Movement. They open up meaningful opportunities for further concerted efforts on the part of all forces of peace and progress to solve key problems of world politics. 91.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR that "in our time it is precisely socialism that acts as the most consistent defender of sound elements in international relations, of the interests of peace and detente, of the interests of every people and of the whole of mankind". 90. We greatly appreciate also the position of non- aligned countries and together with them flatly reject the allegation of the United States Department of State that the Seventh Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at New Delhi, adopted a declaration which "fails to reflect the principles of non- alignment".”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“A programme of concrete steps to achieve these goals is contained in the proposals of the socialist States set forth in the Political Declaration adopted by the Political Consultative Committee of the States Parties to the Warsaw Treaty at Prague in January 1983 and in the joint statement issued in Moscow on 28 June at the meeting of State and party leaders of the countries of the socialist community, as well as in the specific proposals submitted by the socialist States to the General Assembly for its consideration at this session. All these proposals confirm the statement by Mr.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“That is why it is essential for peace-loving peoples to step up their efforts to reconcile the course of international developments with the Charter by abiding by it rather than undermining it, in order to respond to the aspirations of the peoples of the world to peace, disarmament, co-operation and social justice.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Thus, no matter what aspect of United States policy we turn our attention to, it is perfectly clear that the present United States Administration is opposed to the Charter of the United Nations and the good name of this Organization. It is opposed to most States of the world and to the international community as a whole. It is ignoring the warning of the first President of the United States that a nation which indulges an habitual hatred towards another is a slave to its animosity. Surely that is dangerous to the cause of peace and co-operation. 89.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Our position on economic problems is predicated on the need to restructure international economic relations on a just, equitable and democratic basis. We are actively fighting imperialist policies which result in the loss by developing nations of more than $200 billion annually through the outflow of capital and profits, debt servicing and inequitable terms of trade. 87. As to the fight against international terrorism, it is appropriate to point out that it is in fact the United States which is doing all it can to support and install dictatorial militarist regimes in various areas, arming mercenaries and sending them to fight against national liberation movements, blocking the preparation of a convention against mercenarism and taking a direct part in repressive military actions in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. 88.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is oppressing its non-white population and, together with other neo- colonialists, is working to resist the wills of other peoples fighting for their freedom, independence and independent development. 85. The United States is rejecting the demands of socialist and developing countries for a restructuring of international economic relations on a just and democratic basis, blocking the launching of global negotiations in the United Nations on economic problems and grossly disrupting mutually beneficial ties between States. The United States is trying to bring high-handed economic and political pressure to bear on the socialist States by declaring a crusade against them. It is also threatening the developing nations which have chosen a progressive path of development. 86.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is well known that in recent years the United States has made ceaseless efforts to pose as the champion of human rights, a paragon of freedom and democracy and a fighter against international terrorism. The hypocrisy of such claims is self-evident. The United States is not a party to the international covenants on human rights or other basic international legal instruments on human rights and the struggle against racism and apartheid. It is boycotting the efforts of the international community in this area, and that is borne out by its refusal to attend the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. The United States continues to harbour Nazi war criminals.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The United States is also aggravating the situation in Central America and the Caribbean by interfering in the internal affairs of the countries of that region in a cavalier and flagrant manner. Using military threats and pressure, it is trying to deny to the peoples of that region their right to lead a life of their own choosing. The United States is resisting the constructive efforts of those Latin American countries which are anxious to help in seeking mutually acceptable solutions. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, is supporting those efforts and the constructive proposals of Nicaragua and Cuba. The principles of a settlement which they have put forward constitute a good basis for agreement without prejudice to anyone's interests. 84.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In Africa, too, a policy of crude neo-colonialism is being pursued. 81. The same thing is happening in Micronesia, which the United States :s attempting to annex in order to turn it into a militarily strategic springboard, and in Puerto Rico, whose people is being denied the right to self- determination and independence. The same course is being followed by England in the South Atlantic, where it is turning the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands into a military outpost and engaging in colonial piracy in that part of the world. 82. The peoples of the Middle East and Africa are striving to establish nuclear-weapon-free zones in those areas while the United States is co-operating with Israel and South Africa in their plans to develop their own nuclear weapons. 83.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The report prepared by the Secretary-General after his visit to southern Africa permits the conclusion that the main reason why the South African regime so brazenly disregards United Nations demands to grant independence to Namibia is indeed the comprehensive support which the racist regime in Pretoria receives from the United States. The most recent example of neo- colonialist schemes in Africa is the armed interference of imperialist forces in Chad, inspired and encouraged by the United States and involving other countries, including African countries, in these criminal actions; and there have been military provocations against Libya, continuing interference in the internal affairs of many African countries and military, political and economic pressure brought to bear upon them.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is planning to deploy neutron weapons in the southern part of the Korean peninsula and is doing everything it can to impede the peaceful, democratic reunification of Korea free of any outside interference. 80. Let us now look at the problems of Africa. There the United States has proclaimed itself the "historical ally" of the racist regime of South Africa and, moreover, is now pursuing a policy of so-called constructive cooperation with that regime. As a result, decisions of the United Nations, including those of its Security Council, on the struggle against apartheid and on the granting of genuine independence to Namibia under the leadership of SWAPO remain unimplemented. In fact the United States has been acting as an accomplice in the continuing aggressive actions against Angola and other African countries.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Such a policy constitutes an attempt to persuade people to forget the lessons of the past. United States politicians are inviting the States of ASEAN to violate its charter and transform itself from an organ of peaceful co-operation among its member countries to an instrument of interference in the affairs of its neighbours, Viet Nam, Laos and Kampuchea, which are now engaged in building a new life in keeping with the will of their peoples. The efforts of the United States to destabilize the situation both inside and around Afghanistan are also well known. The United States has not withdrawn its forces from South Korea but is carrying out provocative manoeuvres there, using South Korean aircraft for intelligence purposes against the USSR.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The countries of Indo-China advocate the establishment of a zone of peace and stability in South-East Asia. Afghanistan is striving for a political settlement in South-West Asia, defending its freedom and independence and supporting the mediation efforts of the personal representative of the Secretary-General to settle the problem of this region on the basis of a cessation of armed or any other kind of interference in the internal affairs of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, with guarantees against any renewal of such interference. 79. On the other hand, the United States is harnessing the countries of this region to its military-strategic plans. For example, Japan has already been assigned the role of "unsinkable aircraft carrier", although under its own constitution it is supposed to be a peace-loving and not a militaristic State.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The United States, having unilaterally suspended the Soviet-American negotiations on the limitation and reduction of military activities in the Indian Ocean, is escalating its military activities both in the Indian Ocean and in other maritime areas, consolidating its Diego Garcia base, hindering the convening of a conference to transform the Indian Ocean into a zone of peace and attempting to undermine the very notion of a zone of peace. 78. In Asia and the Far East, the Soviet Union and other peace-loving countries support the idea of negotiations to reach agreement on confidence-building measures. The Mongolian People's Republic has proposed the drafting and conclusion of a convention on mutual non-aggression and the non-use of force in relations between the Asian and Pacific States.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Seeking as it does an overall reduction in tensions across the seas and oceans, the USSR has proposed, among other things, that naval activities be restricted on a mutual basis, that naval armaments be limited and reduced, that Soviet and United States missile-carrying submarines be withdrawn from their present vast combat patrol zones and that their navigation range be limited by mutually agreed lines, and that confidence-building measures be extended to the sea and ocean areas; that is, the USSR is working towards transforming the largest part of the world's oceans into a zone of peace. 77.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is arbitrarily, without the consent of the 19 States concerned, busy setting up the CENTCOM command, assigning to it policing functions, including direct military intervention in the internal affairs of others. It is also engaged in demonstrations of military might through the rapid deployment force. 75. As for the Indian Ocean, the Soviet Union has consistently supported the efforts of the States of that region to prepare for and hold an international conference to reach agreement on the creation of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean, and it is in favour of the return of the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. 76.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In the Persian Gulf area, the Soviet Union is proposing that the threat of war be eliminated, that a climate of stability and tranquillity be ensured, that foreign military bases not be established, that no nuclear or any other kind of weapon of mass destruction be deployed, that there be no resort to the use or threat of force against the countries of that region, that the non-aligned status chosen by the Persian Gulf States be respected, that guarantees be provided for the sovereign rights of those States and for the security of the maritime and other communications linking the region with the rest of the world, and that an international agreement to these ends be concluded. 74. And what is the United States doing there?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The United States has been supporting Israel's aggressive actions against the Arab peoples, defending it in the Security Council against the wrath and the just demands of the international community. As for the PLO, the United States has no other words for it but torrents of malicious insults. The United States not only has been evading a comprehensive and just settlement in the Middle East but also—at the very time of the International Conference on the Question of Palestine, which it sabotaged—proceeded to overt military actions against the Lebanese, thus making a mockery of its promise to protect them. 73.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“They have proposed the convening of an international conference on the Middle East with the participation of all the parties concerned, including the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO]. 72. And what is the United States doing about the Middle East problem? It is engaged in "strategic cooperation" with the Israeli aggressors, supplying them with modern weapons. It is the United States that nurtured this militaristic State in the Middle East. As a result, Israel's military expenditures amount to 62 per cent of its gross national product, while its external indebtedness exceeds its annual gross national product.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is well known that the socialist, Arab, non-aligned and many other States are demanding that Israeli troops be withdrawn from all the Arab territories occupied since 1967 and are working towards the achievement of a Middle East settlement through political means, ensuring security for all the States and peoples of the region, providing for the exercise of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to statehood and restoring the independence and territorial integrity of Lebanon through the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli occupiers from Lebanese soil and the withdrawal of United States and other NATO forces from that country. Socialist and non- aligned States took part in the regional conferences and, in August-September, in the International Conference on the Question of Palestine.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The Soviet Union is striving to achieve implementation of the United Nations resolutions on the question of Cyprus and has proposed the convening for this purpose of a representative international conference within the framework of the United Nations, while the United States is blocking the settlement of the situation in Cyprus by opposing the demilitarization of Cyprus and attempting to impose on its people NATO-inspired terms that are incompatible with the independence, territorial integrity and non-aligned policy of that country. 71. Let us now turn to another flashpoint on our planet, the long-suffering Middle East.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“We see that while the Soviet Union is proposing that the Mediterranean be turned into a zone of stable peace and co-operation, that all ships carrying nuclear weapons be withdrawn from that area and that the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of non-nuclear Mediterranean countries be renounced, the United States is opposing these measures. 70.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Our conviction is based on the success of the Madrid meeting of the States participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, where, despite all the tensions in Europe and throughout the world, States with differing social systems still succeeded in finding mutually acceptable agreements on the basis of the principles and provisions of the Helsinki Final Act including agreement to convene the Conference on Confidence- and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. 68. Now let us, in our imagination, turn from continental Europe to other parts of the world. 69.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“That proposal, containing qualitative and quantitative limitations, is addressed to all the nuclear Powers, but the Soviet Union believes that it is possible that initially the United States and the Soviet Union can set a good example for others to follow with an appropriate agreement to freeze their nuclear potentials. 67. We believe that these proposals will enjoy very wide support among States Members of the United Nations. We can and we undoubtedly must solve these problems.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Nor can it be denied that if we are seeking nuclear disarmament—and no one dares to challenge that goal openly—then we should start by freezing nuclear weapons and halting, under appropriate verification, the build-up of all components of nuclear arsenals, including all kinds of delivery vehicles and warheads, renouncing the deployment of new kinds and types of such weapons, declaring a moratorium on all nuclear-weapon tests as well as tests of new kinds and types of delivery vehicles, and halting the production of fissionable materials for manufacturing nuclear weapons. 66.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“These proposals are a logical extension of the efforts undertaken within the United Nations to save the peoples of the world from the threat of nuclear war. 64. As far back as 1981 the United Nations adopted a Declaration on the Prevention of Nuclear Catastrophe. One year later it endorsed the unilaterally assumed obligation of the Soviet Union not to be the first to use nuclear weapons and called upon the other nuclear Powers to follow suit. Now the time has come to adopt a declaration condemning nuclear war as the most hideous crime against the peoples and declaring as criminal acts the formulation, propounding, dissemination and propaganda of political and military doctrines and concepts intended to justify the "legitimacy" of the first use of nuclear weapons and in general the "admissibility" of unleashing nuclear war. 65.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“They include disruption of Soviet-American talks on banning anti-satellite weapons, opposition to launching talks in the Committee on Disarmament on the prohibition of the placement in outer space of weapons of any kind, the refusal to assume the obligation not to be the first to place anti-satellite weapons in outer space and, at the same time, the implementation of military programmes in outer space and the announcement of a militaristic "star wars" programme. 62. In concluding this part of its statement, devoted to the limitation of the arms race and to disarmament, the delegation of the Byelorussian SSR stresses most emphatically the importance and timeliness of the new proposals to condemn nuclear war and to freeze nuclear arms , submitted by the Soviet Union to the thirty-eighth session. 63.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The current session has before it a draft treaty on the prohibition of the use of force in outer space and from space against the Earth It has been proposed that agreement should be reached on a comprehensive ban on the testing and deployment of any space-based weapons capable of destroying targets on Earth, in the atmosphere or in outer space, on the elimination of existing anti-satellite systems and on the prohibition of the development of new ones. Meanwhile the USSR has unilaterally assumed the extremely important obligation not to be the first to place any kind of anti-satellite weapons in outer space. 61. What about the position and actions of the United States?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)